Cultivating Resilience
Being able to recover from setbacks, challenges, and major difficulties not only applies to your personal life but also applies to your work and career as well.
A number of people leave jobs where they’ve experienced high stress, overwhelm, and even workplace trauma. 47% of working Canadians agree that their work is the most stressful part of their day. (Source: Workplace Strategies for Mental Health: Morneau Shepell. (2017). Media Room)
Finding your own ways to recover from setbacks and tough situations can help you move forward and cultivate resilience for future challenges.
And, as a leader, resilience can help you lead and expand into new opportunities. Having personal experience in cultivating your own resiliency can also help you support the people and teams you lead.
Here are some strategies to consider if you’re interested in continuing to build your own resilience:
UNLOCK the energy to focus
This is the next in a series of videos I’m sharing with you on the topic of ‘How to focus when it’s NOT business as usual’. And today’s specific topic is about UNLOCKING the energy to find FOCUS because it’s currently within you.
So for many of us, our professional roles may have changed significantly…and for some they’ve disappeared. And, we’ve taken on new roles like homeschooling and being an emotional support for anxious colleagues and employees.
It throws us into a strange situation of blending the personal and the professional.
When our circumstances are so uncertain and we miss and grieve for our old routines and structures it can be really easy to slip into the feeling of “letting things wait until this all over” OR ease into just “letting things go.”
We need a reason to get going each day professionally and we need that internal motivation to stay front-of-mind.
And if you’re struggling with that right now, of staying internally motivated, this video is for you.
3 mistakes to avoid when taking that next Career step
Everyone has their own way of navigating career twists and turns.
However, there are some common themes (and mistakes) I’ve noticed that, if avoided, could actually improve your opportunities or make career changes more successful (and easier) for you.