Seeing through the jungle of competences:
Resilience

Julia works in health management in psychosocial counseling. She supports colleagues in dealing with stress, mental stress and illnesses and provides advice in personal crisis situations. Although many people now take it for granted to do something for their health, they tend to think about their bodies and neglect their psyches. This can take its toll at some point.

"I had my first contact with the subject during my studies in a seminar on developmental psychology. That was the theory, so to speak, and the practice came on the job. After taking stock of the situation, my consultations are always about building up and strengthening competencies in order to master the crisis and, in the best case, even to grow from it. Acceptance, self-efficacy and personal responsibility (three of the seven resilience factors) play a major role here. After all, the great thing is that resilience can still be learned and strengthened in adulthood."

As a family business, OTTO is very concerned about both the physical and mental health of our employees. Julia and her colleagues from the health promotion department therefore offer a range of programs on the topic of resilience. When you start with us, you have the opportunity to train resilience through various internal offers. The OTTO Academy, for example, offers seminars and the OTTO learning platform also contains some learning paths. You can also find interesting articles on resilience on the intranet.