Why Resilient Leadership Is Critical
Resilience is our mastery to leap back from hardship. It’s what enables us to recover from change or adversity, whether in the workplace or in life more generally.
Today, as we adapt to unparalleled social distancing and public health regulations in our professional and personal lives, changes seem to come at unprecedented speed — and our resilience is well—tried more than ever.
As a leader, you must demonstrate resiliency for your colleagues at work. Someone with resilient leadership reflects the capacity to perceive failures as small setbacks, with the grit to recover quickly. In times of difficulty, your people are looking to you for emotional courage and strength to remain optimistic and seek new solutions. They’re looking for you to cement the guidance and illuminate the route. If you exercise resilient leadership, you’ll project an outlook of optimism that will help others sustain the emotional strength required to commit to a shared vision and the courage to move forward and overcome setbacks.
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Listed below are the steps you can take to advance and thrive in an era that tests most of our ability to recover. By shifting your thoughts and actions, you can change your attitudes, habits, and responses. Not only will that help to magnify your outlook and build resilient leadership, but it will also support your team to become more agile and adaptable.
5 Steps to Enhance Resilient Leadership
To build more leadership resiliency, focus on the following five strategies:
Assemble and cultivate a broad network of personal and professional connections. Personal relationships build a vital source of support — a meaningful ingredient in achieving objectives, handling hardships, and expanding perspective. Remember that relationships are essential for your team, too.
Be intentional about establishing a time to contact your connections. Socialization outside of work conference calls is essential and should be a component of our daily routines, even if it’s sudden.
In addition to reducing your blood pressure and cholesterol, we understand that regular exercise increases your ability to process stress and simultaneously boosts your resilience.
Disconnecting from work and making time for the recommended 7-8 hours of sleep scientifically prove to strengthen resilient leadership.
Whether celebrating success or enduring hardship, always create time for mindfulness. Mindfulness cultivates space and time for learning, new perspectives, and a degree of self-awareness that can enhance your resiliency.
In all, these eight resilient leadership strategies will make you a satisfied, more prosperous individual, both as a leader professionally and as an adaptable, future-ready individual.
If you are interested in learning about leadership strategies for leading with confidence in clarity in more detail and how to adapt different leadership strategies that can support you in your corporate business career, do not hesitate to contact Dethorn today.