{"id":1924,"date":"2013-02-24T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2014-04-28T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T13:43:44","slug":"building-and-maintaining-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2013\/02\/24\/building-and-maintaining-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Maintaining Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/files\/2013\/02\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1925\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/files\/2013\/02\/image-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By @cdvallance<\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks since my last blog have been a struggle. Like many others around the University I have been battling what a colleague referred to as &#8216;the ubiquitous Kent bug.&#8217; While I very much doubt that Kent is alone as an organisation that has had many of its members fall victim to a range of winter colds and flus, it has certainly been difficult for me to identify anyone absolutely brimming with energy and enthusiasm of late. Add to this a bout of cold, wet, grey weather, short days, dark nights and many work challenges. So what can be done?<\/p>\n<p>For me, the only way to regain and then maintain my personal and professional resilience in relation to work is to reflect on the question &#8216;why do I bother?&#8217; What do I believe about why I get up every morning and go to work? Of course I need and want a pay cheque. That is a given. But this isn&#8217;t enough for me and I believe it isn&#8217;t enough for others either. I believe we all (or at least the great majority of us) want to feel that we are making a positive difference in what we do and that we also want to share these feelings of pursuing a common purpose with others.<\/p>\n<p>How do we do this? In my last blog, I shared six keys to successful change coined by leading thinker Rosabeth Moss Kanter. To recap, these were:<\/p>\n<p>Show up, speak up, team up, look up, don&#8217;t give up, lift others up.<\/p>\n<p>In my next few blogs I will discuss why I believe groups and teams are key to organisational success. This is partly selfish. My hope is that sharing my thinking about something I care about &#8211; team work and collaboration &#8211; will also help me rebuild my own resilience and restore my own energy in trying to make a positive difference at the University of Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By @cdvallance The past few weeks since my last blog have been a struggle. Like many others around the University I have been battling what a colleague referred to as &#8216;the ubiquitous Kent bug.&#8217; While I very much doubt that Kent is alone as an organisation that has had many of its members fall victim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/2013\/02\/24\/building-and-maintaining-resilience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building and Maintaining Resilience<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118935,8947],"tags":[25052,25033,25051,25053,25037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/change-academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}