RESILIENT LEADERS GROW THE ORGANIZATION

A growing body of scientific research confirms that that resilience is a key factor in helping employees cope with workplace stress, change, and adversity. Regardless of position or title, a resilient leader is someone that is authentic, aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and adapts to changing circumstances while encouraging others to do the same. These leaders build powerful relationships, balance competing priorities, and believe that they are always capable of improvement.

RE-THINKING FAILURE

Unfortunately, fear of failure stifles the ability to build resilience, creating an environment of the status quo. Resilient leaders refuse to be paralyzed by failure, rather they use the information to iterate, innovate, and inspire. Successful leaders challenge the way things have “always been done”, embrace new ideas, and take calculated risks. Failure comes with the most valuable set of lessons, if we can shift our viewpoint to see them. Failure cultivates humility, builds resiliency, and breeds fearlessness. Challenge yields the greatest opportunities for growth.

BECOME A RESILIENT LEADER

How do leaders influence others and build a resilient team and organization? They set the tone.

Each day, resilient leaders are very deliberate in the mood and tone they are setting, knowing their impact is felt far beyond the people with whom they have immediate contact. Through their confidence, calm and focus, resilient leaders are able to take anxiety and fear of change and transform them into accelerators of greatness.