Resilience
Summary: Difficult situations and challenges are bound to happen in the workplace. Resilience helps us respond to and recover from them. These free resources can help you build resilience as individuals or within a team.
For individuals
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from challenges and adapt positively to adversity. This resource is a self-reflection tool that introduces protective strategies to build resilience, enabling us to better cope with life's challenges.
For leaders
When employees show signs of emotional fatigue, consistent overwhelm, and skepticism, leaders should take action to enhance workplace conditions and prevent burnout.
For teams
Resilience for teams provides workshop materials, facilitator guides, and participant handouts, empowering leaders to effectively strengthen their team's resilience.
Resilience articles and resources
The list that follows includes the resources linked to above as well as related information that may be more specific to your current situation:
A tool to help you bounce back after a health, personal or work crisis. This resource helps you develop healthy coping strategies to deal with life's challenges.
Learn why team resilience matters at work and how to support it. You’ll see actionable resources to help you get started.
How to identify employee burnout, recognize workplace factors and take pro-active steps for prevention. These strategies can help protect overachievers and those recovering from burnout.
Try these strategies to help identify risks and to prevent burning out.
Self-employed, gig workers and independent professionals have unique stressors that need to be addressed to provide a healthy work-life balance. In consultation with independent professionals, free resources, tips and strategies are provided.
A leader’s guide for team-building activities that develop resilience, emotional intelligence and cohesion.
Free activities to increase your ability to manage your reactions and control how you impact others. Building your emotional intelligence can help reduce stress.
Most of us find it difficult to receive negative feedback. We may feel criticized, judged or blamed. Learn how to hear feedback as information about what we can do differently rather than who we are as a person.
It’s rarely, if ever, helpful to worry. Learn fact from fiction when it comes to worry.
Understand how to address chronic mental stress and how to recognize hazards. This tool provides strategies for reducing risk to protect both employers and employees.