Personal Resilience
Personal Resilience for Stress Management
Building personal resilience is key for stress management
Resilience can be thought of as our ability to bounce back, or even grow, in the face of pressures and threats.
"The ability to withstand adverse events and stressful situations without falling apart, by actively and positively coping with stress" (Stein and Book)
More and more research shows that the stronger your personal resilience, the better equipped you are to handle pressure and reduce stress. Rather than offer stress management training organisations need to consider carrying out personal resilience training. We can offer you a solution – look here.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” (Viktor Frankl)
The Six Components of Personal Resilience
We believe there are six key components which are used by those with strong personal resilience. Each of these can be developed and our training programme provides a number of tools and techniques to achieve this.
Sense of purpose
Having a meaningful life – know what you want – what you are doing and why – your aims and ambitions
Positive realism
Think positively – generate positive thoughts and feelings – “glass half full” attitude – be realistic – know what is achievable – be sensible about what can be done
Relationships
Having a support network – how you relate to others – can you reach out to people to ask for help, to offer help?
Determination yet open-minded and flexible
Degree of perseverance – finishing what you have started – ability to tackle problems – don’t give up – willing to learn from others – look at other ways of dealing with things
Self-Awareness
How well you know yourself – your responses and reactions –accepting responsibility for yourself and your actions – knowing what is in your control and what isn’t - habits (do you live in present and future, or the past?)
Self-management –self-reliance
Managing yourself, your time – getting work-life balance right – health and lifestyle – taking responsibility
To find out more see the article - "The Components of Personal Resilience".
“When people feel strong and resilient – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually they perform better, with more passion, for longer. They win, their families win and the corporations that employ them win.” (Loehr and Schwartz)
As part of your journey to improve personal resilience a key step is to identify what things drain resilience. When confronted with too many pressures we can find our ability to handle them resiliently is not as great as we thought! This is because our personal resilience can be eroded by on-going pressures. To find out more about how we can help you with this, look at our “Building Personal Resilience” solution