Raise awareness about the impact of poor resilience, adaptability and learnability skills on job satisfaction, quality of work, mental and physical health•Identifying when and how to implement effectively these three core skills •Achieving successful work-life balance •Develop and enhance resilience, adaptability and learnability skills in young employees •Train employers to develop fostering work places •Develop quality training materials •Capacity building and networking on an EU level.
The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it mental health challenges as well as obstacles in new working environments. Unforeseeable challenges have urged organizations to reshape their work environments in order to foster their adaptability and promote positive change (World Economic Forum, 2020). At the same time, anxiety, fear, depression have had a negative impact on people’s personal and professional domains. The inevitable shifting from on-site to teleworking has negatively impacted employees’ work efficiency and productivity and has led to a lack of work-life balance (Gorlick, 2020). As hybrid working circumstances are becoming the norm, it is key that young employees develop critical soft skills (i.e. adaptability, resilience and learnability skills) to overcome effectively work challenges and changes. Personal competences including resilience and the ability to cope with stress have been identified as key competences (EU, 2019). Hence, THRIVE’s main goal was to develop and enhance resilience, adaptability and learnability skills of young employees in the workplace, especially those with fewer opportunities and other obstacles such as mental or physical health difficulties, mobility or financial difficulties.