What is the R@W Individual Scale and Model?
The R@W Sustain 7 is a simple yet powerful model that creates a common language within workplaces around resilience.
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Resilience at Work®
Our experience is that it resonates across a wide range of industries and occupations.
It is based on the Resilience at Work® (R@W) Scale that was published in the Journal of Environmental Medicine in 2011. The R@W Scale is a scientifically researched measure of individual workplace resilience that measures the seven components that interrelate and contribute to overall resilience as shown below.
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Living Authentically
Knowing and holding onto your personal values, deploying your strengths, and having a good level of emotional awareness and regulation.
Finding Your Calling
Having work that offers purpose and a sense of belonging. Aligning work with your core values and beliefs.
Maintaining Perspective
Staying optimistic and keeping a solution-focus when things go wrong. Reframing setbacks and minimising the impact of any negativity around you.
Mastering Stress
Having work and life routines that help you manage your everyday stressors. Working to create work-life balance and ensuring time for relaxation and recovery.
Interacting Cooperatively
Seeking feedback, advice and support and also providing support readily to others.
Staying Healthy
Maintaining a good level of physical fitness, having a healthy diet and getting adequate sleep.
Building Networks
Developing and maintaining the personal and professional support networks you need at home and at work in order to perform well in your job.
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The Research Behind the R@W Scale.
The research behind the development of the R@W Scale was informed by over 25 years in coaching and consulting work. At one end of the spectrum this involved analysing the practices that resilient individuals employ. At the other end it was examining what was missing when individuals were struggling with their job or work environment. This extensive practitioner experience was combined with the peer-reviewed literature on resilience to research and develop the R@W Scale using best practice methodology and statistical analysis.
Since its publication the scale has been used extensively in international academic research into workplace resilience.
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