Rethinking and developing resilience: the role of environment and psychological safety
With resilience being a “buzzword” in the sport sector, the meaning of the term has started to be lost in translation, which can lead to misunderstanding.
To ensure a common and accurate language about resilience amongst organisations, in this session, Dr Sarkar initially explored common myths and misconceptions about resilience with a view to ensuring clarity about what resilience is and is not. Based on one of these misconceptions, Dr Sarkar subsequently explored how the environment can either facilitate or undermine resilience and how leaders in organisations can influence this. Specifically, attendees were introduced to a 2x2 challenge-support matrix to highlight the importance of balancing both high challenge and high support to develop resilience for sustained success and wellbeing.
Lastly, with psychological safety being one of the key features of a high challenge and high support (facilitative) environment, in the final part of the session, Dr Sarkar critically reviewed the concept of psychological safety and discussed some practical ideas for creating psychological safety in practice.
