Resilience | The Runway

What comes to mind when you think of resilience? Is it getting up after being knocked down, again and again? Is it pushing on in the face of adversity or constant challenges? Or, perhaps when you think of resilience you picture mental toughness or having a warrior-mindset. It’s fair to say that resilience is all those things—but, it’s even more.

To be fair, resilience is about bouncing back; but it is also about being equipped to handle those challenges by having the resources to properly respond to them without feeling, or becoming overwhelmed. When this is so, we are able to operate with much more clarity, even under sustained pressure. And, that’s particularly important in a Defence environment.

This collection of articles will help unpack concepts of resilience and aims to help prepare ADF members to be mentally prepared for future challenges they may face.

Communication & Cognition

Resilience: The Unspoken Truth About Hardship

We can't always control what happens to us, but the way we respond to these issues does determine our path forward. Personal growth often emerges from navigating life's most difficult challenges.

Communication & Cognition

The 3 Things You'll Need No Matter What Comes Next

Because we can’t predict the future, our best bet is to prepare for it—sharpen internal resources within our control that will help us make the best of it. Enter mindset, agility, and creativity.

Military Management

Building Resilience in the Workplace: A Strategic Imperative for HR Professionals

A resilient workforce is one of Air Forces’ strategic imperatives with the military manager crucial in ensuring that an individual is not only able to endure, but able to flourish when challenged.

Resilience is invaluable in tough times. Here’s how to build it.

The American Psychological Association defines resilience as ‘successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility.’

Military Management

Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

We need to develop resilience to protect ourselves against experiences that could be overwhelming and to maintain balance in our lives during difficult or stressful periods.

Communication & Cognition

How Business Leaders Can Build Resilience: Recognize The Complex Causes Of Stress

Regardless of external stresses, business leaders must still deliver on goals and outcomes. But how does a manager address their employee's concerns during uncertain times?

Resilient leadership: Advice for navigating through organizational changes

Resilient leaders are more important than ever in the COVID and post COVID world.

Why being resilient won’t necessarily make you happy – new research

Resilience against, for example, bullying, can help people avoid developing mental health problems later on; however, it does not necessarily guarantee happiness.

4 WAYS YOUR RESILIENCE WORKS AGAINST YOU

Depending on the context, too much resilience is not always a good thing, especially when taken to extremes.

Royal Australian Navy officer Captain Ben Hissink, Commanding Officer of HMAS Supply, is joined on the bridge wing by other officers onboard. (Left to Right) Commander Benedict Maguire, Captain Ben Hissink, Lieutenant Jacqueline Rushford and Lieutenant Commander Belinda Finlay.

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Building Resilence - Pack Up Your Troubles

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.

I Will Go On: Leadership and Resilience

Not only must leaders be resilient, they must also develop it in others.