~ Resiliency ~
What is resiliency and why does it
matter? Resiliency is the ability to spring back from and
successfully adapt to adversity, to bounce back and try again. It is
the mental pattern that says, “we can work it out”, which leads to
solutions and strategies to move forward. In "The Adversity
Quotient", Paul Stoltz states that on average, we face 23
adversities each day, ranging from "a bad hair day" to a significant
crisis in our work or personal situations. Being able to meet
these challenges with composure, grace, and power without losing our
emotional control, our sense of self ,or our sanity is critical in our
successful navigation through life.
Change has always been a part of our
lives, but today, more than ever before, change is relentless.
Resilient people and organizations are survivors. They demonstrate a
unique capacity to turn setbacks into growth opportunities, to manage
in the uncertainty that accompanies an ever-changing environment.
The requirements are inner resources to break through challenges to
higher levels of performance – emotional intelligence provides these
internal resources. Developing emotional competence in order to
enhance resilience produces a psychological immunization against
adversity.
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“Ask
people…to recall two or three of the most important learning
experiences in their lives, and they will never tell you of
courses taken or degrees obtained, but of brushes with death, of
crisis encountered, of new and unexpected challenges and
confrontations. They will tell you, in other words, of times when
continuity ran out on them, when they had no past experience to
fall back on, no rules or handbook. They survived, however, and
came back stronger and more adaptable in mind and heart.”
-
Charles Handy, “The Age of Unreason”
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