How easily do you bounce back from a difficulty?
We can’t avoid stress, but we can strengthen our skills in resilience: our ability to resist, recover from, and adapt to challenges.
Resilience keeps you going through good and bad times over the course of your career. It helps you manage multiple demands, and keep calm under pressure. It helps you learn, grow and improve yourself.
So it’s not surprising that resilience predicts leadership success.
Resilience comes from two kinds of factors:
- The routines and behaviours that give you energy and facilitate recovery, making negative responses less likely
- Your ability to manage your own stress response in the moments when it arises also called Mindshifting.
Why is it useful?
Work involves stress. It’s part of life. But the way we respond and handle stress influences our ability to excel as leaders.
Without resilience, we’re less able to focus and concentrate, are worse at decision making and problem solving, and are less efficient and productive. If we’re not resilient, we’re more likely to drift into a Red Brain state, and have negative and unconstructive stress responses.
To be a strong leader, we need to practice and model resilience. Fortunately, resilient behaviours can be learned.
Leda can help you improve resilience-building habits around sleep, exercise, nutrition, relaxation and social support. We can show you how to foster positive emotions in yourself, and help you master the practice of Mindshifting which is so critical to emotional self-control when the going gets really tough.
