Episode 15 - Resiliency: This is Going to Hurt a Little
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
Release Date: 12/18/2020
Episode 36 - No, Thank You
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
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Episode 35 – Allow Me
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
When it comes to building a healthy culture, there is no greater or more impactful example of culture than that of leadership. Research continues to show that many of the world’s most profitable companies attribute a great deal of their success to their organizational culture. At the forefront of these organizations are leaders who actively, regularly, and genuinely display the type of behavior desired for all of its members. Some leaders equate their high visibility to constantly being put under the microscope. They describe the...
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Episode 34 - I'm Sorry I Asked
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
Employee surveys can be a great source of information. They can provide an intimate perspective of certain facets of the organization which may go unseen or unexperienced by leadership. However, sometimes organizations are not prepared for the insight they receive. They may feel that certain initiatives or decisions should be met with affirmation and positive accolades, only to find out that part of the employee population feels differently. What do we do now? Some organizations view the insight as a humbling experience and use it...
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Episode 33 - Crawl Before You Walk
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
John Maxwell said “A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.” All too often, organizations are held hostage by their own people. What does that mean? We’re so glad you asked. Being held hostage by your people is a dynamic that explains leaders who do more to withhold knowledge and experience than to share it with others. When these leaders leave for new opportunities, the organization is left scrambling to recreate that knowledge or...
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Episode 32 - The Bold and The Atypical
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
We often hear that effective leadership requires bold decisions and behavior. However, servant leadership principles tend to illustrate a very different type of leader from what most people are accustomed to. While we don’t disagree with the premise that leaders need to be bold, we want to look at the term through a different lens in this episode. One definition illustrates the word “bold” as showing the ability to take risks; to be confident and courageous. Here, again, we wouldn’t disagree with that interpretation. However, it’s...
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Episode 31 - Getting Around to Dealing with Conflict
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
Why are we still so afraid of conflict? Why do we assume the mere presence of conflict is always negative? When it comes to addressing conflict, there is an immediate assumption that the conversation/interaction will go poorly and possibly lead to something much worse. Years ago, we used to rate a successful marriage by how little a couple fought. It wasn’t uncommon to hear a story about a husband and wife who had been married for forty years and how they “never had a fight.” ...
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Episode 30 - The Air You Can Wear
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
Nothing describes a late summer day in Central Pennsylvania better than the three H’s…hazy, hot and humid. But what do the three H’s have to do with leadership? While you can’t necessarily see the humidity outside simply by looking through your office window, you most certainly feel its presence the second you venture outdoors. When we think of those of who have influenced us over time, most likely it’s not their physical appearance or blatant actions we recall. As Maya Angelou once opined “I've learned that people will forget what you said,...
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Episode 29 - Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
Today’s workforce is one of the most diverse in history. Workers fall into one of five (yes five) different generations. While diversity and inclusion continue to garner a great deal of attention, organizations and leaders are struggling to address tension and conflict when it comes to many different people working together and interacting with one another. Perception is not always reality. We like to say that our perceptions may be our reality, but are they truly reality? One of the greatest...
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Episode 28 - Finding the Big Impact in the Little Things
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
When is the last time you paused and gave thanks for the things in your life that you know to be true and good? There is growing research on the multitude of benefits associated with gratitude. From physical benefits such as the ability to lower stress and create better sleep habits, to psychological benefits like increased satisfaction and resilience; implementing a regular practice of gratitude can have a significant impact on our lives. Taking time each day to be grateful can actually play a role in how our brains are wired. A concept...
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Episode 27 - High Expectations or High Adherence
Leadership Insight with Rising Sun
“We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don’t quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.” -Jack Welch Oftentimes, leaders set high expectations for their organizations and their employees in order to maintain relevance and maximize potential. However, many leaders wind up expressing disappointment and frustration when those expectations aren’t met. Why do so many well-intentioned leaders have employees who consistently fall short of or fail to...
info_outlineIn this episode, we start a new series centered on a word that quickly became synonymous with 2020 and the ability to handle adversity; resilience. It’s our position that the ability to be resilient is comprised of three factors: personality, or our natural resilience; experience, or our exposure to adversity thus far; and skill set, or the tools we’ve developed in order to become more resilient.
Two fundamental points stressed in the podcast are these:
- Our ability to be resilient equates to our ability to not just survive, but thrive.
- Capacity for resilience is something we can work to build and grow.
When it comes to facing adversity and being resilient, there are some individuals who seem to display a natural resilience about them. While there are characteristics that tend to better align with resilience, we shouldn’t assume that said traits automatically translate to resilience. Conversely, we shouldn’t conclude that other traits instantly signify a lack of resilience. Substantial stress and associative resilience will look differently to everybody.
It’s also important to look at how resilience was viewed and practiced in the past. Some may have faced the adversity head on; taking away valuable lessons in the process. Others may have operated from a standpoint of avoidance or reverted back to a place of strength or comfort. Others still, may simply have not been exposed to a great deal of adversity. As a result, they haven’t had much of an opportunity to practice resilience or benefit from important takeaways.
Resilient individuals don’t allow adversity to permanently define them. They know who they are at the core and rely on those truths and values to assist them in overcoming adversity. Furthermore, they respect the possibility of future adversity without allowing it to consume their present. In other words, they prepare for the future methodically and logically now in order to better respond in the future when emotions may be heightened.
This is not to say they will be fully prepared for all outcomes or respond without making mistakes. Rather, it helps to start a shift in mindset that while adversity is a fact of life; it can be overcome.
While much of our resilience will take place in how we react to adversity, we feel there is a proactive side to resilience as well. The priority we give to developing resilience and learning new skills in the process will aid in building our capacity for resilience and ultimately better position us to handle adversity in a healthier and productive manner going forward.