MOST Analysis

Mission Statement

In some ways, the messaging around the need to be more resilient has forced people into carrying more stress and experiencing more burnout. The more you force yourself to be resilient, the more likely it is that your work/life balance will be out of kilter as well. Sure, an ability to be resilient is a good thing and a great skill to have in your kitbag, but when your whole focus is on constantly building more resilience so that you can stay upright, it’s time to stop and take a look at what you really need to focus on in your life. This module focuses on pulling back the curtains on resilience so you can understand what resilience really is, how much of it you actually need and then shows you how to create the simple things you can do every day to seamlessly blend your work and your life without constantly being under pressure.

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Objectives

01. What is Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
02. History of Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
03. Resilient Businesses: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
04. Resilient People: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
05. Cognitive Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
06. Physical Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
07. Emotional Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. 1 Month
08. Psychological Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
09. Social Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
10. Concepts of Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
11. Resilience Scales: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month
12. Models of Resilience: departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development. Time Allocated: 1 Month

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Strategies

01. What is Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
02. History of Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
03. Resilient Businesses: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
04. Resilient People: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
05. Cognitive Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
06. Physical Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
07. Emotional Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
08. Psychological Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
09. Social Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
10. Concepts of Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
11. Resilience Scales: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.
12. Models of Resilience: Each individual department head to undertake departmental SWOT analysis; strategy research & development.

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Tasks

01. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse What is Resilience.
02. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse History of Resilience.
03. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Resilient Businesses.
04. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Resilient People.
05. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Cognitive Resilience.
06. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Physical Resilience.
07. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Emotional Resilience.
08. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Psychological Resilience.
09. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyze Social Resilience.
10. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Concepts of Resilience.
11. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Resilience Scales.
12. Create a task on your calendar, to be completed within the next month, to analyse Models of Resilience.

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Introduction

The sixth workshop in the Simplified Wellness Program – Resilience – takes you on a deep dive into the topic of resilience so you can better understand what it truly is and the ways you can develop and use it to improve your experience of life.

Resilience is the process and result of overcoming difficult or demanding life situations, particularly through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adaptation to internal and external challenges.

How well people adapt to adversity depends on a number of elements, the most important of which are:

• the perspectives and interactions that people have with the world;

• the quantity and caliber of social resources; and

• particular coping mechanisms

Psychological studies have shown that the resources and abilities linked to more positive adaptation – that is, more resilience – aren’t necessarily inherited, but rather can be developed and practiced.

This module takes you on a deep dive into the topic of resilience so you can better understand what it truly is and the ways you can develop and use it to improve your experience of life.

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History

Resilience first appeared as a concept in the early 17th Century, where it was developed from the Latin verb ‘resilire’ which itself gained a meaning in the English language of rebound or recoil.

The term resilience doesn’t seem to appear in any documented works until it was introduced into literature written by Thomas Tredgold in 1818, when he used the term to describe the strength of beams of timber.

In 1856, Robert Mallett then further developed the concept of resilience by applying it as a measurement in relation to the ability of particular materials to tolerate particular shocks.

Thus, resilience was first seen as a form of measurement used in engineering and construction-focused endeavors.

In the 20th Century, resilience started to be used as a measurement in new fields. Researchers started to apply resilience measures in relation to child psychology and being exposed to particular threats in the 1970s. In this application, people were assessed for their ability to recover from adversity. Those who showed a higher aptitude for being able to recover were then said to be ‘resilient’. Professor Sir Michael Rutter was one of the many researchers who was interested in a variety of risk encounters and their corresponding results.

In 1973, C.S. Holling then began to apply resilience theory through the lens of ecology, which in turn shaped his work, Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems. During this time, ecological resilience became known as a measure of the persistence of systems and of their ability to absorb change and disturbance and still maintain the same relationships between state variables.

Holling discovered that a similar framework may be used to describe various types of resilience. Later, further personal, cultural, and societal applications were drawn in using the ecosystems application.

Within the ecological system, instability to neutral systems might result from the effects of fires, changes in the forest community, or the process of fishing, in addition to the climatic events mentioned by Holling. Contrarily, stability is the capacity of a system to resume its equilibrium condition following a brief perturbation.

Ecological and social resilience, in contrast to material and mechanical resilience, emphasize the redundancy and durability of several equilibrium states to preserve function.

From this research, and the application to other personal, cultural and societal fields, the most common definition of resilience emerged and was accepted as being the successful adaptation in the face of difficulty.

Since this time, resilience research has gone through a number of stages. Psychologists started to realize that a lot of what seems to foster resilience comes from outside of the individual, after initially focusing on the ‘unflappable’ or ‘unbeatable’ child.

The quest for resilience-building elements at the individual, family, community, cultural and, more recently, at the organizational levels, resulted from this realization.

There is growing interest in resilience as a quality shared by entire organizations, communities and cultural groupings, in addition to the influences that community and culture have on resilience in individuals. The idea that resilience is a process has benefited from the discovery by modern researchers that resilience components vary in various risk scenarios.

In order to support relative resistance, researchers are also interested in how certain protective factors interact with risk factors and other protective factors. Two further ideas are resilient reintegration, which holds that overcoming hardship propels people to a higher level of development, and the idea that resilience is an intrinsic talent that just needs to be properly awakened.

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Current Position

Building resilience in organizations, and in the individuals within the organizations, is rightly earning its place as an important focal point for organization boards around the world.

Over the last few decades, organizations have started to attempt adoption of resilient practices and embed programs that assist in creating resilience in their people. However, on the whole the resilience industry has provided services at either the low-cost, generic end or at the high-cost, personalized solution end of the market.

As a relatively new concept, resilience as a topic has not been well understood within organizations, and therefore expertise relating to resilience has to be brought into the organization from external providers. With barriers to entry into most indu