Resilience as a dynamic Process, Predictors for Retention – Impact of chronic Stressors
Organisations are a matrix of human relationships and interaction, the functionality of which is underpinned by resilience. Individual resilience levels directly correlate to team and organisational resilience and sustained performance in the face of ongoing demands. Individual resilience is examined in this longitudinal study as a dynamic process and those with greater levels of emotional stability showed greater levels of dynamic resilience. Resilience tends to be defined as bounce-back-ability from acute events, but this study reminds us not to neglect the barely noticeable chronic stressors that will ultimately lead to the straw that broke the camel’s back. Whilst we can help you when things have gone wrong, the focus of our work should be on upstream intervention. Resilient individuals demonstrate higher levels of brain cortical activity and ability to regulate emotional response; a capacity that can be strengthened and learnt, due to the brain’s neuroplastic qualities, through the practicing of evidence- based tools. The study also found that the indicators for dynamic resilience were significant predictors for retention, an important element for organisational resilience.
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