A Recipe for Emotional Resilience
Emotional resilience has to be encouraged and nurtured. It doesn’t mean avoiding difficulties or somehow, miraculously, having a problem-free life.
Could Failure Be the Way Forward?
Being afraid of failure can motivate us, up to a point. When the fear becomes our companion it stifles initiative and creativity, saps our confidence and destroys morale. Getting over our fear of failure makes confidence and success more likely.
The 7 Habits of Highly Resilient People
You may not consider yourself highly resilient yet, but you can still use these tactics to get you through a difficult situation and to prevent the stress from getting to you.
How Resilient People Recover from Adversity
Resilient people are able to use their strengths and skills to cope and recover from problems and challenges. This free download will tell you the steps to take.
Coping – How to Know You Have Spare Capacity
Our ability to cope diminishes as pressure increases. It's a subtle process and so it's easy to miss the signs of impending burnout. Learning to monitor yourself to ensure that you have sufficient spare capacity is critical to resilience and performance under pressure
Resilience: Feel Better and Get More Done
Resilience is not something people either have. We've all surprised ourselves at some time by handling a tricky situation better than expected. We all have the ability to bounce back from adversity. Some more than others, but it can be learned and developed. What is more, small daily shifts and changes are all that is required to get things going.
Take My Resilience Survey to Focus Your Thinking
Asking the right questions about resilience can help steer you towards more helpful answers. Take my survey to help you steer a course.
The Factors that Make a Resilient Person
What contributes to personal resilience? I have recently been writing a new guide to accompany training on the topic. The key elements are: Optimism; Freedom from stress and anxiety; Individual accountability; Openness and flexibility, and Problem orientation.
Organisational and Team Resilience
Organisational resilience is achieved through planning and foresight, but the most important aspect comes back to resilient people and teams.
Think Like an Optimist – New Possibilities
There are compelling reasons in learning to think like an optimist. An optimistic thinking style is a key factor in wellbeing. These go far beyond the usual simplified ‘glass half full’ ideas or the claims of the positive thinking movement. There are now thousands of studies that attest to the value of optimism at all stages of our lives. From childhood to old age, an optimistic outlook confers all sorts of advantages.
