Is VUCA Getting In The Way Of Organisational Resilience?

Organisational resilience includes disaster recovery systems, dealing with disruption and catastrophes, yet also focuses on the people issues on a day-to-day basis.
The main components required to develop organisational resilience.
Strong organisational values drive meaning for everyone because they offer ways to interpret and shape events.
Core values of resilient organisations need little change over the years and are used to support all involved in times of trouble.
VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity of general conditions and situations, and is derived from military vocabulary. VUCA came into common usage in the 1990s. It is a practical code for awareness and readiness.
The capacity for VUCA in organisational resilience depends on the changing nature of the technical, social, political, market and economic realities of the environment in which people work.
The capacity of individuals and organisations to deal with VUCA can be assessed and measured by a number of engagement themes:
Beyond the simple acronym is a body of knowledge that deals with learning models for VUCA – preparedness, anticipation, evolution, and intervention.
The steps involved in building resilient organisations are:
A resilient culture is developed through:
Ensure there is management resource for developing:
Develop resilient teams by mapping hearts and mapping minds.
Adapted from “The Authority Guide to Emotional Resilience; Strategies to Manage Stress and Weather Storms in the Workplace”– published May 2016
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