Toughness and resilience Leadership

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3.  A leader should have elastic capacity of recovering from
crisis
 Toughness is ability to control emotions and persevere
challenges
 Leader should be firm and kind in their actions
 As a leader, bouncing back challenge and remain steady
and stable is important
 Toughness and resilience is realized when leaders use
mental processes and behaviors to protect one from
effect of stressor
 Leaders learn and evolve after misstep and setback by
following strategies:

4.  What does not kill, make one stronger
 There is a lesson after a misstep
 Remain optimistic on lessons, the glass is
half full analogy
 Loss, mistakes and misstep are inevitable.
The purpose should what you learn from
them.
 Taking a step back and breath is important
Learn a lessons from mistake
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5.  To take care of others, you have to take
care of yourself first
 A Leader should set aside time for
activities that contribute to well being. For
example, a walk in the park.
 A leader is not a slave of work. Balancing
work and health can boost resilience
 Sleep well, eat well and exercise well.
Take time to indulge yourself
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6.  Resilience calls for adapting to diverse
cultures and personalities
 A leader should understand basic life
principle, many things might not go your
way.
 Accept failure as a friend
 Leaders should have patience in
understanding others ability to learn at
their pace.
Have an open mind
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7.  A leader should focus on intrinsic
driving forces
 As its explained in psychology, intrinsic
drives last longer than external
motivators
 If the drive is from within, a leader
becomes more resilient
Be aware of what triggers you
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8.  This is fearless-based consciousness
 Leaders who fear succumb to pressure
 Fearless sometime will mean being
unpopular by pushing junior staffs out
of comfort zone
 Other times, it means being there for
staffs experiencing difficulties
Willing to get fired a very day
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9.  For resilience, a leader should view
work as overall productivity and
results
 A leader operate on objective and
realities
Obsessed with productivity & results
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Breakout Session
Quiz
1. How are you taking care of yourself? Is it enough?
2. Which toughness and resilience traits do you possess?

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Reference:
Toughness and resilience Leadership
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