Diagnostic results
Your result: Surviving
Your score places your team's resilience in the Surviving band - the foundations needed for the team to navigate pressure and change are not yet reliably in place.
Your team is getting through it. But getting through it isn't the same as being resilient.
A Surviving score doesn't mean your team isn't working. It means the collective resilience - the capacity to absorb pressure, adapt, and spring forward with the learning - isn't yet a reliable feature of how your team operates. When things get hard, the team gets through it, but the cost in energy, connection, and performance is higher than it needs to be.
Most teams in the Surviving band have individual contributors who are capable and committed. The gap isn't in the people - it's in the conditions. Psychological safety, shared purpose, genuine connection, and the ability to make sense of setbacks together are not yet consistently present.
Team resilience isn't built by asking people to be more resilient. It's built by creating the conditions where resilience emerges naturally - and that's a leadership challenge as much as a team one.
Teams that stay in the Surviving band don't stay the same. They fragment.
Without deliberate attention to team resilience, the pattern is predictable: the most capable people quietly start looking for teams where the conditions are better. Those who stay either disengage or exhaust themselves compensating. Performance becomes dependent on individual effort rather than collective capability.
The good news is that team resilience can shift relatively quickly when the right conditions are created. It doesn't require replacing people — it requires changing how the team operates together.
THE RESILIENCE WHEEL - SEVEN DIMENSIONS, ONE INTEGRATED SYSTEM.
The Resilience Wheel provides the lens for understanding team resilience - from the shared Attitude at the hub, through six spokes that map the specific dimensions where a team's collective resilience is built or lost. Understanding which dimensions are weakest is where the work begins.
Attitude • Confidence • Purpose • Adaptability • Energy • Support • Meaning
“We had capable people but a fragile team. Russell helped us understand the difference - and build something that actually held up when things got difficult."
HR Director - Novartis
A CLEAR PATH FORWARD
THREE STEPS TO BUILDING GENUINE TEAM RESILIENCE.
STEP 1
Understand the actual picture
A discovery conversation to identify which dimensions are creating the most fragility - and what's driving it beneath the surface of day-to-day team dynamics.
STEP 2
Build the conditions deliberately
A structured team resilience programme that works through each dimension - creating psychological safety, shared purpose, genuine connection, and the capacity to learn from difficulty.
STEP 3
Sustain and measure
Practices and structures that mean resilience becomes part of how the team operates - not something that depends on good conditions or a particular leader being in the room.
READY TO MOVE FORWARD?
START WITH A STRAIGHT CONVERSATION.
Tell Russell where your team is. He'll tell you honestly whether and how he can help - and what a realistic path forward looks like.