Hyderabad Orators Club

March 1oth, 2024

Building Resilient Teams:
Strategies to overcome
challenges together

- By Prathibha
 What is
resilience?

- Bounce back or recover quickly from setbacks

- Adapt and cope effectively with stress or adversity
- Learning from the problems and growing stronger
 Yasmin Mogahed says,
“Resilience is very different than being numb.
Yasmin
Mogahed Resilience means you experience, you feel,
says you fail, you hurt, you fall. But you keep
going!”
 Resilient factors in individuals:-
- Genetic predispositions
- Environmental factors

- Resilience can be practiced by putting yourself in

challenging situations.

- Bob Marley once said, “ You never know how strong you
Are we born are until being strong is your only choice.”
resilient or
is it learned? - Building resilience in different contexts require different
approaches, including supportive relationships, positive
environments, teaching coping skills and therapy.
 Challenges to motivate a team:
 People are working remotely in different time zones.
 Matrix organizations are on the rise where one
employee is reporting to different managers.

Resilient
Teams
 TRUST

TEAM
CONFIDENCE

Fundamentals
principles that
Resilient
contribute to Teams
team’s
resilience
CAPACITY TO
IMPROVISE
  Trust is the foundation of a strong team
 Trust is an invisible thread that connecting every member of the
team
 Trust involves believing in the reliability, integrity and competence
of team members.
 When teammembers trust each other, they are more willing to
collaborate, communicate openly and share responsibilities

Trust
 Open Resolving Build
Communication Conflicts Relationships

How to build Creating a safe

psychological space
Prompt and
effective resolution
Through team
bonding activities or
Trust? for the team
members to share
of conflicts social interactions to
foster deeper
ideas connections
 TRUST

ACCOUNTABILITY

Fundamentals
principles that
Resilient
contribute to Teams
team’s
resilience
  Accountability refers to the responsibility of the team members to
fulfil their commitments, deliver results and take ownership of
their actions and decisions.

292 runs
91/7 in 19 overs

Accountability
Accountability
 Lead by example Establish clear goals
and objectives

How to build
accountability?
Encourage Provide support and
ownership resources
 TRUST

ACCOUNTABILITY TEAM
CONFIDENCE

Fundamentals
principles that
Resilient
contribute to Teams
team’s
resilience
  The belief that the team can handle anything that comes its way.
 It is not the sum of the confidence of each member but a collective
and mutual confidence of the team.

Team
Confidence
 Cohesive training Encourage participation in
opportunities decision making

How to build
team
confidence?
Cheer and celebrate Provide useful
success feedback
 TRUST

ACCOUNTABILITY TEAM
CONFIDENCE

Fundamentals
principles that
EMOTIONAL Resilient
contribute to INTELLIGENC
E Teams
team’s
resilience
  Collective ability of the team members to recognize, understand
and manage their own emotions as well as emotions of others
effectively.
 Imagine having this person or this person in your team. How do
you feel working with him?
 Imagine having this person in your team and how do you think it
feels working with him?

Emotional
Intelligence
 Promote self Encourage
awareness empathy

How to build
emotional
intelligence?
Conflict Effective
resolution communication
 TRUST

ACCOUNTABILITY TEAM
CONFIDENCE

Fundamentals
principles that
EMOTIONAL Resilient PSYCHOLOGICA
contribute to INTELLIGENC
E Teams
L
SAFETY

team’s
resilience
CLARITY
CAPACITY TO
&
IMPROVISE
PLANNING

ACTIVE
ENGAGEMENT
  Capacity to improvise:
Team should practise being flexible, explore new approaches and
experiment with different strategies to address challenges.
Few more  Psychological Safety:
principles a Creating an environment where team members feel comfortable
resilient team speaking up with ideas, thoughts and concerns without feeling
scared or shy.
should have  Clarity in planning:
Knowing each others roles and responsibilities and able to take up
others place in their absence.
Thank You!