Mindfulness & resilience: the secret of strong leadership

Mindfulness and resilience are skills that are indispensable in crisis mode. Resilient managers have great resilience and flexibility. They can act confidently even in moments of stress and look ahead to upcoming projects with confidence. They also find it much easier to deal with pressure and setbacks. This is precisely what makes mindfulness and resilience one of the most important management tools.

What can resilience achieve in leadership?

Resilience is the psychological resistance and adaptability to sudden changes and problems. The term describes the ability to access one's inner potential in order to master these situations. The benefits of this ability in day-to-day management are great.

• Improved performance and ability to concentrate
• Optimal time management
• More efficient working methods
• Faster solution finding
• Better state of health
• Overall effect on body, mind and soul

Through mindfulness and resilience, you can restore the balance between the stress and hectic pace of everyday life and inner peace. It's a kind of 'reset' button that you press when things get too much all around. Resilience is like a charging cable to recharge your inner battery.

These are the four basic attitudes of resilience in leadership

Your inner attitude has a major influence on what you achieve in the outside world. Some people naturally have a mindset with the most important basic attitudes that are a prerequisite for resilience. Others can acquire this mindset with the right training. If you need expert support, we will be happy to help you with our coaches and seminars. The "7 pillars of resilience" model, which was originally developed by psychologist Ursula Nuber, identifies 4 basic attitudes of resilience.

1. Acceptance
   Acceptance is, on the one hand, the ability to refrain from struggling with situations. They are what they are. Accepting what cannot be changed. On the other hand, it also refers to self-acceptance and self-acceptance.
2. Bonding
   Bonding with people in your private and professional environment is a kind of protective factor for body and soul. Relationships strengthen you and enable you to communicate clearly in different groups and roles. One of the most important qualities for building relationships is empathy.
3. Solution orientation
   When you are faced with problems and crises, you need to find solutions. It is important to create clear and achievable goals in order to overcome the crisis situation quickly.
4. Optimism
   Healthy optimism does not mean making light of things, but rather focusing on the positive. Healthy optimism means seeing the good in the bad.

If you are not born with these basic attitudes, you can learn them through three practices.

The first step in this direction is self-awareness. You need a good and strong relationship with yourself in order to correctly perceive and interpret your body's signals. Self-reflection is important in order to see this self-perception from a kind of meta-perspective. Ask yourself questions like: What can I change in situations that didn't go well? What contributed to something going well? How can I reflect on my skills in crisis situations? A kind of diary with appreciative feedback can help here, for example. A third practice for learning resilience is self-efficacy. This refers to the awareness that your actions have consequences in both directions. In terms of resilience, this means that you are able to actively work on improving a situation yourself.

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