Ep 204: Resilience – it’s not the answer to everything!

The topic of the month over on WorkLifeSpark, our online personal development community, is resilience. So for the next couple of episodes, we’re going to take a look at this concept. In particular, why it’s not the panacea or answer to all organisational problems.

In this first episode, we look at resilience from the organisational perspective, and how it often gets over-emphasised and how. If “you need to be resilient to work here” is the pervading message, what does this do to employee behaviour, performance and wellbeing? What message does it send out to prospective employees? And what behaviours will be accepted in the name of ‘resilience’?

In the next episode, we’ll look at the employee perspective and explain why often, personal resilience just isn’t enough.

Thanks for listening!

Resources for this episode

• Self-care: what is it and why does it matter? https://www.worklifepsych.com/self-care-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter/
• Resilience: when all you have is a hammer https://www.worklifepsych.com/resilience-when-all-you-have-is-a-hammer/
• Resilience: prevention is better than cure https://www.worklifepsych.com/resilience-prevention-is-better-than-cure/
• Ep 043: You don’t have to be resilient to work here – but it helps! https://www.worklifepsych.com/podcast/ep-043-you-dont-have-to-be-resilient-to-work-here-but-it-helps/
• Our working definition of resilience comes from Michael Neenan’s book, which you can find here: https://www.routledge.com/Developing-Resilience-A-Cognitive-Behavioural-Approach/Neenan/p/book/9780415792912

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