Resilience & Flexibility at Work
Building the capacity to adapt, perform, and thrive, even in uncertainty.
At Bailey & French, we design tools and programmes grounded in evidence-based psychology that help individuals, teams and organisations grow resilience and strengthen psychological flexibility – the essential ability to stay effective under pressure, navigate change and still focus on what matters.
This isn’t about surface-level fixes or ticking boxes. It’s about enabling people to sustain high performance while managing real human needs – shifting from reactive firefighting to proactive, people-centred strategies that make a lasting impact.
The most forward-thinking organisations are investing in developing the psychological and practical capabilities their people need to handle today and tomorrow.
Key areas we support:
- Psychological resilience and adaptability
- Physical and emotional energy management
For every £1 spent by employers on mental health interventions they get £5 back in reduced absence, presenteeism and staff turnover.
Deloitte, 2020
Why Is It So Important?
Poor mental health costs UK employers up to £45 billion each year. This is a rise of 16% since 2016 – an extra £6 billion a year.
Deloitte, 2020
Bailey & French use the PERMA model, introduced by Martin Seligman in 2011. Through his research into flourishing and thriving the five core elements of psychological wellbeing, all equally important, can help people take steps towards resilience and work towards a life of fulfillment, happiness, and meaning. They are:
- Positive Emotions
- Engagement
- Relationships
- Meaning
- Accomplishment
When people are in a positive state, they can find 12+ solutions to a given problem compared to two when in a state of anger or fear.
Fredrickson, 2008