Diagnostic results
Your result: COPING
Your score places your team's resilience in the Coping band - genuine strengths exist, but some dimensions are carrying more weight than they should.
Your team has real strengths. The question is whether they'll hold when things get harder.
A Coping score means your team is not fragile - there are dimensions of The Resilience Wheel where collective resilience is genuinely present. People broadly trust each other, there's a sense of shared direction, and the team gets through difficult periods without falling apart. But it also means there are dimensions where things are more precarious than they look on a good week.
Teams in the Coping band often describe a familiar experience: broadly fine, occasionally really good, but with a persistent sense that they're one difficult period away from the wheels coming off. The strengths are real but not evenly distributed across all seven dimensions.
The gap between a Coping team and a Thriving one is usually not about the people. It's about one or two specific dimensions - a lack of genuine psychological safety, a purpose that hasn't quite landed, or an energy dynamic that's sustainable until it suddenly isn't.
Coping teams perform adequately in normal conditions. Thriving teams perform in the difficult ones.
The real test of team resilience isn't how a team performs when conditions are good - it's how they respond when change hits, when pressure increases, or when a key person leaves. Coping teams often discover their fragility at exactly the wrong moment.
A Coping score is also a genuine opportunity. The foundations are there. With focused attention on the right dimensions, the shift to Thriving can happen relatively quickly - and the difference in how the team operates is felt immediately.
STRENGTH IN SOME DIMENSIONS. PRESSURE IN OTHERS. THE RESILIENCE WHEEL SHOWS YOU EXACTLY WHERE.
In the Coping band, the Resilience Wheel typically shows a clear pattern - two or three spokes are strong, two or three are developing, and one or two are carrying more pressure than they should. Identifying which is which is the most useful thing you can do right now.
Attitude • Confidence • Purpose • Adaptability • Energy • Support • Meaning
"The diagnostic showed us exactly where our team was strong and where we were papering over the cracks. Addressing the cracks changed how the whole team operated."
People Director - Kerry Group
THE CLEAR PATH FORWARD
FROM COPING TO THRIVING - THREE FOCUSSED STEPS.
STEP 1
Identify the fragile dimensions
A conversation to map where your team's resilience is genuinely strong - and which dimensions are the most likely to create problems when pressure increases.
STEP 2
Address the gaps deliberately
A targeted team resilience programme that builds on existing strengths and creates genuine capacity in the dimensions that are currently fragile.
STEP 3
Build it into how the team works
Practices and habits that mean resilience is embedded in day-to-day team culture - not something that requires a programme to sustain.
READY TO MOVE FORWARD?
START WITH A STRAIGHT CONVERSATION.
A conversation with Russell will give you a clear picture of which dimensions are your team's greatest opportunity - and what moving from Coping to Thriving would actually look like.