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.
This tool can help develop an accommodation or work plan when psychological, emotional, cognitive or physical challenges may be impacting an employee. It’s not a medical approach; it’s intended as a discussion between the employee and their leader.
Learn how to relax and reduce stress in this four-part series. These videos can be viewed with a headset while sitting at a desk.
This team-building activity can help develop shared and reasonable expectations for quality of work.
A team building activity about improving effectiveness and reducing negative emotions in the workplace.
These team-building activities can help improve team effectiveness. Leaders and team members can learn how to resolve issues and support each other.
Learn strategies you can put in place to protect the mental health of isolated workers.