Date: 3 October 2019, 18:00–20:00 (Start: 18:30)
Location: Expat Center Vienna, Schmerlingplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Speakers: Dr. Bijan Khajehpour (moderator), Dr. Gudrun Gaedke, Iketina Danso
Language: English
Registration: online (see below) or at the entrance
Facebook event: here
Shape the session: What are your challenges regarding resilience, either individually, as a team, or as an organization? Send us your questions below or via email by 30 September! We will collect them and debate them in the session.

• What does resilience in the workplace mean?
• What do highly resilient employees and managers do differently?
• How can I develop my personal resilience at work?
• What are ways to enhance resilience in our teams and organizations?

Resilience is a person’s capacity to respond to pressure in the workplace and the demands of daily life. This skill includes aspects such as flexibility, durability, speed of recovery and buoyancy. In short, resilience affects our ability to ‘bounce back’ from challenges.

Resilience at work is now recognized as a powerful characteristic, particularly in our dynamic VUCA reality. Luckily, resilience is a developable competence. At work, resilient people are better able to deal with the demands placed on them, especially where those demands require them to deal with constantly changing priorities and a heavy workload. On an organizational level, resilience is a strategic imperative for an organization to prosper in today’s complex world.

During this VGL Forum, Dr. Gudrun Gadke (trainer and lecturer) and Iketina Danso (International HR Consultant) are going to discuss some practical and evidence-based ways to develop our own resilience, as well as how to develop resilience in our teams and organizations (organizational resilience).