How conducive is your organisational culture to facilitating resilience in your employees? Sustained organisational performance requires individuals to have recovery periods. Without recovery periods people burn out. That applies to everyone, even you! How accommodating is your organisation to supporting people in their essential recovery? Do you really empower individuals to become resilient or do you, whether knowingly or not, simply perpetuate the somewhat macho culture of ‘pushing through’, ‘Toughing it out’ or ‘getting it over the line’ time and time again? Of course there are times when some of these actions are appropriate but to continually expect these types of behaviours will leave you with an overworked and exhausted workforce. You’ll experience higher staff turnover, higher levels of absence and more mental health issues than you’d like. Resilience is about recovery In a recent Harvard Business Review article Shawn Achor wrote about ‘recovery periods’ “The lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our ability to be resilient and successful. Research has found that there is a direct correlation between lack of recovery and increased incidence of health and safety problems. Lack of recovery – whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal … Continue reading Resilience and Organisational Culture