Resilience is generally conceptualised as bouncing back from adversity or challenge. At PeopleWise, we firmly believe that bouncing back is not enough. We believe that people have the capacity to bounce forwards from adversity, enabling them to grow and develop through their experiences.
Dr Belinda Board and colleagues have developed the concept of ‘positive resilience’. Positive resilience comprises 5 key factors that provide the capacity for individuals and organisations to gain sustainable competitive advantage.
As a key note speaker at a recent conference, Belinda proposed the need for individuals and organisations to be: increasingly agile; able to manage increasingly complex environments; and to anticipate, adapt and grow, if they are to thrive and not just survive.
