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
Follow our weekly updates for insights and practices offered by our Certified RL Coaches and Trainers. Learn with and from these RL experts as they work to deepen their knowledge and practice of Resilient Leadership.
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.
How to Break the Cycle of the Damaging Effects of a VUCA World
In early 2020 we entered the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) world big time. These four words, which are borrowed from the description of the world at the end of the Cold War by the US military, certainly apply to today’s highly anxious 24/7 COVID world as well.
Staying Resilient in a Time of Uncertainty
Bridgette Theurer Presents “Staying Resilient in a Time of Uncertainty” Resilient Leadership Partner, Bridgette Theurer, recently made a presentation to
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What makes me so anxious in my leadership role these days?
Are you headed for a really challenging moment? Or day? Or year? Are you about to come face-to-face with a potentially volatile situation? A situation filled with uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity? A situation that you have not faced before. Welcome to your VUCA World.