We are concluding a testing year. Over and above the risks of digitalisation, polarised politics, environmental tipping points, and turbulent markets, Covid-19 is testing our communities, businesses, governments and economies. As we come to the end of this year, our team recommends that you think carefully about what you need to bounce and recover. Most […]
Resilient Mindset
A journey to flexible, resilient minds A resilient mindset appears as a simple, compelling concept. If we could just acquire such a thing – perhaps with a pill or an app – life would magically become better. A resilient mindset could solve all sorts of problems. For a critical mind, the concept is complex and […]
Webinar: Anxious… no worries
Life is constantly throwing obstacles in our way – we can call them adversity and challenges (and in 2020 life has been generous!). The question is how do we respond? Anxiety is a natural response that protects us from danger, but we cannot let it morph into constant worry. Resilience is the capacity to respond to adversity with less anxiety and more calm. Please join […]
How to Overcome Anxiety
5 Steps to be Playful in your Life He dare not come into company for fear he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gestures or speeches, or be sick; he thinks every man observeth him. Robert Burton, 1621, quotes Hippocrates describing a patient. If you are feeling a little uncertain, uneasy, anxious or worried, […]
How to Master the Top 5 Challenges Facing Leaders Today
According to a Forbes article published at the onset of the COVID pandemic, people leaders across all industries are facing similar challenges for their teams and themselves. Using the Resilience Institute’s combination of Bounce, Grow, Connect and Flow, leaders and employees alike can learn the essential skills required to thrive in an uncertain and changing […]
How to Lead and Support Remote Work
Covid-19 has catapulted us into a strange new world of work. Many of your people are working from home. The initial novelty is wearing off. Business and team leaders wrestle with how to lead and motivate. People leaders wonder how to support people, manage risk and continue learning and development. A New Reality Presents Those […]
How to beat burnout with a growth mindset
A search of “burn-out” delivers 485 million results. The term has little clinical or biological substance but it has become increasingly popular. A year ago, the World Health Organisation included “burn-out” as a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress. They agree that it is not a clinical diagnosis. First, humans do not burn out. Second, […]
How to improve virtual connection
Sustain the messy, transformative work of real connection One day last week, like many of you, I spent fifteen hours on a computer. This included four group webinars (one of which was a hundred faceless people), six Zoom meetings, and the normal transactional activity of small business. Closing my screen at 7pm, I felt strangely […]
Leadership in Crisis
Deep Leadership Skills for Leaders and Senior Teams Rarely do we encounter times when deep leadership is so critical. The world and its operating systems are thrown into a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) crucible. Leadership is deeply challenged. In time, history will create stories of who failed and who prevailed. For now, the […]