Why learning to be resilient will transform your work life

Our capacity to bounce back – from setbacks and disappointments and from times of stress and challenge – is crucial to our careers, our job satisfaction and our happiness.

We can develop and enhance our ‘bounce-backability’ by taking practical steps to:

• Understand the causes of stress – both internal and external
• Respond effectively to pressure and to prevent it developing into stress
• Move from the destructive downward cycle of unhealthy and unproductive responses to the onset of stress – by creating an upward spiral of responses that are healthy and productive
• Sustain our self-esteem and deal with ‘ontological uncertainty’ – those times when we begin to doubt ourselves and our very identity
• Manage ourselves, our emotions and our thoughts through conscious personal leadership
• Learning how to navigate through change, achieve closure in relation to events and feelings that have troubled you, and support yourself in times that are difficult and demanding is one of the most valuable skills you will ever master.

Consider these five dimensions of wellbeing at work

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