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Resiliency and Contingency Plans
While it’s nothing to brag about, having worked with many people that face challenges — some economics, talent shortages, some life threatening like wars — it has become obvious that resiliency and contingency walk hand in hand.
A Contingency Plan is something more than saying “If this happens, I might take this route.”
Your brain does that automatically — it’s part of the survivor mode. What makes it unique to have a plan or to at least be thinking about it ahead of time is that when you jump through that hoop, you’re in the mode to think about other ways beyond the one or two you have thought. If you haven’t thought that way, it’s a good practice because the more you do it, the faster your brain becomes, finding solutions and connecting dots to make things happen.
A Contingency Plan means that if you lose your data you have a backup. If you lose the backup you have an older backup. You might not get back to where you were, but you don’t necessarily have to start from scratch, although that can happen, too.
The more mentally, emotionally, and physically prepared you are, the faster you will recover.
Resiliency, meanwhile, is the ability to continue no matter what. To adapt no matter what happens. So having a Contingency Plan doesn’t make you resilient unless you implement it.
