Agility | Three ways to help employees build resilience during change

Everyone’s had a lot to deal with over the last year. Some of your employees will have needed support; others will have coped reasonably well.A few may even have thrived on change. But changes in the workplace still continue at pace.

On 13th July, we are hosting a webinar with Olympian Anna Hemmings on ‘The Resilient Leader’s Toolkit’ – more details are at the bottom of this article. In advance of that, here are three ways you can support the wellbeing of your employees, help them avoid change fatigue and build resilience:

1. Be available and show empathy.

In the midst of change and immediately after its impact, don’t disappear. You’ll have your own reaction as a leader, but it’s important that you don’t bury yourself in work. Even if you feel you’re available to your team as much as before the change, HR leaders need to be even more visible – particularly when we might not all be back in offices. Provide as much one-to-one time as you can to your team to ease any fears. If there’s more change planned, don’t lie, but be present and empathetic. Make the effort to really listen to your team members and try to understand what they are experiencing from their perspective.