When things go wrong, it’s resilience that gets you through the hard times.

What’s more, is that it will make you even stronger than you were before. Resilience in the workplace allows professionals to have a clear view of stressful situations and work more effectively and efficiently. Therefore, resilience is essential for success.

What is resilience?

Resilience is a mental reservoir of strength that people use to cope with stress and hardship. It is that indescribable quality that allows some people to get knocked down by life, but then come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, resilient people find a way to get back up again.

However, resilience isn’t about breezing through life’s many challenges unscathed. Instead, it’s about experiencing all the negative, difficult, and distressing events, but staying on task, optimistic, and high-functioning. In fact, developing resilience requires emotional distress. If we didn’t run into challenges in the first place, we wouldn’t have the chance to build resilience.

Why do we need it?

When you have resilience, not only does it help you survive in the face of challenges, but it can help you thrive too. With resilience, you will remain calm and collected against looming deadlines, volatile meetings, and turbulent changes. Moreover, you will be able to turn potential disasters into growth opportunities. Resilience through stressful situations and rapid changes determines your success or failure in the workplace, even more than experience or training.

Building your own resilience

Learning to build resilience can help you feel stronger and make problems easier to deal with. You might still feel stressed at times, but it’s how you deal with it that counts. The good news is, anyone can improve their resilience with a bit of effort.

There are plenty of things you can do to develop your own resilience. These include:

• Look after your health and wellbeing
• Keep trying things that are challenging
• Learn from your mistakes
• Accept that change happens
• Accept that negative things happen
• Find healthy things that can help you feel calm
• Ask for help when you need it
• Talk to someone
• Look for the positives in a situation
• Think positive thoughts about yourself and your abilities
• View yourself as a fighter rather than a victim
• Make realistic plans and stick to them
• Improve your communication skills
• Improve your problem-solving skills
• Have high emotional intelligence and manage emotions effectively

By dealing with challenges, you can learn resilience and find inner strength that you didn’t know you had.

Enhance your professional development skills with live online courses at Odyssey Training. Our full-day online professional development courses are recorded live, which means that you can interact with our trainer or facilitator throughout the day. 

There are many stressors in this modern world that can lead to low levels of resilience. If you don’t learn how to cope with your stressors, this can impact your wellbeing and focus at work. Resilience and Stress Management 1-day course will provide you with practical tools and techniques to help you identify your stressors and build your resilience. This course is available in-class training as well as in live online format.