Five strategies to build workforce resilience

Resilience is a powerful preventative strategy that will increase your organization’s endurance through the uncertain times ahead of us. Beyond just surviving future disruption, companies that learn how to thrive through crisis will emerge as winners.

Organizational resilience focuses on the process of coping with—and adapting to—challenges and stressors, while positioning the organization to recover—and even grow—from such adversity. In uncertain or threatening environments, resilience is the key factor to whether an organization is able to move beyond a focus on basic survival to a focus on thriving.

BetterUp’s research shows that there is a clear, tangible advantage for individuals, teams and organizations with high levels of resilience. Our extensive dataset reveals new insights on how resilience can be reliably developed and measured—with coaching as one of the most effective known interventions for building resilience.

This guide provides a roadmap to cultivate resilience and to do so at scale, making workforce resilience an achievable goal for every organization.