How Developing Resilience Can Make You a Better Leader?
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Resilience is a crucial trait for leaders, allowing them to overcome adversity and effectively manage stress in the workplace. Organizations are encouraged to implement resilience training, coaching, and foster positive relationships to enhance this quality in employees. Leaders must model resilience and create a supportive environment to promote team collaboration and productivity.
How Developing Resilience Can Make You a Better Leader?
- 1. + How Developing Resilience Can Make You a Better Leader? By David Kiger Image courtesy of Ken Whytock at Flickr.com
- 2. + Resilience is known as the capacity one develops to overcome something and bounce back from the adversity. This resilience may be a natural trait in certain people, but despite this it has been proven that it can also be developed in those who don’t have it. It has actually started to become a common workplace trait companies look for when finding new talent. An employee who is defined by resilience will most likely deal well with situation where he or she is put under stress and especially in today’s workplace this is essential. Flexibility, strength, speed of recovery and durability are just some of the words that are used to bring context to resilience in the many online sources. People with this trait can deal better with the demands and tasks they are asked to undertake. These people would be ideal for positions that require constant shifts of priorities and a heavy workload. This quality, which should be active rather than passive, can be a lifelong process at a personal and professional level. When put in the right position, anyone can develop a series of habits that allow them to perform better under pressure. A resilient person within a company, especially one in a position of leadership will guide those around them towards the light at the end of the tunnel.
- 3. + Being a characteristic most companies want their employees to have they should all start setting in place a variety of aids that can enhance their employees’ resilience. Initially, consider including resilience training programs that can focus on teaching the workforce to deal with work-related stress, as well as challenges that may present themselves along the way in a positive and proactive manner. Coaching and mentoring will also be a must, so that you can really focus on the development of each key employee. A coaching process will be more about monitoring current performance and skills, whereas a mentoring process will be about long-term career development. Lastly, create spaces where employees can engage in physical activity, be it an active pause or create a sports tournament. There has been a known direct correlation between their mental health and exercise, which at the same time generates a high level of resilience. Another consideration is that in some cases a person’s lifestyle can have a direct influence on their capability to have resilience in difficult situations.
- 4. + In your workplace, if resilience becomes a trait that is needed in your organization, you will need leaders that are able to lead by example. If they are not naturally resilient, you can go about developing and honing their skills to improve this and allow them to become the kind of leader that can help your organization’s performance and capacity to work under pressure, meet deadlines and set priorities based on the needs of the company.
- 5. + As a company you can help your employees as a whole become more resilient, but this will have to begin from the top. Initially your leaders will need to create a support system that generates good relationships and motivates interaction. Their view of how to deal with problems will need to turn into a learning process that can be used to create opportunities to master skills and build achievement. The only way that this will happen effectively is that the leader of your team avoids turning every crisis into a dramatic situation that only creates stress. Besides avoiding conflict, the leader must also celebrate success not only of others, but the administrative or leaders as well. This will keep your mind frame positive and away from negativity and failure. Goals that are set must be realistic and have a purpose, the smaller and more tangible the better. Positivity in all its shades is necessary for leaders, from the position they take when making decision to nurturing a positive view of employees and their work, skills and shortcomings. When analyzing challenges, leaders must be realistic and place these on the big picture context that will be put on the list of lifelong personal and professional development. And finally being optimistic, will allow them to see the good in every bad situation, and have this directly influence how you think about it. If you have good thoughts, your actions will most probably follow suit.
- 6. + Thriving in the midst of adversity as leaders will bring with it many different characteristics, as you can read more about on the David Kriger on the SlideShare page, including resilience. So, as was said before it all has to start from the leaders. But if the leader needs to develop resilience as well, there are certain steps you can take as a company and as a leader to ensure this occurs. First of all, the leader must realize it’s not all about you. When a negative event occurs there must be a realization that simply sometimes bad things happen and it’s not necessarily someone’s fault. So as a leader learn to control what you can and accept what you can’t. Always pay attention to the relationships that are forged with your teams and employees to ensure that you can lead by example under difficult situations. Resilience will lead your company into a new mind set that will for sure bring productivity, high levels of performance, and collaboration.