Resilient Leadership Master Class
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Lowering the Voltage: What Dogs, Vets, and Leaders Know About Anxiety
One of the most memorable concepts in Resilient Leadership is that of being a step-down transformer: cultivating the capacity to remain less anxious than those around you so that emotional intensity can diminish rather than escalate. Clients often tell me this is the idea they reach for first in moments of strain – at work, at home, and everywhere in between. My introduction to this concept didn’t come from Resilient Leadership, however. I first learned about it many years ago from my veterinarian.
Standing Steady: How to Lead with Conviction
Lead with conviction. It’s a simple phrase, but it requires deep practice. At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain and criticism is possible. It invites leaders to take a stand and to move forward without waiting for perfect conditions.
Cultivating & Calibrating Connection
Watching Alysa Liu perform her Olympic free skate, which earned her a gold medal, I noticed something beyond her technical brilliance. The arena was electric; the audience’s response was overwhelming – just watching from my couch, far from Milan, I felt caught up in the excitement and enthusiasm.
Balancing the Seesaw: Overfunctioning, Underfunctioning, and the Work In Between
Overfunctioning and underfunctioning, forms of anxiety-driven reactivity, are frequent topics in Resilient Leadership coaching. They exist in a reciprocal dynamic, like a seesaw: when one appears…
Transforming Triangles
After spending over two hours with a technical expert to troubleshoot issues with my cell phone, I ended up driving home with no resolution and a factory-reset phone that I would have to manually restore. On my silent, disconnected drive home without navigation or tunes…
The Patterns That Persist
Imagine someone who never moved on from the worst day of their life. She still wears the dress from that day. The table is still set. The once-white cake, now yellowed beneath layers of cobwebs, still sits where it was left. Time moved forward. She didn’t.
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.
A 10-Minute Practice for the Season Ahead
As summer gives way to fall, shifts in daylight, sleep, temperature, and time outdoors can influence mood and the body’s stress response.
What you do in the ninety seconds after?
A Resilient Leadership approach comes down to three moves, repeated over and over can provide calm, clarity, and conviction.
The Leadership Reset: How to End the Year Calm, Clear, and Connected
The most grounded leaders don’t just grind through December. They close it with intention. They step back, reflect, and reset.
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.
Weekly Insights, Viewpoints, & Resources
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I Grew Up A Little “Under the Radar”
One of the assumptions that I had always made was that the more knowledge and life experience I gained, the more comfortable I would be leading others. I have since learned that this isn’t necessarily the case. I experienced that knowledge, responsibility, and even age can actually increase anxiety.
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A Leader’s Presence is Contagious!
I had observed success in others who had specific skills in marketing, strategic thinking, financial acumen, or operational savvy, and some who just plain outworked everyone else. None of those attributes applied to me! Yet my continued success has been recognized and rewarded, moving me up the ladder of success during my entire career.
Exhausted? Burned Out? Frustrated? You may be Overfunctioning!
I learned a “new way of seeing.” I learned that over and under-functioning is anxiety driven and a reciprocal phenomenon. In other words, if I overfunction at work or in family life, others will under function…
Richard McLaughlin Shares His Story About Managing Toxic Triangles to Solve Complex Problems and Reduce Chronic Anxiety
Business Leaders are tasked with solving complex and intriguing challenges almost daily. In this edition of the RL Spotlight, a client of ours, Richard McLaughlin, shares his story of a significant challenge he faced and how…
Step-Down Transformer and A Life Threatening Mountain Emergency
Discover how leaders are applying Resilient Leadership principles in their lives and how it’s helping them rise above the turbulent forces of today’s emotional challenges, enough to even save a life!
Getting to the Core of Self-Differentiation
The growing complexity of an evolving brain suddenly reached a tipping point that made us capable not only of consciousness—the ability to sense and interact with our environment—but of self-consciousness.
Bridgette Theurer Discusses Over-functioning
Over Functioning – To think, feel or act for another person in a way that erodes that person’s capacity for ownership or effective action. Watch this short video of Bridgette Theurer as she shares important insights about Over Functioning and learn more about how you can avoid this trap in your life.