We are navigating challenging times, and the global business environment is a changing landscape.

Fiscal results are often the dominant focus, whilst organisational health, resilience and sustainability can inadvertently become impacted resulting in increased stress levels and strained relationships, often at a hidden cost that can reduce organisational capability, and in turn diminish productivity.

An associated leadership challenge can be that leaders are focussed on achieving results, rather than on the motivation and wellbeing of their teams.

A key ingredient to organisational health, resilience and sustainability is the extent and level of authenticity of ‘group membership’ and social cooperation.

From a culture perspective an organisation can consider its cultural dimensions in the context of ‘individualistic’ or ‘collectivist’. 

When we consider the notion of an ‘individualist’ culture, the individual is more focused on personal interests than those of the collective, and the weave of the relationship fabric often lacks trust and integrity.  From a ‘collectivist’ culture perspective the interests and welfare of the group becomes the primary focus. Relationship fabric is strong, authentic and a high degree of loyalty exists.

A functional workplace revolves around a high level of social cooperation, organisational awareness around role clarity and expectations, and of importance the level of leadership support.

Several questions we can ask as leaders of an organisation are:

“How would we describe the level of ‘group membership’ and social cooperation in the organisation?”

“Does our leadership actively consider the psychological well-being of self as a leader, and of the people within the organisation?”

“Are our organisational practices fostering long term sustainability?”

We often hear the word ‘resilience’ spoken and there are varying definitions of resilience, the word originates from the Latin word resiliens – “act of rebounding”.

Resilience can be viewed as an innate attribute, an individual character or psychological strength, however our future growth and our sense of well-being in a self-sustaining way requires reinforcing processes.

Our Organisational Coaching is dedicated to improving self-awareness and organisational awareness among leaders. We examine organisational practices and the aspects of Social and Emotional Intelligence that lead to enhanced social cooperation, which in turn fosters organisational health. We also focus on building resilience through identifying effective strategies and resources to support the “act of rebounding.”