Leadership isolation is real, widely experienced and almost never discussed — this blog explores the identity trap it creates, and why developing the Support Network and Resilience Wheel dimensions is the only sustainable answer to it.

This blog explores what it actually feels like to lead well in a VUCA world — the difference between genuine composure and the performance of it, and what develops in a leader when the four VUCA Prime capabilities move from theory into daily practice.

How do you feel about your Leadership role? Overwhelmed, uncertain and unclear? How would you like to feel energised, enthused, confident and focussed?

Building your Confidence is one of the specific Dimensions of building your Resilience. This is achieved by better understanding your balance of helpful and unhelpful thoughts about your abilities to achieve day to day.

We have roughly 50 000 thought per day and over half of those are negative. Over 90% of are thoughts are also fro yesterday, which will also, therefore, be mostly negative too!

The key to Resilient Reflection is to ensure you start with your achievements.

How do you ensure that your reflections are meaningful and purposeful and provide genuine insights into your experiences? How you learn, from your reflections, is unique to you, however, we often don’t take the right approach to clarifying what has been both helpful and unhelpful about our recent experiences.

A Resilient Team and Organisation has to have a Trusting Culture. The benefits of Trust, enable collaboration, great decision making, improved performance, productivity and creativity, to name a few! How many more benefits of trust can you highlight?

A Strengths based approach doesn’t ignore deficits, however, it is important to talk about Strengths first in order counter-act the natural human negativity bias!

When people are truly Resilient then they are “living”in a space of Thrive, rather than coping or surviving.

Thriving Leaders know their Strengths, are optimistic, know their Strengths and capabilities and can genuinely see challenges as opportunities. They are “enjoying” themselves most of the time, even if they are dealing with difficult situations.