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Resilience at Work

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Why Resilience Matters

By Jan Lawrence | 09 November 2010

  “Life is not what it’s supposed to be, it’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”  Virginia Satir Life is full of experiences of adversities.  Some of them are external such as fires, earthquakes, floods, wars, or violence.  Some of them are within the family, such as…

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Resilient Leadership Skills

By Jan Lawrence | 07 October 2010

Particular interest from Local Authorities and Councils who are embarking on programmes of organisational transformation.

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Tell me why … I don’t like Mondays

By Jan Lawrence | 28 June 2010

BBC Radio Scotland Interview with Dr David Mason Brown on Friday 21 May 2010.

The full script is now available

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Resilience – Businesses respond to change

By Jan Lawrence | 19 November 2009

Article about Resilience training in the workplace

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Training in Tough Times

By Jan Lawrence | 13 July 2009

In tough economic times, any sensible organisation will look at ways of managing costs while maintaining peak performance….If your ‘fleet’ of staff is reduced and stretched with increased workload, it’s even more important to make sure they are properly looked after…
by In Equilibrium consultant, Carol Taylor

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New Course: Developing Personal Resilience

By Jan Lawrence | 14 November 2008

Personal resilience is arguably the most important resource for coping well during stressful times

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Sustaining Healthy High Performance – GlaxoSmithKline article

By Jan Lawrence | 03 September 2008

This paper describes how an occupational health function has developed and implemented health initiatives to positively support business success and culture through focus on the sustainable healthy-high performance of the business, the teams within the business and the individuals within those teams.

Dr Adrian Chojnacki, Vice President, Employee Health Management, Mrs Susan Cruse, Director of Leadership Health and Sustainability, Dr Robert Carr, Vice President and Corporate Medical Director, GlaxoSmithKline

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Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman

By Jan Lawrence | 30 August 2008

Why is it that some people can overcome adversity and others can’t? Why are some people more prone to depression than others? How can some sales people keep going despite getting one ‘no’ after another, while some give up after the first ‘no’? This brilliant and important paperback answers these questions.

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Fund Managers Build Resilience

By Jan Lawrence | 01 January 2002

“Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from setbacks and adversity. Resilient people stay committed and increase their efforts when the going gets tough.”

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