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Everyone holds responsibility for employee resilience From Group Executives to employees, everyone can help to foster a resilient environment Prior to the outbreak of Covid, UK businesses had experience in dealing with periods of prolonged uncertainty, such as the 2008 financial crisis or Brexit. Despite this, according to Deloitte’s 2021 Global Resilience Report, only 24% of C-suite executives felt ready to lead during a disruptive phase. This figure only increased to 34% with the onset of Covid. As the UK workforce has been forced to endure a great deal this past year, the notion of employee and companywide resilience has received more attention than usual. Exclusively speaking to myGrapevine+, Debbie Bullock, Aviva’s UK Wellbeing Lead explains how she feels the notion of resilience does not necessarily purely fall to the executive leadership of a firm, but to all employees within a business. The benefits that Bullock details a resilient workforce can bring are employees who have more purpose in their work and more adept at learning new skills. Therefore, it is important to understand who is ultimately responsible for driving resilience, as the same Deloitte report found that 60% predict Covid size disturbances to occur on a semi-regular basis.
