Creating resilient teams

Define resilience as the process of adapting to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, and stress, and view it as a developable skill and attitude you can strengthen through practice.

Read the twelve statements of the abbreviated Nicholson McBride resilience questionnaire, honestly assess your current resilience by scoring 1–5, and use the results to guide your growth through the course.

Explore the resilient questionnaire to assess your resilience factor, score honestly on a 1–5 scale, interpret results with resilient awareness scales, and plan a follow-up re-assessment.

Commit to finding the good in every circumstance by seeking the silver lining, rerouting around obstacles, and using team strengths to overcome adversity.

Apply the silver lining exercise to build resilience by reframing upsetting experiences and identifying three positives, as shown by thinking time, time with my daughter, and a more positive outlook.

Practice gratitude daily to boost personal resilience and foster a positive mindset. Express gratitude to celebrate successes, thank others, and reinforce a daily routine that releases serotonin and dopamine.

Learn continuously to build resilience by acquiring and applying new skills, insights, and knowledge from courses, conversations, and social media, and set a personal development plan with goals.

Discover your why by identifying values, motivations, passions, and strengths, reflect through journaling, and seek trusted input, then translate it into a personal mission to build resilience.

Cultivate relationships to build personal resilience by creating a trusted, open network that offers advice, support, and new perspectives.

Reflect weekly to build personal resilience by processing events, gaining insights, and discovering new perspectives in a chosen space with questions to think about.

Explore a guided team exercise that builds psychological safety by sharing strengths, uncovering underutilized talents, and learning from mistakes, with four key questions and an action plan.

Measure psychological safety with anonymous surveys, analyze insights from results, and implement strategies to improve a safe, resilient organization, then re-measure after twelve months.

Align your team around a clear purpose to build resilience and a future-focused mindset, enabling unified action and bounce-back from setbacks.

Lead by example and cultivate mindfulness to boost resilience, reduce stress, and enhance creativity and productivity through present-moment practices and team dialogue.

Practice a mindful walk to reduce stress, increase presence, and build resilience by focusing on nature and a tree's rings, roots, bark, and the reflection that follows.

Develop resilient people to foster a resilient culture and gain a competitive advantage by building clarity, openness, psychological safety, a top-down resilience plan, and training.

Develop a resilient culture to gain a competitive advantage in uncertain times. Create a psychologically safe environment that encourages risk-taking, vulnerability, openness, trust, and learning from failure.

Reconnect with your purpose to overcome change fatigue and regain energy, motivation, and focus as you adapt to personal, professional, and company change.

Develop resilience and leadership through a nine-month mastermind group using action learning sets, hot seating, and psychometric profiling for self-awareness and accountability.