Resilience was the theme of our Event & Dialogue, which we hosted at our Nuremberg office in April 2023. Together with our cooperation partner stg Die MitarbeiterBerater, we explored resilience from various perspectives with our guests.
The resilient employee – the resilient organization – the resilient company: A triad that promotes approaches to resilience management and makes it very clear that all aspects are equally interconnected and can only achieve the desired results when working together.
A key takeaway from the evening is that there is no such thing as active "resilience management" in medium-sized companies. This does not mean that strengthening the resilience of employees, the organization, and the company plays no role. The opposite is true; it is just that the term "resilience management" does not exist. Rather, these activities are embedded in classic corporate functions, and there is no conscious consolidation into a coordinated resilience management system. "Of course, when you put it that way, we are managing resilience," one participant noted.
Transparency, clear processes, a culture of learning from mistakes, and appreciation are important factors for employee resilience and goal-oriented collaboration within a company. Creating this framework is the responsibility of company management and executives. In many medium-sized companies, owners work on this by giving their company values through mission statements and anchoring them within the organization. HR managers, on the other hand, are increasingly working on competence- and strength-based approaches for personnel development and the assignment of tasks and responsibilities. Transparency and clarity are the responsibility of the entire management team, to which the commercial and risk management departments make important contributions.
However, it is also crucial that every individual employee takes responsibility for being "resilient." Self-determination is the responsible way of dealing with oneself. Appreciation should go both ways. It is not just employees who want to be valued; leaders and entrepreneurs do too. Values must be lived by everyone if they are to form a stable foundation in the company. Mindfulness in dealing with oneself, others, and the organization is everyone's task, which can be effective within a resilience-conscious framework so that companies and employees can be resistant and adaptable, and draw enough energy from change to actively seize the opportunities it brings.
THE MAK'ED TEAM and stg – Resilience at all levels
Organizational and individual resilience go hand in hand. That is why the management consultancy THE MAK'ED TEAM cooperates with the employee consultancy stg. This allows us to offer medium-sized companies a strong, comprehensive package. THE MAK'ED TEAM supports companies in building a resilient organization with an experienced and interdisciplinary team. stg supports employees in building their individual resilience. Together, we develop resilience concepts for companies that implement and make resilience effective at all levels of the organization.
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