How resilience reduces risk and lifts performance

A good business secures two organisational development objectives:
1. Reduce risksand unnecessary suffering (prevent problems and pain)
2. Raise the productivity andfulfilment of work (achieve more, enrich life)

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In August 2019 the Business Roundtable – a group of CEOs from 200 major U.S. corporations – released a statement outlining the purpose of a modern corporation. Listed above delivering shareholder value is investing in employees, including supporting them through training and education so that they develop new skills for a rapidly changing world.

The Resilience Diagnostic provides insights into the human factors that underpin physical, emotional and mental fitness. By measuring 60 human factors we understand what drives high resilience and how to model training programmes that build capability and close skill gaps. The 60 factors provide a detailed assessment of resilience which we define as a learned ability to bounce, grow, connect and flow. Our previous global reports demonstrate that an evidence-based, integral and practical solution to resilience works. Physical, emotional and mental skills can be measured and improved. Risks to people and the business can be reduced significantly. Productivity and life quality can be raised. This interim report works with a data set of 7,473 people extracted from our new, GDPR compliant platform, the Resilience App. While there have been subtle changes since 2018, there are important signals and clear evidence that interventions deliver a consistently positive result.

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