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DR MUSTAFA SARKAR
I think one of the key messages occur the difference really between individual and team resilience – two things really. I think firstly the key with team resilience that’s not really majorly applicable to individual resilience is the importance of relationships.
Relationships are crucial for team resilience, whether that’s kind of things like leadership and communication but also things around kind of forming a really good social identity within the team. So I think relationships are really, really important.
And then secondly, one of the key messages, really, that we’ve kind of come across is that just because you’ve got a set of resilient individuals, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee a resilient team.
And kind of the example I often give with that – I know, kind of, at the time of this podcast, I think the World Cup draw has been made with England. Often the example I give with that example of individual resilience doesn’t necessarily guarantee team resilience is the England kind of football team – a bunch of individuals who are great individually, some of whom have kind of participated, you know, competed at, you know, highest levels in champions league and other kind of competitions but, again, collectively when they’re getting together as a team, they find it very, very difficult to perform as a team under that kind of pressurised situation.
So I think that’s the other– as well as the importance of relationships. Just because you have got a set of individuals who are resilient, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee team resilience. And the reason for that is because we’ve found in some of the research that we’ve done is that there are a distinct set of qualities that are important for team resilience that are different from the qualities required for individual resilience. Things like group structure, things like the importance of kind of collective confidence or collective efficacy and, as I mentioned, the importance kind of deep emotional bonds and a strong sense of social identity.