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For an organisation to be successful it must identify and overcome challenges quickly. For many, this has been greatly tested with the reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on the business world.
Resilience at all levels is key to managing crisis situations such as this.
Companies will often invest in the top talent to try and improve their resilience skills - although even this doesn’t always happen. However, this investment decreases significantly when it comes to emerging talent. How many future leaders are lost because they are not developing these skills? How many individuals with huge potential never get to realise it?
The workplace is a challenging arena and a bad experience can have a lasting effect on someone who has not been prepared for it. Setbacks are inevitable, but it is how people recover and learn from them that is important.
Legendary American football coach, Don Shula, said: “Success is not forever, and failure isn’t fatal.”
Don Shula died in May at the age of 90. He holds the record for most NFL wins for a coach and had a wealth of experience to look back on. He understood the importance of resilience to failure and learning from mistakes through a long and varied career.
Yet how do we instil this ethos in an emerging generation, from the earliest possible opportunity?
By Tom Seymour, an online content writer for alterniq inspired growth.
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