In an era where business keeps moving faster, it is no small wonder that resilience has become the new must-have executive skill. While executives have always known about the personal benefits of being resilient, they haven’t always recognized that it is also needed for the sake of their teams and organizational health.
To Build Your Resilience, Ask Yourself Two Simple Questions
Executives have always known about the personal benefits of being resilient. But they don’t always recognize that it is also needed for the sake of their teams and organizational health. So how do you maintain your calm when the roof is falling on you? One way, of course, is to fake it. You act confident and put on a bold front. This may work, but putting on and maintaining a mask is strenuous and perceptive members will discern the truth. Trust will erode.
There is a better way. You can be genuinely unfazed by the reverse you experience. To pull this off, you need to practice a new way of looking at the world. Here is the three-step process:
1) Be clear regarding what you are about to classify as a “bad thing” and why?
2) Ask yourself this question: “Is there any possible scenario by which this could actually turn out to be a ‘good thing’ some day?”
3) Ask yourself the next question: “What can I — and my team — do to make this scenario come about. How can we turn this event into a “good thing” that we can all celebrate some day in the future?”