Resilient Leadership Master Class
Check in on our Resilient Leadership Master Class practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind. Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK”, and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircle everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your email.
Lowering the Voltage: What Dogs, Vets, and Leaders Know About Anxiety
Being a Step-Down Transformer isn’t about suppressing emotion, or fixing others, it’s about regulating yourself well enough that you don’t unknowingly escalate existing stress.
Standing Steady: How to Lead with Conviction
At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain.
Cultivating & Calibrating Connection
At its best, a healthy leadership looks: responsive, energized, and still self-possessed. At its worst, conviction can harden.
RL Practice of the Month
Check in on practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind. Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK” and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircles everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your e-mail.
The Fine Line Between Conviction and Stubbornness
Without calm as our foundation, we become like emotional corks tossed about on a turbulent sea – reactive rather than responsive, at the mercy of circumstances rather than in command of our choices.
Seeing the Whole: How Leaders Practice Systems Thinking
Like metallurgists ensuring the proper balance of chromium, nickel, and iron, leaders must notice not just the major crises but also the nuance of subtle shifts that signal the organization’s balance is changing.
Finding Calm in the Moment
Standing outside the room, I leaned on what I’ve learned about managing stress to keep my anxious energy from entering the session with me.
True Resilience is Regenerative sent
“This story from a client is not uncommon. In situations like Joan’s, the old maxim “Fake it ‘til you make it” might feel necessary. Inauthenticity aside, it can be useful in the short-term by helping us show courage before we feel it or maintain composure while under pressure.”
A “Tactical Pause,” or an “SBF” to Focus Our Anxious Brain
As practitioners of Resilient Leadership, we employ several techniques to understand and manage chronic anxiety.
Anxiety’s Kryptonite? Curiosity!
Uncertainty, which brings unknowns and attendant fears, easily sparks anxiety which then triggers us to begin worrying.
Weekly Insights, Viewpoints, & Resources
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.