In Tomorrowmind, Dr. Rosen Kellerman & Dr. Martin Seligman tell us:
“Individuals and organizations with higher levels of resilience are happier, healthier, and more successful… Firms with higher levels of workforce resilience see 320% more year-over-year growth than those with lower levels. Hundreds of studies show psychological resilience can be taught.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic offered an object lesson in workforce resilience. In an effort to quantify this advantage, in the spring of 2022 we examined financial returns from the companies we work with and compared those with their population resilience scores. Companies whose workforce had the highest average resilience scores demonstrated 42% higher return on assets and 3.7x higher annual return on equity. “
“We found that, from an organizational perspective, resilient leaders are the gift that keeps on giving. Employees who report to resilient leaders are themselves nearly three times as resilient as others. They’re 50% less burned out than employees whose leaders are not resilient. Teams with resilient leaders were 30% more productive. These teams were more innovative and cognitively agile, too.”
Again, employees who report to resilient leaders are nearly three times as resilient, 50% less burned out, and 30% more productive.
Let’s model the way and lead by example, whether we are leaders with or without a title, by dialing in the five factors of resilience: cognitive agility, emotional regulation, optimism, self-efficacy, and self-compassion.
