Leaders act as emotional caretakers for their team’s wellbeing. Having capacity to role-model resilience is vital Faced with setbacks and adversity, teams look to their leader to stay buoyant, resist stress and demonstrate emotional balance, tenacity, perseverance and resolve – and to support their team to do the same
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Talea is tense a lot of the time. She performs at a high level and always pushes herself to be perfect in what she does. But her stress, coupled with a frequent sense of urgency, panic and pushiness, seems to project onto other people she works with. They get irritated and tense too. Talea also has a tendency to get irritated quickly if things don’t go her way and she often has run-ins with people as they arc up and
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To thrive in this post-COVID global reset – where conducting business will probably never return to the way things were pre-COVID – workplaces, more than ever, need leaders with new mindsets who practice a rebranded 3-Rs – they need to be Resilient, Responsive and Ready…
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Resilience is critical to effective leadership. How can we develop resilience and stay motivated in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change? Here’s 3R’s leaders need to know about to keep resilience reservoirs topped-up in themselves and their teams…
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Whatever the catalyst, trauma can keep triggering distressing reactions. Re-grounding routines are simple ways to help you be more trauma-resistant…
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Trauma can happen slowly. Or suddenly, in seconds. But its effects can last much longer. Whether a critical incident, accident, natural disaster or any number of workplace woes we find overwhelming, trauma can keep on triggering distressing physical, emotional and mental reactions that play havoc with our nervous system, make life hard-going, our behaviour erratic and our relationships very difficult to manage.
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Leadership success isn’t just built on technical know-how or business smarts, it’s built on firm EI foundations too – a critical competency for all capable leaders.
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