Linda Bidlack of Linda K. Bidlack Coachin & Consulting, presented at Expo 2012. Her interactive session taught the important leadership skills and identified levels of resilience in leaders.

1. The Resilient
Leader
Linda K. Bidlack, MA, ACC, CLPC
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2. The Resilient Leader
 Types of adversity
 Definition of resilience
 The leader’s role
 The problem in your brain
 Two solutions in your brain
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3. Types of
Adversity
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4. What is Resilience?
The ability to...
 Struggle well
 Be engaged with the world but not troubled by it
 Learn and draw meaning from adversity
We cannot control the wind but we can adjust our sails. Elizabeth Edwards
.
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5. The Resilient Leader’s Role
‘…The demanding task of mobilizing people to confront
their predicament and solve their most pressing problems.’
Dean Williams, Real Leadership
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Adaptive vs Technical Challenges
 Ambiguity
 Risk
 Challenging conversations
 Use of self as instrument
 Style required in one situation can be disastrous in another
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6. Resilient Behavior
1. Stay calm under pressure
2. Delay impulsive emotional reactions
3. Accurately identify the cause of adversity
4. Believe you can solve the problem at hand
5. Stay positive yet realistic in outlook
6. Read other’s non-verbal clues
7. Take on new challenges after recovering from a
setback
The Resilience Factor, Reivich & Shatte
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7. Staying calm under pressure
Presence
• Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)
• Fires up the edgy, vigilant, irritable self
• Intended to last just 5-60 minutes
• The Para-Sympathetic Nervous System (PNS)
• Puts out the fire
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8. The Resilient Leader
It’s not the hours you work
that determine the value
you create.
Tony Schwartz, The Energy Project
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