You need to master 'this' skill; to be effective leader

Bouncing Back: Resilience

                Everyone someday will have to face some problems. Some get crushed because of the problem and some found to be more optimistic and more aggressive to solve that problem. Those who got crushed are less tough, they lack resilience. But those who get up, show up & try to win are the ones with greatest toughness. Most of the times leaders are found to have these qualities.

                Leaders need to be like rubber balls and just keep bouncing back! The ability to strike back from adversity, regroup, re-organise and get going again, rather than lamenting and stewing over past mistakes, failures disappointments or hurts, is one of the greatest attributes of a leader. People can easily crumble when they fail, make a mistake or wrongly assess something, but the strength of leader is truly determined in the ability to bounce back.

                Martina Navratilova lost twenty one of her first twenty four matches against her arch rival Chris Evert. She resolved to hit more freely on the big points, and the ensuring transformation beat Evert thirty nine out of their next fifty seven matches. No woman tennis player has ever won as many matches or tournaments. The first children’s book written by Theodore S. Geisel or Dr. Seuss was rejected by twenty three publishers. The twenty fourth publisher sold six million copies. Both Martina Navratilova and Theodore Geisel mastered the art of bouncing back.

                The art of turning tragedy into investment is one of the qualities everyone needs to possess. If you are involved in leadership, you will have failures and flops. Leaders require the inner emotional and spiritual resolve to bounce back from the life jolting tragedies which so easily cripple others. It’s not that we pursue misfortune, disadvantage, problems or failures; they come our way regardless. It is the leaders’ leader who is able to pull together inner resources and launch out again, setting his or her sails to catch what’s left of the gale.

                To learn from past failures and mistakes is to not be crippled by them. A very wise man once said that the only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stone is the way we use them.

                The relational leader is a big thinker characterised by passion, desire, the will to win and a joie de vivre, no matter how tough times get. Such a person is conviction driven, relying upon deeply held inner values to sustain and nourish their dreams, so that they keep growing, building and nurturing relationships with the big people they retain all around them. By so doing they accomplish deeds greater than others can ever imagine. They are risk-takers who take a chance on dreams and put their faith in the hands of those who assist them. Such people are truly effective relational leaders who go on to build big people.

                Master-Minds have been training individuals at personal as well as corporate levels to train them on different aspects. Resilience is the basic skill which will give you the sense and responsibility of leadership. Mastering ‘this’ skill will have extraordinary impact in your professional as well as personal life, you will see every adversity as opportunity.

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Source: Attitude and altitudes.