Raising Organizational Resilience Through Leaders and Employees Who Can Bounce Forward
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Research has shown that high levels of resilience can deliver valuable outcomes for organizations, helping employees recover faster from difficulties, reduce stress, improve job performance, and sustain higher levels of wellbeing. Leaders and employees alike must learn skills to be able to thrive in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world. This session presents a model of resilience that supports in recovering from setbacks and tools for bouncing forward to higher levels of success. Resilience is a way of thinking and not a fixed trait that is 'hard wired' in us. Just like a muscle, we can practice and strengthen our patterns of thinking and behaviors.
This session introduces 8 validated components of resilience. The focus is on strengthening overall wellbeing and adaptability, which drives innovative solutions and better business results. The program also provides tools and techniques for building resilient organizational cultures and teams.
Learning Objectives: Explain the benefits of increased resilience for individuals, teams and organizations.State the eight validated components of resilience.Apply a model of resilience to help teams recover from setbacks and bounce forward to higher levels.Identify your organization's resilience strengths and how to enhance areas for development.Apply tools and techniques to increase adaptability and ingenuity.Apply tips to build a resilient organizational culture and teams.
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Giselle Kovary
Giselle is the Practice Lead in Optimus SBR’s Learning & Development Group with over 25 years experience as a sought after resource to industry leaders across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors dedicated to building strategies and programs that help clients target, motivate and engage employees in order to increase performance and productivity.
Giselle has devoted more than 20 years to researching the impact that generational differences have on organizational performance, creating solutions and programs in four areas – leadership, high performance teams, early career talent, and reinforcement & sustainment of learning. Giselle has co-authored two books and completed her Master of Arts Degree in Communications Studies at the University of Windsor.
She is Chair of the Board at The Institute for Performance and Learning (I4PL), co-chair of the Cross Academy Association and Advisory Council member at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.