Founder Erica discusses an amazing speaker who shared on resilience (at Professional Engineers Ontario’s Chapter Leader Conference 2018). Check out #PEOCLC2018 for more.
I saw a remarkable speaker a few weeks ago. She’s Canada’s answer to Brene Brown! Dr Rumeet Billan shared that of the jobs that will exist in 2030, 85% of them do not exist today. *Massive* implications here: personally, professionally, in our companies, our economies, and countries.
She spoke eloquently about building resilience, or the ability to overcome adversity, setbacks and transitions and coming out the other side. Resilient companies are great, where we focused a decade ago. Nowadays, she said, we are focused on personal resilience.
Once you develop that, you can go through anything. Technical skills are great but the best predictor for navigating transitions successfully? Resilience.
Lately I’ve been really thinking about frontline employees and their capacity to transform a company. When companies invest in their people they’re giving them the ability to thrive in the face of change. They can handle more responsibility and exercise more autonomy. They’re more resilient.
Resilience is crucial now in 2018 and will be more so as we head toward 2030 and more rapid shifts and transitions. I would love to know what you think. How has resilience figured in your life or your company? Are you ready for the changes that are coming?