Here's how you can cultivate resilience in a leadership role.
To enhance their resilience, leaders need to identify the coping mechanisms that allow them to relieve tension and regain their positive energy. These stress management options include “talking out” worries and concerns, doing something for others and healthful eating.
Leading a vision to navigate through times of uncertainty, encounter failure and lead your team to success in unpredictable landscape. Leader needs to be adaptable, proactive, and, perhaps most importantly, resilient.
“Resilience is the capacity to not only endure great challenges, but get stronger in the midst of them,” says Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn.
Resilient leaders tend to:
a. Maintain emotional equilibrium and their composure under stress.
b. Communicate confidence and steadiness during difficult times.
c. Have the support necessary to cope with emotional overload.
In a professional environment, leaders typically display resilience in several ways:
- Instead of falling into despair or hiding from problems with unhealthy coping strategies, resilient people face difficulties head-on.
- They are unflappable in the face of intense and stressful situations, even those that are totally unexpected or out of the ordinary.
- They possess a high tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty and are able to quickly adapt to these new circumstances.
- They look after their own mental and physical well-being - knowing that they need a good bill of health in order to perform at the optimal level.
- They are measured and confident in how they communicate at all times which instills confidence in their leadership.
- They have a good handle on reality, both in terms of being able to put mistakes or setbacks into perspective and also by setting achievable goals.
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