6 Ways To Strengthen Organizational Resilience and Empower Your Team

Resilience is the bedrock of peak performance. It's an attribute vital for personal growth and organizational development. Resilience speaks to your ability to experience challenges and spring back. This mindset makes you look at adversities as stepping stones to success. 

Resilience is a skill that can be learned. As such, it has the transformative capacity to make you more alive and engaged - a peak performer in both life and work.

At Calix, we understand and strive every day to be a force for good for people, our customers, and our society. One of the greatest lessons we have learned regarding resilience is the power of embracing authenticity. Vulnerability is a gateway to resilience. Open communication empowers you to dive deep into yourself and identify where to improve.

Here are six ways in which you can strengthen your team's resilience and empower your employees to be the best they can be:

1. Establish an Empowering Culture
   
   An empowering culture is enshrined in a positive work environment. A positive environment gives people room to seek help. In a positive workplace, employees socialize and forge meaningful relationships, cultivating respect and trust with each other in the process. These are critical elements in developing resilience–people can quickly course-correct when things go wrong. At Calix, we invest in our employees' holistic well-being and create pathways that enhance their growth and build professional resilience. We have structured our working environment to enable people to seek help and better themselves beyond the workplace.
   
   
2. Enhance Mental Health and Well-Being
   
   Resilience is a mindset that stems out of one's wellness and kindness to self. Stress and any form of mental unwellness affect these. For this reason, supporting your employees' mental and emotional well-being is paramount. You can do this by offering resources and support for mental and emotional well-being, such as employee assistance programs and access to counseling services. This can help employees to cope with stress and build resilience.
   
   Given that a happy body breeds a happy mind, you should encourage individual responsibility in ensuring mindfulness. Remind your employees to take care of their physical and mental health through mindful practices such as meditation and yoga. Furthermore, encourage employees to take breaks, and offer self-care opportunities. Also, turn up for people in their times of need. An individual's resilience in challenging times can stem from outward help.
   
   
3. Promote Flexibility
   
   When you establish flexible schedules for your employees, you alleviate the possibilities of stress from fatigue. You also give them time to connect with their communities and, most importantly, themselves. At Calix, we have an elaborate work-life structure that enables our employees to create time for self-care and take recharge days off. These significantly boost their productivity.
   
   
4. Establish Strong Leadership at Work
   
   Leaders need to lead with purpose. This way, we gain the trust of our employees. At Calix, our strength lies in our leadership. With outstanding leadership, employees don't carry the baggage of trying to figure things out independently. This has helped us alleviate the disorienting impacts that come with lacking instruction and direction since we set a positive tone and provide a sense of direction for our team.
   
   
5. Professional Development
   
   To build a culture of resilience, providing employees with growth opportunities is paramount. Offer your employees professional development opportunities such as training, mentoring, and coaching to help them develop new skills and competencies. At Calix, learning and development opportunities have elevated our employees' skill sets. Hence, they are ever-ready to take on new challenges and pursue broader personal and professional growth opportunities. This has made them feel genuinely accomplished at work, fulfilling Calix's greatest value of knowing your purpose at work and in life.
   
   
6. Appreciation and Feedback
   
   Appreciation and feedback are integral in building resilience and enhancing goodness as they highlight an individual's strongest soft skills while pointing out areas that need strengthening and improvement. It is crucial that you appreciate the achievements of your employees. Our positive work culture at Calix directs us to celebrate individuals and teams for their successes. Every individual's work is tied to the greater good, so we get to showcase all the great work everyone puts in to make a difference. With this, we have seen a heightened motivation.
   
   
7. Acknowledging Vulnerability and Practicing Emotionality at Home
   
   Employees' well-being at home is also crucial to their resilience and goodness at work. Building one's resilience at home is heavily reliant on your level of vulnerability, feeling accepted, and an unquestionable sense of belonging. While at home, growing your resilience starts with being vulnerable with your kids. Let them know that you are imperfect and might not always have answers. Once this expectation of perfection and "super-humanness" is lifted off your shoulders, you can position yourself well to process things and react to them with utmost compassion and goodness and a stronger can-do attitude.

Cultivating Resilience: Honoring Our True Selves

Resilience needs to be ingrained in a company's culture. Building your team's resilience is crucial to ensuring your company can overcome inevitable challenges. Foster a culture of resilience to harness the power of your employees, and you will realize a high-trust workplace that's healthy and productive. 

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