2016/2017 Global Resilience Diagnostic Report

The report provides detailed insight into resilience at all levels of the human function, as well as employee performance.

 

Of the many findings, the report shows that 55% of professionals worry excessively, 50% are hyper vigilant, 45% experience distress symptoms, 30% have impulse control problems, 35% are unable to relax, and 30% experience excessive work intensity.

 

“The research shows that the state of the modern workforce isn’t conducive to organisations being as innovative, adaptive and successful as they could be.  This is an anxious and overloaded workforce that suffers from absenteeism, presenteeism, conflict and attention loss. Resilience in an organisation works to mitigate against these issues. Fortunately resilience is proven to be a learned quality that can be taught,” said Stuart Taylor CEO of Springfox.

 

DATA HIGHLIGHTS

 

We are changing over time

 

Considerable changes occurred in our workforce from 2010 to 2016 with peoples’ levels of relaxation, fitness, intensity and impulse control declining over the six-year period. This means people are not relaxing and recovering as well as they once were. In fact, data shows a 30% reduction in our daily practice of relaxation, which is the foundation for physical, emotional and cognitive resilience. Conversely, factors including one’s connection, health awareness, biological insight, engagement and values alignment improved over time. 

 

Age matters

 

The data shows that resilience tends to increase with age, especially in the train mind category, led by focus and decisiveness. Significant life events we experience as we get older impact our levels of resilience and our ability to adapt, change, and grow. Women show most improvement during their younger and older years, whilst men between the ages of 31-50 display the highest increase in resilience.

 

Gender counts

 

The report illustrates that gender plays a role in one’s resilience levels and that men and women have different needs and solutions. Overall, male resilience ratios (2.31:1) are higher than female ratios (2.11:1) and men improve more with training. Females tend to score poorly in distress, vulnerability and withdrawn categories. Having said this, women are more engaged and positive, eat better, and score higher on EQ factors (positivity, connection, empathy, insight).

 

The CEO must lead - leadership must shape, promote and model resilience

 

The data reveals that a stress based culture typically stems from the top at the c-suite level. The most resilient organisations are those that have a leadership team that takes a systematic

 

and active approach to participating in and modelling resilience. When leadership fails to demonstrate resilience, this is reflected in the organisation at large resulting in an underperforming workforce.

 

“This highlights that it’s critical for leadership to commit themselves to practices that will lead their teams to be more resilient. Leaders drive culture, and culture drives performance,” said Mr Taylor.  

 

Resilience is not innate; it’s learnt – resilience training delivers

 

With intervention, every category and factor of resilience improves, with data showing a clear increase in resilience ratios after resilience programmes. The average improvement is 25%, with some subjects even doubling their level of resilience.

 

Global diversity

 

Resilience is globally relevant and locally distinct. While there is little difference in resilience starting points between regions, responses to resilience interventions do vary by region. The Americas have the greatest increase in resilience ratio after resilience programmes, whilst South East Asia has the lowest.

 

Download the full report here: http://bit.ly/2ml8Gok

 

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About the Resilience Delivers - Global Resilience Diagnostic Report 2016/2017

 

The Global Resilience Diagnostic Report 2016/2017 is an analysis of 26,099 Resilience Diagnostic Assessments over six years. The Resilience Diagnostic is a self-assessment tool that assesses the resilience of individuals, teams and organisations. The diagnostic measures five asset categories (resilience strengths) and six liability categories (resilience vulnerabilities). Each category is built from an average of five questions exploring people’s actions and experiences.

 

About Springfox

 

Springfox is the Australian leader in resilience. Founded in 2002 under the name of The Resilience Institute in Australia, Springfox provides evidence-based resilience programmes to individuals and organisations. The Learning Labs are delivered in five different languages on all continents. Drawing from modern preventative medicine, positive psychology, neuroscience, emotional intelligence and cognitive behaviour therapy, the training is proven to improve individuals and organisations’ resilience by an average of 25%.