Resilient Leadership Master Class
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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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A New Way of LEADING — Embody and Communicate a Less Anxious Presence
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.
VUCA Survivors – At Least for Now
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.
Be Less Anxious, Stop Avoiding People and Lead with Conviction
What had I done? I created a triangle between myself, the mom, and the cashier impatiently waiting. My anxiety kept rising because I couldn’t lower the mom’s anxiety.
Overfunctioning and VUCA
I soon learned that the changes I had introduced had injected a significant amount of anxiety into what Friedman referred to as the family system of the church.
Energy, Vision, and Naiveté
I soon learned that the changes I had introduced had injected a significant amount of anxiety into what Friedman referred to as the family system of the church.
A Failure to Scale
A Failure to Scale Organizations may be able to do a successful “sprint” by asking leadership to go after short-term
Communicating a Calm Presence
Communicating a Calm Presence Sometimes a simple change in how we communicate is all it takes to begin the process
Reactivity, Which We Call the Public Face of Anxiety
Reactivity, Which We Call the Public Face of Anxiety The resilient leader is one who has learned to watch for
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