Article: "Seven principles of building resilience: practical ways of growing through adversity"
Download an article in pdf format on the seven principles of building resilience and what you can practically do to enhance both your and your teams’ resilience. RB Warner, "Seven principles of building resilience: practical ways of growing through adversity", People Dynamics, September 2009.
Article: "Building personal resilience"
Down load an article in pdf format on our approach to building resilience: Warner, R.B. (2007) “Staying the course: Building personal resilience for successful organizational change” The Journal of Convergence, 5, 2, 20-23
ABSTRACT
Personal resilience at work is the ability to remain task focused and productive whilst experiencing tough times. Resilience at work has many beneficial consequences, and together with change readiness activities is central to successful implementation of large scale change initiatives. Resilience is examined and it is defined as the life force to overcome adversity, heal and strive towards self actualization and flourishing. A study is described which was designed to elicit the building blocks of personal resilience, so that it can be developed and enhanced in the workplace. Training implications are considered
Brochure: " Beat stress by building your resilience"
Download our brochure in pdf format which gives details of our approach and learning outcomes
Brochure: "Building Resilience: Life after Retrenchment"
Download our brochure in pdf format which gives details of our approach and learning outcomes
Questionnaire: "Personal Resilience Questionnaire"
Download our free questionnaire in pdf format to assess your personal resilience. Its not a psychometric test and has not been validated, but will enable you to gain insight and provide information as to where you can enhance or sustain your resilience. In this way you can be on the path to live a life with more joy and zest.
Questionnaire: "What do you know about resilience?"
Download a free short questionnaire to test how much you know about resilience. The scoring key is at the end of the quiz.
Questionnaire: "Personal resilience and change readyness"
Download a free questionnaire to rate your team, function or entire organization in terms of their ability to accept and deal with change. Interpretations of the scores are given at the end of the questionnaire. This will help you gain fresh insights on their personal resilience and change readiness!
Exercises: "Developing Signature Strengths"
Download a geat list of suggestions to develop your strengths, based on the VIA Survey on Character. Included with permission of the generous authors Tayyab Rashid & Afroze Anjum.
Article: "Coping with resilience in tough times"
Download an article in pdf format on how to cope with adversity. Warner, R.B. "Coping with resilience in tough times" Management Today, February 2009, 55
Survivor Syndrome: Effects on Middle Managers in South Africa
Down load an article on the original South Afriacan research into the effects that retrenchment of colleagues has on the uneffected staff remaining in organisatins. A classic which is seldom acknowledged in South Africa and the world in general. Weisner, R., Vermeulen, L.P., Litter. C. R., "Survivor Syndrome: Effects on Middle Mangers in South Africa" SAJEMS Vol 2 (1999) No 3