Last time, we overviewed resilience and proposed a multi-pronged response involving mental toughness, emotional self-awareness and volitional decisiveness as key to developing resilience. We also proposed emotional self-awareness as a starting point, since without the acknowledgement of stress, resilience strategies and other effective responses will not be deployed. Here are 5 steps to take: Acknowledge

Have you ever experienced anything like this? Tom’s colleagues have started to side-line him ever since he raised a question about a popular proposal which favoured an influential segment of the company.  A senior colleague seems to be playing a political game with Tom, maintaining a cordial front but insinuating his incompetence and lack of cooperation