Learning and development in organisations is crucial for people development. And there are many types of training that are useful, practical and informative.
Except resilience training.
Resilience training often is code for this:
We are about to implement wide-scale changes that you won’t like, and you will go through a challenging and tumultuous period at the end of which you might lose access to your livelihood. We need you to cope with this horrid circumstances with a positive outlook, so we will train you to be more compliant – and less militant about what we will impose on you.
For me and I suspect for many others, many of life’s events have already taught us HOW to be resilient.
😳 Divorce
😬 Financial setbacks
🤕 Rejections
🤒 Grief and loss
😨 Health concerns
😈 Abuse
Maybe a better use of organisational resources would be to train leaders on how to develop far-sighted strategies so that the workforce planning is more considered. Maybe then we wouldn’t have the continuous turmoil of layoffs etc.
