Business Impact
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Helps team members successfully navigate daily stressors, adversity, and sudden change such as working virtually due to COVID-19.
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Increases team productivity and performance utilizing skills to handle conflict quickly.
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Enhances work culture and secures team member retention through a shared model, language, and experience of organizational resilience.
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Promotes superior customer experience by centered, connected team members focused on the health and wellbeing of themselves and others.
What I learned in the Resilience Circle is so critical for my own mental and emotional well-being. Understanding my own “go-to reactions” to events and people around me and then knowing how to quickly evaluate and center myself is so applicable to both my personal and professional relationships. I have seen how my ability to center myself in times of high-energy or high-stress times makes me a more effective leader for my team. I believe every business should invest in strengthening the resilience skills of their teams to help build a healthy, collaborative organization.
~ Vanda Davis, Senior Business Leader, Fortune 200 Technology Company
The We Are Resilient™ Approach
We Are Resilient™ offers simple, effective, and research-based skills that help managers and team members
cope with stress and access their best selves. These skills help us Center, Connect, and Collaborate.
STEP 1: Starts with Noticing our Protective Patterns
When facing a challenge, our initial response can be a common pattern of reactive resilience. These default reactions can be:
• Normal under stress
• Developed as protective mechanism
• Helpful in certain circumstances
• Limiting for us
• Assessed for each situation: Is my reaction helping or making it worse?
STEP 2: Skills for Centering Myself
When facing a challenge, we can choose our Centering Skills to mindfully engage our Personal Resilience. These skills can:
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Restore inner balance
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Relieve stress and anxiety
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Reduce negative thoughts
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Enable focus on the present
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Support pursuit of goals
STEP 3: Skills for Connecting with Others
When a relationship is experiencing difficulties, we can choose our Connecting Skills to grow our Relational Resilience. These skills can:
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Create safety, trust, and belonging
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Enable an open mind and curiosity
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Reduce blame, judgement, and bias
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Encourage equity
STEP 4: Skills for Collaborating Together
When a group is not working well together, we can choose our Collaborating Skills to strengthen Group Resilience. These skills can:
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Foster a shared vision
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Honor contributions of all
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Encourage healthy boundaries
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Create shared accountability
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Support pursuit of common goals
