Resilience: an essential tool to bounce back in times of crisis

The health crisis we have experienced has shaken up, and continues to shake up, our working environments. Development of teleworking, new office organizations, activities and missions that sometimes have to adapt to new unexpected constraints, etc.

In this context, resilience appears to be an essential skill to be developed, individually and collectively.

What is behind the concept of resilience?

The term “resilience” originally refers to the ability of a material to regain its initial shape after suffering an impact or compression. The psychological sense of resilience corresponds to the ability to bounce back and reinvent yourself in spite of adversity, after a trauma for example.To note : the psychological aspect of resilience was demonstrated as early as the 1950s by Anglo-Saxon researchers. They were conducting studies on stress management and the developmental capacity of children living in unfavourable social and family environments. In France, the concept of resilience began to emerge in the 1990s. The resilience process involves 3 main stages:

Absorption : this phase corresponds to the recovery of the shock, to the resistance in the face of trauma. It can start with a period of denial, which will have to be overcome in order to effectively resist the upheaval experienced.
The renewal : during this phase, the subject or subjects concerned will seek to develop new solutions to adapt to the difficulties encountered.
Apprenticeship : finally, this last phase consists in taking stock of the lessons learned from the trauma we have experienced.

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Why is resilience important now?

Now more than ever, developing resilience is essential. Indeed, this has many advantages:

Being resilient helps to face challenges, to overcome them in order to come out of them grown. The difficulties encountered become opportunities to be seized.
Resilience reduces the negative effects of trauma on mental and physical health: anxiety, stress, musculoskeletal disorders, Burn-out, etc.

Learn to manage your emotions in the very particular context of the health crisis triggered by Covid-19 thanks to our tailor-made training.The challenge is doubly important for leaders and managers. They must be able to give their teams the keys to bounce back, adapt and reinvent themselves, especially in the complicated times we are currently experiencing. Working to develop the resilience of a collective is the guarantee:

better cohesion in the face of adversity,
better mobilization of resources in critical situations,
and sustainable business performance, even under tense circumstances.

To be able to develop the resilience of a team, managers must be able to draw on numerous skills: conflict prevention and management, change management, promoting the autonomy of employees, active listening, etc.Do you want to support your managers in the prevention of psychosocial risks? Discover the Qualisocial offer of resilience training for managers, and the coaching managers to deal with new situations.

Resilience: a skill to be developed all your life

Anyone can be resilient.While resilience is a capacity that some people naturally possess, it is good to note that it can also be acquired and developed at any age, throughout their professional life.Resilience is never definitively acquired: we evolve all our lives, so the factors promoting our individual resilience can therefore also change over the years.In addition, for a collective to be resilient, add up the individual resilience of The people who make it up is not enough. Even if it's a starting point, of course. The company must work for the emergence and development of collective resilience. This collective resilience has its own mechanisms and involves in particular the sharing of strong values, which engage and empower everyone. Do you want to go deeper into the subject? Here are some additional resources: