Resilient Leadership Archives

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The Baggage We Carry

The Baggage We Carry

When we travel, we decide what items to pack based on the journey. Physical luggage is finite: it has a set size and a defined capacity.

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Build Your Listening Mojo

Build Your Listening Mojo

There is so much that calls for our attention: Information is flooding our inboxes and our social media, not to mention the steady flow of communications from professional colleagues and from our inner circles of family and friends.

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A Sturdy Family Root System

A Sturdy Family Root System

He provided great strength for our family root system, and his influence touched each family member in a different, yet impactful way.

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Middle-Managers

Middle Managers – the “Unsung Heroes of Our Age”

Managing the performance of others can be a source of chronic anxiety at any level of leadership. Those in the position of Middle Manager often feel they are stuck between “a rock and a hard place.”

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The Butterfly – The Danger of Helping Too Much

If you are overfunctioning in your leadership role, there is underfunctioning somewhere in the system you lead.

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Navigating Succession: A Leader’s Journey To Successful Transition

Navigating Succession: A Leader’s Journey To Successful Transition

My situation illustrates 2 of Resilient Leadership’s key principles—anxiety is contagious, and the leader’s anxiety is most contagious of all!

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What-is-the-pathway-forward-from-a-VUCA-Challenge

What is the pathway forward from a VUCA Challenge?

The level of anxiety we face worldwide is extreme and escalating due to a confluence of many complex issues. As a leader, you are the one people look to for clear direction, encouragement, and stability.

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Leading Through Resistance and Sabotage

Navigating Resistance: A Leader’s Guide

Leaders face many situations as they attempt to lead change. Inevitably, they bump up against resistance that feels like deliberate sabotage and often struggle with how to respond.

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In-toxic-work-environments

Toxicity in the Workplace: A Conversation We Need to Have

In toxic work environments, employees experience high levels of stress, communication is limited, blame becomes the norm, and harmful attitudes and actions are rewarded.

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Using-Physical-Relaxation-Practices-to-be-Less-Anxious

Using Physical Relaxation Practices to be Less Anxious

Leaders face significant challenges as they attempt to stay connected to their dispersed colleagues while at the same time exerting a positive influence on those they lead.

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Dispersed Work Force

Staying Connected with a Dispersed Workforce

Leaders face significant challenges as they attempt to stay connected to their dispersed colleagues while at the same time exerting a positive influence on those they lead.

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What Can I Learn About My Reactivity?

What Can I Learn About My Reactivity?

What Can I Learn About My Reactivity? The positive, healthy kind that keeps us alive and flourishing and hyperreactivity that

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VUCA World's Fair

VUCA – It’s Been Around for Awhile

Recently, very challenging situations have been labeled VUCA challenges highlighting that the systems-level solutions must simultaneously deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

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Balance the Seesaw

Balance the Seesaw

VUCA challenges often have immediate and long-term consequences that are far-reaching in scope. VUCA challenges are system-level challenges in that the causes, impacts, and solutions require thinking and acting from a perspective that considers both natural and manmade systems.

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