STRESS. We all have it. Sometimes it comes in the form of the washer breaking the same week your car gets a flat tire and your gas bill doubled. Other times, it’s the really heavy stuff like serious illness, loss of a loved one, or any unexpected tragedy. But it’s how we make it through to the other side of those situations that matters. How we adapt, recover from adversity, and learn from difficult experiences is what determines how resilient we are.

In the workplace, resiliency is often a skill that is critical to job roles. Resilient employees are better equipped to handle change and maintain performance when faced with challenges. Resilient leaders have the ability to guide their teams through uncertainty while inspiring confidence.

Compassion, understanding, kindness, and care are all words that come to mind when we think of empathy. But these days it seems that we see less and less of that in our society. Maybe it’s social media. Maybe it’s our busy schedules or our seemingly declining mental health. Maybe we can even blame some of it on the lasting effects of the pandemic. Whatever it is, humans just don’t seem to have as much empathy for one another as they used to.