Preparing for the Worst: An Interactive Session on Building Resilience for Ourselves and our Teams
Economic downturn. Layoffs. International wars. Post pandemic hybrid work. It is more critical than ever to build up resilience for ourselves and our employees. In this interactive session we’ll highlight the latest data from SHRM and Rising Team about resilience, and then learn about three types of resilience - cognitive, physical, and social. We’ll take stock of our own current resilience status and aggregate data from across the group. Then we’ll learn three resilience-building techniques—Mood Shifters, Re-framers, and Activators—and practice some specific techniques together. You’ll leave with clear, actionable ideas to take back to your company, and if you stay to the end, you’ll receive a special bonus to bring back to use with your team, only available to session participants!
Attendees will:
- Complete your own personal Resilience Exercise and rate your current resilience along different dimensions.
- Learn about three different types of resilience-building exercises to do with your teams.
- Practice specific examples of each type of resilience-builder.
- Foster connection to SHRM peers by sharing personal experiences and brainstorming ideas to take home to your teams.
- Develop concrete next steps to help your employees build resilience.
- Get a free Resilience exercise to run with your own team.
Jennifer Dulski
Jennifer Dulski has 20+ years of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO and president roles at early stage and scaling startups. She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a talent development platform that improves employee engagement and scales talent development with software that equips managers to run deeply connecting, interactive team sessions without an outside facilitator.
Her lifelong passion is centered around empowering people to reach their full potential. From a very early age she was focused on bringing out the best in others, from her time as a crew coxswain to teaching high school and founding and leading a Breakthrough program to help motivated students be the first in their families to go to college. In addition to her role at Rising Team, she currently teaches management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, serves on the boards of Weight Watchers and Arcadia, and writes about leadership and the future of work as a LinkedIn Influencer. Dulski’s first book, Purposeful, about how each of us can be movement starters, is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
Erica Young, MPS, SHRM-SCP
Erica started her career designing and facilitating training for social impact organizations. She quickly realized her calling: arming organizations with the capability needed to evolve. Since joining SHRM four years ago, Erica has held three roles. She began her career at SHRM in Research, then moved onto the founding SHRMLabs team. SHRMLabs explores the intersection of work and technology. Now, Erica oversees the enterprise client experience as the Manager of Solution Architecture.
Erica holds a master’s degree in industrial/Organizational Psychology, with a focus in instructional systems design. She earned her SHRM-SCP and consistently speaks on behalf of SHRM on workplace tech, the future of work, DEIB, and upskilling. Outside of work, you can find Erica tending to her indoor and outdoor garden, and giving her cat, Suki, more attention than she wants.