Resilience and Leadership Competence

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Resilience and Leadership Competence

• Lisa Margerum

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Session Objectives

• Examine why this relationship is important for
  leaders in business
• Describe resilience
• 2-minute lit review
• Examine potential relationship between resilience
  and leadership competence within a business
  environment
• Questions??

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Why? Change

• Leadership by definition, is steeped in change
• The greater the change, the greater the effort
  to lead and assimilate the change
• Resilience helps the leader to better use her
  skills to implement change

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Take this quiz
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So what is resilience?

• Resilience is merely the skill and the capacity
  to be robust under conditions of enormous stress
  and change. Diane Coutu
• Strengths and resources that enable individuals
  and families to respond successfully to crises
  and persistent challenges and to recover and grow
  from the experiences. -- Froma Walsh
• Dynamic process encompassing positive
  adaptations within a context of significant
  adversity. Suniya Luthar
• From negative to zero
• Also known as hardiness or coping
• A process, not a trait

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A brief historical review

• Werner study -- 1989
• Longitudinal study of children-at-risk in Kauai
• Under what influences do some children break
  out?
• Protective factors
• Garmezy, Luthar and others followed
• Children Families Alcoholics
  School professionals Individuals
  Professionals

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Reivitch and Shátte 2002The Resilience Factor

• Extension of resilience definition
• One cannot only survive but thrive in lifes
  situations
• From zero to positive
• Recreate positives
• 7 factors of resilience

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Factors of Resilience

• Impulse Control not allowing desire to override
  reason
• Self-efficacy belief that I am effective in
  this world
• Empathy how well I read cues about others
  emotional and psychological states
• Emotional Regulation ability to stay calm under
  pressure

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Factors

• Reaching Out knowing when to ask for help and
  guidance
• Optimism Belief that things can change for the
  better and that I can control my situation
• Causal Analysis Accurately identify the causes
  of my problems

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Testing plan

• Test a sample of corporate leaders on both
  leadership competence and resilience factors
• Two reliable and valid tests
• Look at relationships between the values is
  there a relationship between any of the variables

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Leadership Competencies Spencer and
Lominger

• Makes things happen
• Anticipates challenges
• Sets goals
• Energizes others
• Fosters experimental climate
• Builds competitive advantage
• Makes crucial and timely decisions
• Uses resources in decision-making
• Leads strategic change
• Promotes innovation

• Analyzes complex situations
• Grasps problems quickly
• Applies Learned Concepts
• Takes long-term perspective
• Develops strategies
• Builds personal strengths
• Creates new concepts
• Anticipates risks
• Coordinates resources

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Leadership Competencies

• Influences others
• Adapts to audience
• Plans impact
• Convinces others to buy-in
• Uses experts
• Networks to gain support
• Maintains good customer relations
• Understands customers needs

• Communicates clear vision
• Empowers others
• Develops employees
• Identifies talent
• Cultivates diversity
• Views others perspectives
• Fosters teamwork
• Empowers high performing teams

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Possible connections