The Leader’s Guide to Resilience is your essential toolkit to build authentic strength within your business, so you can thrive in a changing and challenging world. Resilience is the core of growth and regrowth. It is what contributes most to the advancement of your organisation and your role as leader. Your personal resilience, and that of your teams, organisation and broader community network, must be actively nurtured to give you the tools to face anything that comes your way. This book will give you clear, effective and adaptable methods to initiate your first steps in building resilience, as well as advanced practical ways to refine, develop and future-proof your progress once on the path. Whatever life throws at you, resilience will help you bounce back. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

How do leaders deal with the lemons of difficult circumstances and make lemonade? Lemonade is a user-friendly guide to the key qualities that can help leaders and their teams to bounce back from change and challenge. Included are a self-assessment of your own resilience at work, stories of leaders just like you who have triumphed in difficult times, and practical exercises and activities that you can put to work for you. REVIEWS: One is never so weak as when those they follow have lost a vision of hope and lead only despair with despair. Lemonade is a great, practical guide to help leaders and managers build their constituencies, sustain resilience and to always lead toward vs. against. It is full of compelling stories and simple tools to help us all make the best of the challenges we face at work and in our lives. Curt W. Coffman Co-Author of First, Break All the Rules and Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch What leaders need are tools that are clear, simple, and actionable. This book is full of practical exercises that really work. Marc Effron, author, One Page Talent Management In order to succeed, today 's business leaders must prevail in the face of an unprecedented pace of change. Lemonade offers a straightforward, practical guide to help leaders to meet any challenge and come out on top I highly recommend this book. Mark A. Horney, PhD, Director EMBA Career Management, Columbia Business School AUTHORS: Alan Graham, Ph.D. is the Director of ACP Consultants. As an executive coach, Alan works with leaders at all levels to develop their unique strengths and personal resilience. He specializes in ADD/ADHD in kids and adults, and helps high performance ADD executives to focus and excel. Dr. Graham works with the American Psychological Association to deliver the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards and enjoys helping organizations to become happier, healthier places to work. Kevin Cuthbert is the President and Chief Collaboration Officer of Karlin Sloan & Company. In his twenty-plus years in business, he has served on international boards, and has created and led worldwide Human Resources functions. He has served as a consultant and coach to large global organizations, and contributed to the bestselling business book, First Break All the Rules. He works with organizations to energize and involve their work forces, to build the leadership pipeline, and to empower leaders to excel. Karlin Sloan is the CEO and founder of Karlin Sloan & Company, a leadership development consultancy devoted to helping leaders to be the change they wish to see in the world. She has helped organizations worldwide to develop clearer, more effective communication, enhanced teamwork, and powerful leadership in times of growth and change. She is the author of the acclaimed business book Smarter, Faster, Better, which has been translated into Thai and Russian, and Unfear: Facing Change in an Era of Uncertainty.

This book draws upon resilience research and best practices to answer the question: 'How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?' and aims to help leaders thrive in the face of adversity.

The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. For leaders wanting to use proven mindfulness strategies and tools to unlock top performance and results. The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness is a highly practical guide to help you focus your attention on the present so you and your organisation can perform more effectively. With emphasis on the “why” and the “how” of mindfulness, you’ll discover how to reap the performance benefits and also learn how to use mindfulness to become an emotionally agile leader. Through a combination of ground rules, practical exercises, case studies and no-nonsense advice, you’ll discover how mindfulness can help you and your organisation to: Improve wellbeing and resilience Improve relationships Improve collaboration Improve creativity and innovation Improve decision making and problem-solving

What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Exploring the qualities of adaptive leadership within churches and nonprofit organizations, Tod Bolsinger deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back, showing how leaders can become both stronger and more flexible.

A quick-start, evidence-based guide for finding wellbeing at home and at work. Resilience Recipes is for real people facing real-time challenges every day. Whether they are feeling overworked or overwhelmed, this book will teach them strategies to manage stress, find more balance in their life and bounce back. They need to make space for their own wellbeing to function as their best self. Starting with a wellbeing self-assessment test, readers remind themselves about what is important to them, before they are encouraged to dive into the resilience recipes that will improve their wellbeing. The chapters that follow focus on rebuilding emotional resilience, practicing mindfulness to increase mental adaptability and finish with strategies to re-energize and remain stronger going forward. The reality is that wellbeing isn't a nice-to-have &– it is a must-have. It is necessary for health, energy, connection, creativity, relationships, performance... the list goes on. Fleur Heazlewood is a leadership expert who has trained and mentored over 1000 people in positive leadership, mental health mastery and resilience.

In an increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) business world, it is more important than ever for organizations to build resilience into their everyday practice. Business Resilience is a practical guide to making organizations more resilient and improving current practices by building on what the organization does well. It explains how managers should constantly monitor their business environment and adapt their priorities depending on the level of disruption - from gradual innovation and improvement in good times to swarming on a single problem during a crisis. Based on the authors' new models for resilience and progress, this book includes frameworks and tools which can be tailored to any organization and used as stand-alone improvements or combined across teams and departments. These practices avoid unnecessary change but enable rapid and sustainable improvements in product development, service delivery and customer value. Learn how to survive and thrive in any environment with this actionable approach to making progress at pace and effectively embedding business resilience.