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Creating Resilience Through Proactive Planning

Five Steps to Prepare Your Organization We are in an age of disruption, with businesses facing challenges from every direction. The only way for organizations to survive is to become resilient—able to respond quickly and effectively when faced with a crisis. But building a resilient organization isn’t easy. It requires careful planning, thoughtful strategies, and a commitment from leaders at …

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How to survive uncertainty and remain hopeful?

Everyone comes across challenging times at one time or another. The 2020 pandemic has shed particular light on this topic and stretched many households to the brink of their mental well-being. In fact, the shadow of the lockdown still darkens many doorsteps, and some people have yet to recover from the mental impact it triggered. No matter how upsetting and …

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The Four Types of Resilience

About Resilience Resilience is defined as “the ability to bounce back from setbacks and challenges,” but this ability varies significantly from person to person. Nevertheless, the ability to overcome adversity is key to resilience. For example, it has been shown that resilient people can recognize and address the potential for failure but face their fears anyway and succeed. In addition, …

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The Five Characteristics of Resilient Leadership

No one is immune to setbacks and failures, but resilient leaders are better equipped to deal with them. They have five key characteristics that help them dust themselves off and keep moving forward. This article will discuss those five characteristics that scholars have identified as critical for resilient leadership. What exactly is resilience? The American Psychological Association (APA) defines resilience …

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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO BUILD RESILIENCE?

The Importance Of Resilience  It is going to improve your quality of life. The higher your levels of resilience, the better your psychological and physical health will be. Resilient people are less likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and depression and manage most facets of their life more efficiently. There is the added benefit of healthier relationships as well. One …

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Resiliency: Bouncing Back After a Setback

If you’re looking for a character trait to develop, it would be hard to argue against developing greater than “RESILIENCY”. Few people are successful at anything on their first try. What resiliency does is that it increases the odds of trying again. And again. And again, until the objective is met. The level of your success is heavily dependent on …

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How is your career mojo?

How is your career mojo? Navigating a return to work after a long absence can be daunting, especially if it requires securing a new position. Typically, most people rely on networking as a common strategy. However, with so many workers, managers, and leaders furloughed or laid off, the competition can be fierce. Add to that bias about long-term unemployment, and …

Pain is real. But so is hope.

What Not to Do When Life is Hard

When life is hard there are some things you can do to help yourself and manage your own circumstance. Don’t fall into blaming The first thing we typically do when something goes wrong is to blame. We blame others or ourselves, depending on the situation but blaming does no good whatsoever. It’s a waste of energy and keeps us focused …

Hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting - President Obama (2012).

WHAT IS HOPE AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Hope is one of those things that people don’t always understand well, though oddly enough, we all need it to live a happy, healthy life. After all, hope is what helps you see your situation and then shows you the way out. What is hope? According to the dictionary, hope is “a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain …