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47 Min.
WE-silience
Cultivating WE-silience in your organisation The challenges facing societies, businesses, and individuals are growing. Responding to them will require us to become more resilient as individuals. But this alone isn’t enough. We also need shared resilience, or ‘WE-silience’, as we call it. WE-silience means cultivating the resilience of our human systems. Of our teams, departments,…
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Busting four myths around leadership and performance management
Leadership is becoming increasingly complex and multifaceted and has been the subject of extensive study and discussion throughout history. As society evolves and organizations adapt to ever-changing dynamics, so too do the expectations and myths surrounding leadership performance. In the realm of leadership, myths often emerge, perpetuating misconceptions about what it takes to be an…
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17 Min.
Busting five myths about individual workplace performance
Many businesses are once again focusing narrowly on profit and efficiency. As we highlighted in our previous blog post, the increased focus on workplace wellbeing and care during the pandemic has been sadly short lived. Once again, we’re seeing a shift towards a performance culture, at the expense of care for employees, as bosses force their…
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19 Min.
Performance and Care: CAREFORMANCE
Can businesses focus on performance and care, for staff wellbeing, at the same time? The business world has become addicted to performance. Over the last 30 years, thought leaders, authors, researchers, and organisations have emphasized the role of a performance-oriented culture as a vital factor for business success. Leading management thinkers such as Peter Drucker,…
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18 Min.
Resilience Competence Clusters
This article was first published 5th June 23 on the global media site Make a Difference. Which resilience competencies do you have? Three resilience clusters to know about We all experience challenges at work. Your work is criticised in front of others. Your initiative is thwarted. You’ve made a mistake and a customer points it…
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17 Min.
Mindfulness and resilience
Using Mindfulness to Build Resilience The building blocks of WE-silience In our previous blog post, we outlined some of the key steps needed to move from individual resilience to organisation-wide resilience, or WE-silience as we call it. It’s worth restating them here, before looking at the role mindfulness can play in building resilience. Clearly, there’s…
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18 Min.
Resilient Leadership
Leading for WE-silience Resilience is on the radar Leaders are increasingly aware of the importance of resilience for their staff and organisations. Sustainable performance, wellbeing, and resilience often come high on the list of priorities in leadership surveys. They wish to build human-centric, organisation-wide resilience (WE-silience). But leaders often fail to put this idea into…
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19 Min.
Understanding WE-silience
Expanding Resilience from ‘I’ to ‘We’ It’s important to understand an individual’s resilience. But we also need to shift our understanding of resilience to the team and organizational levels, for three reasons: Building organizational resilience skills The key to boosting team and organizational resilience – something we call WE-silience – is to focus on habits.…
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20 Min.
The Awaris Resilience Framework
(The 12-Four-Three Resilience Framework) We’ve developed an actionable Resilience framework In the last blog post, we suggested two key shifts for organisations: Developing resilience as a skill and shifting from individual resilience to WE-silience. In this post, we outline an actionable framework for doing this on an individual level. Many organisations have wellbeing initiatives in…
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15 Min.
From Resilience to WE-silience
From Resilience to WE-silience We live in times that call for resilience. Whether it’s adapting to climate change, the accelerating cycle of business transformation, finding calm in the midst of the attention economy, or collaborating in hybrid teams. It’s clear that leaders and employees in organisations face many challenges. Responding to these challenges will require…
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17 Min.
The Realism of Mindfulness
Abstract Mindfulness practices were not created simply to reduce stress help people focus more. Fundamentally mindfulness is about being able to examine and get used to reality as it is. So mindfulness is not something esoteric – but actually deeply realistic. Many times we are deeply unrealistic about how we or others function – and this…