Some insights into resilience, what it is and what it means. This slide set looks at resilience from the perspective of developing and building resilience within the workplace. This slide set is available as a series of Lightbulb Moments cards. These have been well received as a valuable resource in education, training and coaching. Lightbulb Moments are free to download from the Ei4Change website. http://goo.gl/qNc5qR

1. Insights into Resilience
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2. . . . the ability to recover from or adjust
easily to misfortune or change.
. . . the capability of a strained body to
recover its size and shape — to bounce
back — after being subjected to
adversity or stress.
Resilience is
(Traditional view)

3. An ability to
accept harsh reality – to take an objective view of
the situation without subjective views, denial or
emotion
find meaning in adversity – to build bridges from
an ordeal in the present to a fuller, better future
continually improvise – to put resources to
unfamiliar uses and imagining possibilities that
others don’t see
Resilience is

4. Resilience enables us to
overcome misfortune
steer through everyday challenges
pick ourselves up and move on when events take
us off course
reach out to new experiences and challenges
towards our potential

5. Resilience
leads to better psychological well-being
helps to retain a focus on what matters and
supports effective behaviour
improves efficiency and effectiveness
reduces time off work through sickness
increases happiness in work
increases happiness in home life
The benefits of resilience

6. Putting resilience to use
Viewing problems and challenges as opportunities
Learning from mistakes and failures
Succeeding despite hardships
Seeking out new and challenging experiences
Not letting anxiety and doubts become overwhelming

7. Putting resilience to use
Having a sense of humour and realistic optimism
under stress
Not feeling ashamed or depressed in the face of
failure
Transforming helplessness into power
Moving from being a victim to being a survivor

8. Resilience is less about who we are and more about
how we think
Our mind-sets directly influence and shape how we
view the world and how we view ourselves in the
world
Resilience is affected by our perception of the
situation
Resilience is a mind-set

9. Resilience relates critically to how we engage
with our environment
Response to the Environment
Environment Behaviours
Response to adversity and stress
Influencing and shaping
RESILIENCE

10. Optimism
“Optimism focuses upon how people explain their
experiences in the world.”
Professor Martin Seligman
The optimist relishes the good times and is
unmoved by the bad.
The pessimist suffers the bad times and
derives little pleasure from the good.

11. When resilience is useful
Rapid changes
Pressures to do more with less
The need to perform multiple roles, multi task
and satisfy multiple demands
Increasing pressure to achieve higher levels of
performance
Work as a part of life
Greater workplace diversity

12. When resilience is useful
Changing job descriptions
Outsourcing, downsizing
Project demands and overload
Loss of control over our work
Mergers and acquisitions — blending (and the
clash) of organisational cultures
Uncertainty about the future . . .

13. At our worst times we can become our best.
Resilience is forged through adversity,
not despite it.
The Paradox of Resilience

14. Images of Resilience
A set of 16 carefully designed and selected images drawn in an
attractive cartoon style.
The images are metaphors, representing a range of experiences
and emotions linked with the theme of ‘RESILIENCE’.
They explore different facets of resilience and its connections
with stress, change, challenge and learning.
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