Resilience
Leda Team
13 Sep 2018
2 min
🎓 Monash Business School|🏆 AACSB Recognition 2018|📊 8,000+ leader reflections|✅ 88-93% completion rate
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About this research
8,000+ leader reflections collected over five years. Participants span technology, industrial services, healthcare, and non-profit — from ASX-listed companies to 65-person organisations.
Methodology co-developed with Professor Anne Lytle, who spent 30 years teaching leadership at Kellogg, Melbourne Business School, and Monash University (Professor and Director of Leadership). Her research background in neurobiology (Cornell) and organisational behaviour (Kellogg PhD) shaped the science-based approach.
Past-president of the International Association for Conflict Management. Consulted to ANZ, Boeing, Qantas, Telstra, and the United Nations.
Recognised by AACSB's Innovations That Inspire — the global standard-setting body that accredits Harvard, Wharton, INSEAD, and London Business School.
Why is it useful?
We can’t avoid stress, but we can strengthen our skills in resilience: our ability to resist, recover from, and adapt to challenges.
Resilience keeps you going through good and bad times over the course of your career. It helps you manage multiple demands, and keep calm under pressure. It helps you learn, grow and improve yourself.
So it’s not surprising that resilience predicts leadership success.
Resilience comes from two kinds of factors:
- The routines and behaviours that give you energy and facilitate recovery, making negative responses less likely
- Your ability to manage your own stress response in the moments when it arises also called Mindshifting.
To be a strong leader, we need to practice and model resilience.
Fortunately, resilient behaviours can be learned.
Leda can help you improve resilience-building habits around sleep, exercise, nutrition, relaxation and social support. We can show you how to foster positive emotions in yourself, and help you master the practice of Mindshifting which is so critical to emotional self-control when the going gets really tough.