Is now the right time for a resilience coach?
The festive season is a great time to pause and reflect on the past 12 months, as well as look ahead at the coming year.
What challenges have you faced this year and what have you learned from these?
What seemed to be a struggle, and why?
How will you adapt to cope with similar challenges better in future?
What do you want to achieve next year, and what steps do you need to take to make it happen?
You may try to work through all this on your own, but a resilience coach can ask the right questions and delve into the details to draw out the answers that you might not arrive at by yourself.
A Coach will support you to learn and grow from your experiences. Photo Mikel Parera Unsplash
A resilience coach won’t tell you what to do. They will work with you until you identify solutions for yourself, and feel confident, stronger and better equipped to tackle life’s challenges. Resilience helps you to find the opportunities that are hiding among the chaos of everyday life. We live in a VUCA world - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. It’s an acronym coined by the US army, but it’s been adapted by the business world to describe what it feels like to be a leader in a complex corporate world that is constantly changing.
I like to think of resilience as like learning to ‘ride the rapids’. By this I mean knowing how to skill fully adapt in response to what life throws at us. Never has this been more necessary, with the pandemic, Brexit and a whole host of other challenges to negotiate.
Resilience is not about ploughing on no matter what life throws at you. This is a common misconception. This demonstrates mental toughness, but not resilience - and if it's not working but you still continue anyway, this quite possibly demonstrates madness! Resilience is about checking in on yourself regularly, knowing what questions to ask and what to consider to keep yourself on the right path, make better decisions, remain calm and composed in a crisis and lead your team with confidence and courage. Resilient people are more adaptable to change, can come up with creative solutions, challenge their own beliefs, be willing to try new things, and are not afraid to fail.
A resilient Leader feels focussed and in command of their challenges. Photo JP Valery Unsplash
Resilient people know that they need to spend time focusing on themselves and that, far from being selfish, this is a great way to ensure the whole team benefits and thrives in the face of adversity, using every challenge as an opportunity to learn, grow and thrive. Through working on each aspect of the Resilience Wheel, I support my clients develop a holistic approach to building resilience daily through new emotionally healthy habits. The result is a happier, calmer, more productive person who feels well and in command of their role, is able to see clearly what they want to achieve and find the right path to achieving it. Wouldn’t that be a great thing to aim for in the coming year?
If you’d like to know more about resilience coaching why not get in touch for a free, no obligation chat about your goals?