Resilience: The ability to recover from setbacks, adapt well to change, and keep going in the face of adversity.
Its established that resilience is critical for success at work and in business. A research published in Harvard business review highlights the biggest draining areas impacting resilience.
A whopping 75% of them said that the biggest drain on their resilience reserves was “managing difficult people or office politics at work.” That was followed closely by stress brought on by overwork and by having to withstand personal criticism.
When asked where their reserves of resilience came from, fully 90% said “from myself,” a little over 50% said “from my relationships,” and barely 10% said “from my organization.”
At the end of the day, the wellsprings of resilience are equally applicable to organizations confronting historic challenges and to individuals confronting the thousand small cuts we may be inflicting on one another every day. As Diane Coutu so eloquently explains in her luminous “How Resilience Works,” “Resilient people possess three characteristics —
a staunch acceptance of reality;
a deep belief, often buttressed by strongly held values, that life is meaningful; and
an uncanny ability to improvise.
You can bounce back from hardship with just one or two of these qualities, but you will only be truly resilient with all three. These three characteristics hold true for resilient organizations as well.…Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air. Others do not.”