...McMurray that destroyed over 2,400 buildings and 600 work camp units. This keynote is a customized version of Leading @ the Speed of Change built around our Lead, Follow, or Wallow framework with a focus on building hardiness and resilience in ourselves and others. While strengthening resilience or bounce-back has...
Read post »...some sort of meaning for themselves and others…an increasing body of empirical evidence shows that resilience – whether in children, survivors of concentration camps, or businesses back from the brink – can be learned.” Diane L. Coutu, “How Resilience Works,” Harvard Business Review “The leaders I met, whatever walk of...
Read post »...“…a test for psychological fitness, self-improvement courses available following the test, and “master resilience training” (MRT) for drill sergeants. These are based on PERMA: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment — the building blocks of resilience and growth….MRT focuses on enhancing mental toughness, highlighting and honing strengths, and fostering...
Read post »...Here are a few ways to strengthen our resilience: Meditation — meditation can be very helpful to calm that “monkey mind” that keeps us up at night and adds stress. Insight Timer is a web site and free app available on Android and Apple. It provides a free library of...
Read post »Resilience is a vital skill. It’s crucial to our health, happiness, and leadership. Resilience is a muscle that we can strengthen – ideally before we really need it. Positive psychology research and best practices show that we can build resilience strengths or habits for Post-Traumatic Growth. Since I enjoyed and...
Read post »...are. But resilience in the face of the hurricane-force winds of change is as often about being flexible like a palm tree rather than unbending like an oak. Like so much of life, it’s about balance. W.C. Fields was on to something about resilience when he quipped, “If at first...
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Read post »...by a factor of 2.” “Resilience, at least among young civilians, can be taught. This was the main thrust of positive education, and we had found that depression, anxiety, and conduct problems could be reduced among children and adolescents through resilience training… if we want health, we should concentrate on...
Read post »...and shared missions. I’ve long studied, written about, and worked to build resilience. Approaches to strengthening hardiness and resilience are easy to understand, but tough to do, especially during traumatic times. We need constant reminders. A few months ago, I summarized nine ways I continue to find very helpful. Tomorrow...
Read post »...Sustained Organizational Effectiveness “Call it the resilience gap. The world is becoming turbulent faster than organizations are becoming resilient…To thrive in turbulent times, companies must become as efficient at renewal as they are at producing today’s products and services. Renewal must be the natural consequence of an organization’s innate resilience.”...
Read post »Read my review of You Are Awesome by Neil Pasricha “Resilience is a skill we now have in very short supply. Not many of us have been through famines or wars or, let’s be honest, any form of true scarcity. We have it all! And the side effect is that...
Read post »...it’s our behavior and not our role that determines leadership. Don’t P Yourself – avoiding the Three Ps that undermine effectiveness Uplift: The Resilience Track to Bounce Back from a Set Back Choosing Our Framework – applying powerful new research from the rapidly emerging field of Positive Psychology to build...
Read post »...publish my November blogs in the December issue of The Leader Letter. The first article looks at the vital topic of hardiness and resilience so vital to dealing with life’s many setbacks and problems. You’ll also look further at the emerging research and approaches to building strengths. This is a...
Read post »...in our community. Bounce Back: 9 Ways to Strengthen Resilience — In Japan, the Daruma Doll is a good luck charm with a rounded and weighted bottom. When knocked down, it bounces back upright. This ability to bounce back is a symbol of perseverance and good luck for the Japanese...
Read post »...pain, negativity, stress, and uncertainty, or to use those resources to look at things through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience, optimism, and meaning. In other words, while we, of course, can’t change reality through sheer force of will alone, we can use our brain to change how we process...
Read post »...resilience, it should come as no surprise that the most successful organizations and people possess strong value systems. Strong values infuse an environment with meaning because they offer ways to interpret and shape events. – Diane L. Coutu, “How Resilience Works,” Harvard Business Review Unsuccessful transitions almost always founder during...
Read post »...Wallowers is recognizing their own behavior when the “you-know-what hits the fan.” I recently came across research from PEAK Learning that measured the resilience of 1,600 people in the UK and how their responses to adversity correlated with happiness, quality of life, exercise, diet, energy, optimism, engagement at work, sick...
Read post »...of this chapter). Flourish has two chapters dealing with a huge project Seligman and his colleagues have with the U.S. Army to provide Comprehensive Soldier Fitness and Master Resilience Training to hundreds of thousands. One goal is converting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) into Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG). You can read a...
Read post »...very practical and succinct summary of the best research-based methods for a happier, more meaningful life. They’ve organized the site with a very easy to navigate layout. “Featured Practices” include Awe, Compassion, Connection, Empathy, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Happiness, Kindness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Resilience to Stress, and Self-Compassion. Clicking on any of these...
Read post »...especially during this unprecedented crisis. This presentation centered on leading from the inside out: strong leadership of others ripples out from strong self-leadership. My recent blog Bounce Back: 9 Ways to Strengthen Resilience drew from a key slide on leading ourselves. I then moved on to a key slide with...
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