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Creating & Developing Resilience

A selection of other resources that might help you create and develop your resilience

Worth a Read

The Books

What Doesn’t Kill Us: A guide to overcoming adversity and moving forward – Stephen Joseph

Big Magic: Creating living beyond fear – Elizabeth Gilbert

Option B: Facing adversity, building resilience and finding joy – Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant

Rising Strong: How the ability to reset transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead – Brené Brown

Wintering – Katherine May

Phosphorescence – Julia Baird

The Up Side of Down: Bouncing Back in Business & in Life – Megan McArdle

 

Not read but come recommended

How to Fail Fast and be Resilient at Work – Susan Kahn

The Micro-Resilience: Minor shifts for major boosts in focus, drive and energy – Bonnie St John and Allen P. Haines

Resilience: Why things bounce back – Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healey

Learned Optimism: How to change your mind and your life – Martin E.P. Seligman

Worth a Listen

A Couple of Extra Bits

Here is a short slide deck to help you take your thinking about resilience beyond just personal resilience and into your teams and thinking about you as a leader. There are prompts included, so grab your notebook and start thinking about what resilience looks like more widely at work.

When you are finding it difficult to work out what is ‘worth’ worrying about, here is a little hack to help you understand and grow your circle of influence.

Worth a watch

Great talks on resilience more generally by Lucy Hone, Denise Mai and Dr Fiona Starr & Dr Mike Solomon