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Ask The Expert : I don’t see eye to eye with my manager, can you offer some resilience tips?

By Amanda Furness | 27 August 2014

This ask the expert article offers some food for thought and resilience tips to our reader who is worried they may not see eye to eye with a future boss’s management style.

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Building Resilience Among Workers – HR Magazine

By Jan Lawrence | 08 January 2014

An article by Peter Crush: Building Resilience among workers in the economic upturn   This article in the  HR Magazine debates whether “Resilience” is just the latest buzzword in Human Resources and questions whether we should be focusing on resilience in teams at work or at the individual level. Director of In Equilibrium, Alastair Taylor…

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Resilience at Work: Taking Responsibility

By Jan Lawrence | 29 August 2013

Taking responsibility for the choices you make is a key area of resilience. If you have too much work, it’s really your responsibility to let your boss know you have too much work, or to let your manager know. If you don’t and you miss your deadlines, it’s going to affect the way they perceive you, and that…

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Resilience at Work: Setting Boundaries

By Jan Lawrence | 22 August 2013

Another part of resilience is setting boundaries. It is important to take responsibility for setting boundaries around your workload. That means you may need to have a conversation with your manager.

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Defining Resilience

By Jan Lawrence | 19 May 2013

  We have created a short animated video describing resilience and providing a definition of resilience. Just a bit of fun really, but let us know if you like it and we will do some more! Defining Resilience Stay Calm Under Pressure Absorb High Levels of Adversity Bounce Back from Setbacks Recover Quickly from Problems Maintain…

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Resilient Skills for Public Sector Managers Leading Change

By Jan Lawrence | 28 February 2013

Background Local authorities and partners are being asked to increase their productivity by doing more with less funding. Councils face an unprecedented period of declining resources and growing demands for their services. New ways of delivering services, different relationships with partner organisations, a range of responsibilities without boundaries and tighter time-frames mean that those tasked…

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Ask The Expert : Redundancies are looming, how can I stop worrying that it may be me?

By Amanda Furness | 27 August 2012

Question My company have announced that they are going to be making 70 people redundant within the next year.  We have not been told who is going to be made redundant or the dates it may happen.  I am very worried and think about it all the time.  It has got to the point where…

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Resiliency Training Extract: Locus of Control

By Jan Lawrence | 18 January 2012

A short article about the differences between internal and external locus of control. This is an extract from our resiliency training

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Stress, Resilience and Wellbeing Hints and Tips

By Jan Lawrence | 09 June 2011

Don’t forget we have lots of resources on our website in addition to our in-house training course details. You can view a selection of our stress tips, resilience tips and more general tips here.  Most of them are short, sweet and don’t require too much brain power…… if you have any hints or tips you would…

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Saying no assertively at work

By Jan Lawrence | 19 May 2011

“There are now six people in my department but the workload expected of us is at the same level as when eight people were employed.”… View our latest “Ask the Expert” article on how to say ‘no’ here …

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