Category: Resilience

Cultivating WE-silience in your organisation The challenges facing societies, businesses, and individuals are growing. Responding to them will require us to become more resilient as individuals. But this alone isn’t enough. We also need shared resilience, or ‘WE-silience’, as we call it. WE-silience means cultivating the resilience of our human systems. Of our teams, depart­ments, […]

As we approach the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to pause and reflect on all that’s been achieved, who we’ve supported, and who’s supported us. This year has been one of the most turbulent years in recent global history, with unprecedented shifts politically, environmentally and economically. Given this backdrop, we’re […]

In today’s rapidly evolving working landscape, leaders and their employees find themselves navigating a whirlwind of challenges. An accelerating rate of change. The necessity for constant business transformation. The advent of artificial intelligence, to name but a few. All are reshaping traditional leadership and employee roles, as well as the way in which teams work. […]

This article is laid out in three sections.  In the first section we share insights on the current state of transformation fatigue which is impacting people in most businesses.  In the second section we lay out a new understanding of resilience and resilience skills and how this can help unlock a new way of addressing […]

A skills-first shift in learning and development “The term ‘skills-first’ is increasingly used by a wide range of organisations across the private and public sector to describe a new approach to talent management that emphasizes a person’s skills and competencies – rather than degrees, job histories, or job titles – with regard to attracting, hiring, […]

This article was first published 5th June 23 on the global media site Make a Difference. Which resilience competencies do you have? Three resilience clusters to know about We all experience challenges at work. Your work is criticised in front of others. Your initiative is thwarted. You’ve made a mistake and a customer points it […]

Using Mindfulness to Build Resilience The building blocks of WE-silience In our previous blog post, we outlined some of the key steps needed to move from individual resilience to organisation-wide resilience, or WE-silience as we call it. It’s worth restating them here, before looking at the role mindfulness can play in building resilience. Clearly, there’s […]

Leading for WE-silience Resilience is on the radar Leaders are increasingly aware of the importance of resilience for their staff and organisations. Sustainable performance, wellbeing, and resilience often come high on the list of priorities in leadership surveys. They wish to build human-centric, organisation-wide resilience (WE-silience). But leaders often fail to put this idea into […]

Expanding Resilience from ‘I’ to ‘We’ It’s important to understand an individual’s resilience. But we also need to shift our understanding of resilience to the team and organisational levels, for three reasons: Building organisational resilience skills The key to boosting team and organisational resilience – something we call WE-silience – is to focus on habits. […]

(The 12-Four-Three Framework) We’ve developed an actionable Resilience framework In the last blog post, we suggested two key shifts for organisations: Developing resilience as a skill and shifting from individual resilience to WE-silience. In this post, we outline an actionable framework for doing this on an individual level. Many organisations have wellbeing initiatives in place. […]