Resilience and Wellbeing

Learn from Experiences

  • Take advice from an expert. Use Practical Tips: Caring For Your and Your Team’s Wellbeing as a checklist and identify a few actions you will take to benefit yourself and your team.
  • Develop and implement an action plan. Gain ideas from Seligman’s PERMA framework which provides an accessible tool for reflecting upon and best practices. Reflect on the descriptions, recommendations and questions presented to create an action plan that will work for you.
  • Show gratitude today and every day. Proactively seek opportunities to say thank you, notice what is working well, reinforce positive behavior and performance. Find inspiration to get started by reading "7 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude.
  • Go from "mind full" to mindful with free access to HeadspaceFind calmness, wellness, and balance in your life with this app’s guided meditation and mindfulness techniques for daytime use. The app builds personalized plans based on a little input from You can learn the essentials of meditation and build from there.

Learn from Others

  • Use cognitive reframing to change the way you look at something and as a result, your experience of it.  Meet with a trusted colleague or mentor to talk through a stressful event or a difficult challenge you are facing. Discuss and try out these techniques which can be simple and easy, especially with practice.
  • Meet with a trusted colleague and discuss the Center for Creative Leadership's article, "How to Increase Your Resilience as a Leader," to develop an action plan for improving your resilience. Ask your colleague to serve as a coach to you as you implement your action plan. 
  • Explore why you may have a hard time asking others for help. Read the article, "More of us need help. Why is it so hard to ask for, and how can we make it easier?" and discuss it with a mentor or trusted colleague.

Learn from Experts