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Facing Change in an Era of Uncertainty

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Facing Change in an Era of Uncertainty

#leadership in times of crisis and uncertainty requires three core elements: 1.) Executive Presence - the ability to build trust and confidence so that others can "keep calm and carry on". 2.) Resilience - the ability to flex, adapt, and build our "psychological capital" to weather the storm 3.) Strategic Mindset - the ability to see current circumstances from multiple viewpoints of risk management, opportunity, innovation and agility. #ExecutivePresence #Resilience #Strategi

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The Poetry of Resilience: Inspiration at Hand!

Greetings Dear Readers, Sometimes if you’re dealing with change and challenge it’s great to have something on hand to inspire you. I have a favorite resilience poem to share – many of you may have heard it before from our beloved poet laureate Maya Angelou: Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I wal

Leadership Resilience Quote of the Day

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Leadership Resilience Quote of the Day

Good morning dear readers. Whatever your political persuasion, I want to share a quote from our President’s speech of last night – I was struck specifically when he talked about hope. When we look at great leadership and how we develop resilience in ourselves, on our teams, and in our organizations, one of our top jobs is instilling a sense of hope and possibility, even during times of stress. According to the cutting edge research being done on Psychological Capital in the w

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Resilience Quote of the Day: People who Soar

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Resilience Attributes: Empathy – Can You Stand in My Shoes?

Empathy is a primary key to conflict resolution. However, like other keys, it tends to go missing just when we need it. In fact, some filmmakers felt so strong about it’s importance, they’ve begun a movie project, called Stand in My Shoes. From their website: Do we have an “empathy deficit”? We see the costs of our “me-first” mindset: record breakdowns in relationships, endemic corruption, environmental degradation, inequitable social structures, and a whole generation incre

Resilience Attributes: Are You Really Collaborative?

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Resilience Attributes: Are You Really Collaborative?

Resilience requires us not just to be flexible and adaptable, but to have supportive relationships with others who can help us when the going gets tough. Supportive relationships aren’t all about helping each other through challenges; sometimes they are about breakthroughs, innovations, and excellence in results! I seriously doubt Blogger employee, Evan Williams thought he would be partnering with, then-rival-Google employee, Biz Stone. But the social networking world ! When

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NYC Shooting: What Do We Do Back at Work After Violence?

Greetings Dear Readers, The shooting at the Empire State Building today by a laid-off worker reminds me of work I’ve done in organizations after episodes of violence and loss. I’ve worked with executive teams who’ve lost members and companies who have been traumatized by terrorism, and it can be so difficult to know what to do as a leader with such powerful and potent emotion. How do we bounce-back from horror, fear, or grief at work? How do we lead people who have been traum

Are you an Optimist?

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Are you an Optimist?

Imagine you are 18, a bomb goes off on the humvee you are driving in Iraq. A million thoughts are going through your head. You aren’t even supposed to be here. You are supposed to be a football star. You watch as your hand melts unrecognizably. You are brought to the hospital to treat burn injuries with more than 30 reconstructive surgeries. Your face will never look the same. Everything has changed, and you have no say in it. That’s exactly what happened to JR Martinez. He c

We should all be more like Gumby.

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We should all be more like Gumby.

If we go to the dictionary, we’ll find that it’s the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity. Doesn’t sound comfortable, does it? Kind of like when Paul McCartney tried out for the choir of the Liverpool Cathedral. He didn’t make it because they didn’t think he was a good enough singer.Not his best day, no doubt. Talk about being bent, compressed and emotionally stretched. He got his revenge, of c

Resilience and Self-Awareness

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Resilience and Self-Awareness

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” Lao Tzu Mike Judge was the kid who was always doodling in class. He would crack his classmates up with the funny caricatures of his teachers. Of course, along with the admiration, he was told he needed to grow up and get serious. Which he did… for a while. He got a degree in physics and became an engineer. It wasn’t his passion, but he did it. Until he realized t That realizat

Resilience & Confidence

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Resilience & Confidence

It moved him. That night he scrawled “chapter one” on a legal pad. Three agonizing years later, A Time to Kill was born. “I had never worked so hard in my life, nor imagined that writing could be such an effort. It was more difficult than laying asphalt, and at times more frustrating than selling underwear. But it paid off. Eventually, I was able to leave the law and quit politics. Writing’s still the most difficult job I’ve ever had — but it’s worth it.” – John Grisham Commi

Lemonade and the Resilience at Work Questionnaire – NOW AVAILABLE!

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Lemonade and the Resilience at Work Questionnaire – NOW AVAILABLE!

Greetings compatriots! It is my distinct pleasure to announce that we have now got Lemonade: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work available on Amazon.com in print and Kindle editions, as well as the Resilience at Work Questionnaire (RAW-Q) available to take immediately. Yippee! Watch my blog for updates, special offers, and tips to develop your own resilience. How do leaders deal with the lemons of difficult circumstances and make lemonade? Lemonade is a user-friendly guid

Personal Resilience Planning

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Personal Resilience Planning

Greetings readers! Choose an area that you really want to work on: Think about things that you personally want to change, enhance and develop. For instance if you are impatient you may want to list that, or if you tend to be self-critical that may be something to look at in your journey toward resilience. Be picky: Tailor your choice of activity to your current lifestyle and be picky about when you work your plan. If you are burned out from working long hours, you may have tr

What’s Your Story?

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What’s Your Story?

Every day we create narratives around events that happen to us. If they are bad, the tapes that run through are mind are usually, Oh my gosh, this is so tough; why does this have to be so complicated; or Ugh, Why do they have to be so annoying? When we encounter problems, it’s easy to create doomsday stories to go along with them. These stories make up a large part of our experience. The only problem is that our stories create attitudes that, unless we’re careful, affect how

Resilience at Work: Announcing the RAW-Q!

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Resilience at Work: Announcing the RAW-Q!

The Resilience at Work Questionnaire looks at our unique strengths in how we adapt to and bounce back from change and challenge. We can succumb to stresses and trauma, or we can rise above them. Despite how it may feel, the choice is yours to make. That’s empowering! Resilience is surviving and thriving; it’s the ability to make the lemons of our experiences into lemonade. The tartness of lemons just needs the counterbalance of a little sugar to make some great lemonade—just

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Never Give Up

I enjoy poetry – particularly when I need to shift my thinking or do a reset. Someone sent me this poem during my adoption process which was a four-year-long adventure, one that did not look like it was going to work out happily like it did in the end. I share it with you to inspire your resilience! Never give up, there are chances and changes, Helping the hopeful, a hundred to one; And, through the chaos, High Wisdom arranges Ever success, if you’ll only hold on. Never gi