Resilience at Work® Team
What is the R@W Team Scale?
The R@W Team is the aspect of the R@W Toolkit that measures team resilience. It complements and builds on the R@W Scale by assessing the behaviours that create resilience in groups of people who work together.
The R@W Team has been designed to focus on actions that can be implemented by the team itself. While group-level actions can be inhibited by external demands, both within and outside of the organisation, the premise is that teams can still create a sub-culture that contributes to resilience.
Team Resilience.
A group’s collective capacity to perform optimally while maintaining wellbeing, adapt to change and setback and position for sustainable success.
In today’s workforce most people work in teams, sometimes in multiple teams that may be temporary or fixed within the organisational structure. To optimise resilience this means that it is important to invest not only in individual but also in collective behaviours.
To create resilience within a group of people it makes sense that each person needs to develop their personal resilience as best they can in order to contribute as an effective member.
A group of resilient people does not however guarantee a resilient team. The reason for this is that team member behaviours need to be aligned and not in conflict in order for the group as a whole to be effective. Purpose, goals and values are a good example of this. To create team resilience these need to be shared and if misaligned will impact negatively on the group’s performance. The R@W Team measures the additional factors required at a team level to build resilience.
