Personal Resilience Assessment PDF

GMBA8102 – A2 | Build Personal Resilience
Assignment 2 – Action Plan
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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................. 2
Discussion................................................................................................................................... 2
Extended critical review...............................................................................................................2
Analysis and application: action plan...........................................................................................4
Self-audit..................................................................................................................................... 4
Help systems............................................................................................................................... 5
New Actions and progress measures..........................................................................................6
Mindset and implementation........................................................................................................7
Conclusion................................................................................................................................... 7
References.................................................................................................................................. 9
Appendix.................................................................................................................................... 10
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Introduction
Stress at the workplace can lead to several emotional and health issues of individuals
due to their incapability to deal with the situation of stress appropriately. Therefore, employees
must build their resilience. Personal resilience refers to an individual’s ability to deal with events
that provoke stress in an individual without being affected by the event such that the individual
does not show any signs and symptoms of personal stress. Therefore individuals must have
training in personal resilience such that they can be able to face the different complicated
situation without being stressed by the same (Braukmann et al., 2018).
Moreover, the development of resilience is significant because it can help individuals in
developing a mechanism to be protected against complex experiences that may be
overwhelming, it can help in improving and maintaining a better work-life balance even during
stressful situations. Some of the vital skills that show an individual has resilience include-
mindfulness, self-awareness, self-care, positive relationship, and purpose. The main aim of the
paper is to improve the personal resilience of individuals through various techniques. Therefore
the paper will discuss the acritical review of stressful situations and the reaction to the same and
will carry out analysis and application.
Discussion
Extended critical review
The stressors identified by me at my workplace include- time stressor, situational
stressor, anticipatory stressor, and also encounter stressor. These stressors highlight my
inability to deal with multiple within a given time limit. Moreover, I am faced with anticipatory
stressors by anticipating the future. I am also faced with situational stressors because of a lack
of recognition. Finally, I feel I am suffering from encounter stress as I feel very uncomfortable to
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interact with people because I fear that my opinion will not be considered. Due to all these
stressors, I feel that my energy is lacking.
Further, there are chances of me gaining weight, my palms start sweating in situations
and stress, and there are also different other psychological and health issues that I suffer when I
am faced with stress. The technique used by me to overcome these stressors includes the 4 A’s
framework in which try to avoid the situation, alter the situation when I have made all attempts to
alter the situation, and it still cannot be altered, I accept it and then adapt to the same. After
making the application of the techniques of dealing with the stress, I try to keep a positive
attitude in situations of stress by trying to avoid the same (Kinmans & Jones, 2005). However,
when I feel that the situation cannot be avoided, which I cannot alter within a particular time
limit, I start losing my calm and start panicking. Therefore I can say that though my perception
about stressful situations and managing the same has changed, it can be directed towards a
more positive perception. I feel that I do not have sufficient skills that are required for dealing
with stressful situations such as I need to learn to develop better social relationships such that I
can overcome encounter stressors. I accept the situation as it is, and as a result, I fail to present
my opinion or perspective in front of others (Lambert, Lambert & Yamase, 2003).
Moreover, I should try to carry out self-care such that I can develop myself in a way that I
can encounter people and interact appropriately. Hence I can acquire and improve my resilience
skills. I need to shift my perspective in a new direction; that is, I need to start seeing the bigger
picture and try to look at the brighter side of all my activities. Therefore according to the
resilience factor typology, the strategies adopted by me for overcoming my workplace stress
include making application of the four A's framework of Mayo clinic. The strategies as per the
framework have helped me in improving my skills, perception; however, I am unable to change
my personality completely (Michie, 2002). Since I am unable to deal with my stressors
effectively, therefore, I need to learn about a few resilience factor types (McKeown & Bates,
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