From fog to focus
“The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.” Victor Frankl
All organizations in today’s workplace are working to keep up with a busy pace and ensuring that goals are met and shareholders are considered. To best benefit from a productive workforce, your managers and employees need to understand not only how to manage stress, but to respond with resilience when faced with challenges.
In the workplace, the biggest energy drain is dealing with difficult people or managing office politics. Of course, the sheer volume or pace of work or constantly changing priorities can also stretch you to your limits, or when you have to withstand personal criticism.
Resilience is an individual’s response, capacity and methods used to allow them to prevent, tolerate, overcome and be enhanced by events and experiences perceived to be stressful. Developing resilience is a personal journey involving thoughts, behavior and actions. Anyone can do it.
Coaching helps you rebuild your resilience when it’s a crash, not a wobble. Through coaching, you can identify the individual factors that cause you stress, you will learn how to set clearer boundaries and deal with energy thieves. Through coaching you will also improve your self-confidence, discover your inner strength, gain a new perspective, achieve balance in your life, and take control again.
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Articles on Resilience
9 Habits of Politically Savvy People
Leaders, The term ‘Politics’ is based on the words ‘Poly’ and ‘Ticks’, ‘Poly’ meaning many, and ‘Ticks’ meaning blood-sucking parasites. Whenever people’s priorities, values, and interests diverge, some type of politicking usually takes place. Office politics are inevitable, and involve intentional acts of influence to enhance or protect the [...]
Developing Strengths
Leaders, How much time and effort do you devote to developing your own and others’ strengths? And, conversely, how much time do you invest in fixing your own and others’ shortcomings? Does your staff have the opportunity to do what they do best every day? All leaders have their own [...]
Taking Charge: Managing and Overcoming Fear
Leaders, Fear is one of the biggest stumbling blocks people encounter in managing change and moving forward. It heightens your stress level, activates your fight and flight instinct, and can cause you to wake up at night worrying. Your capacity and ability to pay attention is being limited or shut [...]
Managing Stress and Building Resilience: Quick Tips
Leaders, Resilience is that indescribable capability that helps us bounce back from adversity and leadership setbacks – qualities that are crucial in today’s business environment. Building and strengthening your resilience muscle takes time, attention, tenacity and patience. It also requires a decent amount of self-awareness that enables you to realize [...]
Managing Stress and Building Resilience (Interview with the CFA Institute)
Leaders, The CFA Institute (CFA = Chartered Financial Analyst | http://cfainstitute.org) invited me to join their annual conference that was held in Frankfurt, 26 – 28 April 2015. Around 1,100 attendees had the opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest of research in the industry, to network and to [...]
Self-Control and What it Takes …
Leaders, Haven’t we all had the experience of doing something in the heat of the moment that we regretted later? Wasn’t that almost as if our rational mind stopped and what came out not only surprised us but everyone else around? This overwhelming emotional reaction is called ‘amygdala hijack’ (as [...]