In Tomorrowmind, Dr. Rosen Kellerman & Dr. Martin Seligman tell us:
“We looked at data from 1,800 full-time employees working to build resilience through coaching and practice on the Better Up platform. We administered our Whole Person Model (WPM) assessment, a 150-item scale, to each of them before, during, and after coaching. We then analyzed which of the 150 items most strongly contributed to the outcome of increased resilience.”
“Emotional regulation describes our ability to flexibly and productively manage our emotions – particularly negative emotions – as they boil up, in order to achieve our goals.”
“Optimism describes the tendency to feel hopeful and confident about a positive outcome in the future. Optimists tend to explain setbacks as temporary, local, and controllable.”
“Self-compassion is our ability to extend to ourselves compassion for our own suffering, failure, or perceived inadequacy. We will look at self-compassion in more detail later.”
“Cognitive agility describes our ability to mentally move back and forth among many possible scenarios before focusing in and then acting on the most promising one.”
“Self-efficacy is the belief that we can succeed in a particular endeavor. It is essentially the science of confidence”
In order of impact, the five resilience factors are emotional regulation, optimism, self-compassion, cognitive agility, and self-efficacy.
An acronym to help remember the five resilience factors is the CEOss of resilience. Can you identify any factor(s) you need to work on? Great! Could you create an implementation intention or IF-THEN plan and rock it?
Please take a look at an image of the factors here. The thickness of each “noodle” tells us how much the factor contributed to a resilient outcome for a given individual.
