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Building up your resilience is key to getting work-ready, whether you are starting out on the first rung of the job ladder or are looking for promotion.

Over a year into the global pandemic, many of us feel the weariness of multiple lockdowns. Being cooped up at home and at arm’s length from our colleagues is causing many people to lose heart. Leaders everywhere are facing the challenge of keeping their people engaged and energised whilst the turbulent times continue.

The jobs market is highly competitive these days, so what can help you stand out from the crowd?

If you can be anything – Be YOU.

‘… Each man in his time plays many parts,’ said Shakespeare, and on the ‘stage’ of life, so often we fall into the ‘adaptive’ self — the self which is shaped by the expectations of our job, our social role, and even our relationships.

The shift to remote working in the past year has put pressure on leaders and staff across all sectors. As some people gradually start to come back to the office, leaders will have to contend with new issues impeding their team’s connectivity.

Why do so many new business and product ideas fail? It’s because innovators don’t take the precaution of testing their assumptions about what customers want, need and how they are going to behave before they start investing time, money and effort. Don’t fall into the same trap!

I’ve interviewed and employed lots of people over the years. If asked why I gave the job to someone my reply was often that they just immediately “felt right” but what was really going on?

It’s said that there are three types of people:

• those who make it happen
• those who watch what happens
• those who say, “what happened?”

Let’s talk about an essential journey which, if you are like the majority of people, you will never go on.