Tag: organisations

Well it only took 7 or 8 years….!

Finally I have had my doctoral research published – in the prestigious JCBS no less!

Here is the link to the article.

I think there are 3 reasons why the research was interesting and relevant to organisations:

💡#1: It was an organisation-wide study of organisational resilience with a sample size 5-times larger than usual. Training was mandatory so it reached people who hadn’t volunteered to be there (pretty unusual in research)

💡#2: Findings showed that psychological flexibility can be improved by a single (half-day) training session

💡#3: In turn, psychological flexibility was associated with improvements to resilience reduced burnout risk and enhanced performance.

But in some ways the most exciting finding was that the training helped different people in different ways, which is in line with theory.

For example, if someone took the training with high levels of exhaustion to begin with, they tended to gain greater wellbeing from the session.

But for those who were less exhausted to begin with, they tend to gain greater accomplishment from the training.

This makes so much sense from a theoretical, but also personal, perspective. Have you ever felt you ‘took what you needed’ from a training session?

That’s what appears to have happened here.

In my next post I will talk about the story of this research (including babies and driving and training through the snowy wilds of Sweden and applying ACT to my own life) and give some much needed ‘thank yous’ – but for now I hope people enjoy reading the paper.