How Important Resilience Is For Me And My Co-Work

One must wonder how a person with Steve’s shocking childhood could grow into a man who is successful, not only in his career but in his personal life as well. Resilience theory is a possible explanation as to why Steve survived, despite the odds that were stacked against him. Resilience theory is a strength based approach which provides a framework that focuses on positive outcomes and not just the negative ones. The idea is that it promotes what works best while de-emphasizing psychopathology. Resilience theory defines resilience and possesses several key terms, which include protective/risk factors. Research on resilience has been valuable in directing attention toward youth who succeed in spite of high levels of stress and economic instability, as it identifies factors that can serve as protective functions which foster competence.

Resilience is about being independent, standing on your own two feet or taking back the power.

Resilience, fundamentally, is the ability to bounce back from hardship and the phenomenon of overcoming stress or adversity, for example: personal crises, poverty, mental illness and trauma (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). This skill can help individuals overcome the most difficult of situations (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). Resilience theorists generally agree that the presence of protective factors can reduce the effects of exposure to adversity. The more protective factors (or “assets”) available, the more resilient a person will be. Protective factors are conditions or attributes that help people deal more effectively with stressful events and eliminate risk. On the contrary, risk factors are attributes or characteristics

Resilience is a term that is often applied to those who have faced hardship and viewed the experience in a positive light as an opportunity to grow and change for the better (Wagnild & Collins, 2009). The definition however seems to vary from place to place. Ungar et al. (2008) stated “definitions of resilience are ambiguous when viewed across cultures" (p.174) which is why the understanding of resilience may be difficult to capture (as cited in Windle, Bennett & Noyes, 2011). Although the literature agrees on several common themes about resilience there are many varying opinions on how to define the concept or the attributing factors. Earvolino-Ramirez (2007) and

If you want to see examples of resilience, all you have to do is look at recent events. Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma, these three massive storms decimated, Houston the 4th largest city in the U.S, caused widespread damage to the state of Florida, and let’s not forget the massive destruction throughout the Caribbean Islands. The people of these areas could have just left and said enough is enough, and yes some did leave. However, a vast majority of the population of these areas has stayed a vowed to rebuild. This is what I call resilience, to stay where everything you owned is gone, there’s no power, food shortage, gas shortage, little to no water to drink. You have to agree that this is definitely resilience shown by these people, to overcome difficulties, to bounce back and recover, to never give up or give in. When giving up would be the easy way out, these people have shown true resilience staying and fighting for what you believe in. Another example of resilience, I just experienced personally within my own classroom as an automotive instructor was, when one of my student’s mother recently passed away from stage four breast cancer, the student could have just shut down and not been able to continue in class, but this student has shown great strength and character, by continuing to be in class everyday by showing real strength and courage and resilience he has been working through

In a resilience framework, protective factors, such as positive social relationships and support, and availability of prevention programs, transform the negative outcomes of risk into a more positive pathway. These protective factors may only be activated during situations of strong

Anna Harrington does a great job in this article “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way” by expressing that everyone copes with resilience and environments in different way. What is so easy for one employee to adjust to, isn’t so easy for another. Each individual person handles life and work situations differently. While some people are anxious and stressed at work, others may be more laid back and very sure of themselves in the job that they are doing.

In the article, ’How People Learn to Become Resilient’, Maria Konnikova points out that some people have ability to be resilience more than others. The author explains that how people become more resilient. Moreover, Konnikova uses many resilience research example’s to focus on personal resilience. Konnikova talks about diversity of resilience and compares to different people’s system. The author claims that people can stimulate and control negative responses in their brain. The author believes that even people might be overemphasizing the responses. In conclusion, if you become durable standing on the bad situation, you will be more resilience than before.

Resilience can be a difficult and often a seemingly impossible attribute to acquire for many people in fear of change. I have become aware of this trait developing more in myself as I get older and have made it a priority to see the benefits of change and adapt to it. Moving here to Tennessee has helped me grow more as a person. The emotional and spiritual aspects of resiliency really came into play in this situation.

Resilience is the concept to used to explain after an observation was made when some children were more ‘invulnerable’ then other children in same or similar hardships and adversities . Some were able to achieve their goals and move forward, whereas others went under. Resilience is an ability to ‘bounce back’ from adversities and it can create positive outcomes disregards the problem. Especially being resilient in health profession refers to the ability to maintain personal and professional wellbeing in the face of on going work stress and adversities. The researchers researched on resilience to find out how resilience is present in some people and whether the resilience is an innate character of the person or the result of a process of interaction with the environment. And is resilience can be taught or somehow imparted to others. After the observation was made the researchers have established the factors to establish the concept of resilience. The risk factors and the protective factors have been defined and the theory have been changed throughout the researches. By understanding the nature of the risk and

The article had quite a few good ideas pertaining to resilience in the workforce and in life in general. I found it interesting that the number one reason for absence in the workplace is due to mental health. It has been my assumption that people look down on those needing help with mental health. I just learned about a program at my own work called Lifeworks which helps with multiple things outside of work. I enjoyed reading about the key elements emotional, spiritual, social, family, and physical. I lean towards social and spiritual resilience more often. I am working on the physical aspect more so I can have a healthy body and mind (Harrington, 2012).

First of all, I would like to define what resilience is. Major scholars believe it is the process to recover from trauma, or the ability to respond to adversity. According to Sergeant and Laws-Chapman (2012), resilience refers to “the ability to adapt to adverse conditions while maintaining a sense of purpose, balance, and positive mental and

Resilience is the process of successfully adapting to various challenges or extremely threatening circumstances (Ungar et al., 2013; Ungar, Russell, & Connelly, 2014). Resilient children develop protective responses during times of uncertainty, threat, and surprise. It is an active process involving the interaction of vulnerability, risk, and protective aspects (Benard, 2004). Resilient children experience positive results in their development despite the extreme challenges they encounter (Martin, 2013).

Exploring the broader topic was done in an effort to tentatively identify a foundation or underpinning philosophy of resilience for businesses (Smith & Brookes, 2013). The objectives being; not only exploring the potential hypothesis but identifying real world improvements in organizational resilience, rather than simply a true or false finding about the observations. This remains a form of inductive theory and is one of two scientific approaches for research, the other being deductive theory (Jensen, 2010). This author originally chose this method as it is a pragmatic and valid approach which fitted the research task and worked in a logical way from the personal observations, to the exploration of the specific issues influencing the development of a tentative theory. This lead directly to a mostly qualitative narrative approach, embedded within the descriptive survey design and a range of specific questions to test and inform the validity or not of the original observations (Fischer, 2001; Jensen, 2010; Creswell & Plano Clark, 2010).

It is less than clear exactly what organizational factors lead to resilience (Vogus & Sutcliffe, 2007), but prior experience seems to be an important consideration. For example, certain small firms with previous experience coping with uncertainty and violence have been