Remember, effective leadership is not about shielding your team from all stress, but rather equipping them with the tools and support they need to navigate both challenges and obstacles effectively.
At STC, we say Resilience is the advancing through adversity!
We believe this definition gives us the comprehensiveness we need to intentionally work on our resilience. It’s both descriptive and prescriptive.
No one wants to believe that their attitudes and actions are the result of any sort of conditioning, but that’s most likely the case if we’re navigating life lacking sufficient self-awareness and intentionality.
We call this Drifting
We now have scientific evidence supporting the notion that our intelligence stems from our brain, heart, and gut.
The most effective leaders are capable of tapping into both their emotions and intuitions to inform their critical thinking.
Flourishing individuals in flourishing relationships in a flourishing environment can’t lose.
High performance is taxing and there are realities we can’t look away from or just pretend everything is going well when it’s not.
But some of the research we’re going to explore today does emphasize the importance of positivity or “positive emotions” in creating healthy, high performing environments. In fact it may help us realize the value in a little negativity as well.
In this issue, we’re going to highlight a few of the unexpected societal sleep trends, Calm revealed in the Snooze Report they released in Q4 of 2023, and discuss their implications on our leadership effectiveness.
Character development is foundational to leadership development. Yet, it often takes a back seat to other aspects of leadership development.
At any given moment, we’re either languishing or flourishing. Drifting away from our intentions or driving forward with purpose.
High performance is not what you can do it is what you can recover from. Throughout his time coaching in the NFL, Mike McDaniel has experienced the joys of flourishing and the lows of burnout and languishing. Now, later in his career (even though he’s only 40) he is showing the power of recovery and perspective in leading transformationally.