When we think about resilience, more often than not we think of it as our ability to bounce back from or cope with adversity or stress. This ‘reactive’ resilience is essential to successfully managing life’s ups and downs and we all use different coping strategies to help us navigate such events.

However, there is another ‘proactive’ side to being resilient which we don’t often think about, which helps us maintain equilibrium and wellbeing regardless of what is going on in our lives. Building this not only helps us navigate small daily challenges, but also ensures that we are better able to cope with stressful events when they arise.

As business owners, you’re already familiar with the accompanying peaks and troughs in terms of volume of work, client demands and expectations etc. Being more aware of your ‘go to’ coping strategies, your approaches to handling uncertainty and stress and then learning to adapt them will significantly increase your ability to navigate the running of your business in a balanced and productive way; increasing your wellbeing and reducing your stress levels in the process.

The Resilience Quotient Inventory (RQi™) is the leading psychometric tool on the market; providing individual measures of resilience against 7 scales and 26 subscales as plus feedback around coping strategies, positive mindset, lifestyle factors and development activities in a comprehensive report.