Resilient Leader

In HC Magazine 25 September, Cris Popp, program director, Mt Eliza Executive Education, part of Melbourne Business School said, "Resilient leaders are able to look for the silver lining in any situation, which enables them to view the current economic crisis not as an impediment to growth but rather as an opportunity for their organisations." That is critical in moving through challenging times, but let us ask ourselves why does it take a crisis to sometimes look for opportunities or for us to really seeing the value of things when they are in front of us all the time anyway. Here’s what I mean:

When the bush fire inferno in early February wiped the financial crisis off the front pages, it changed our conversations and attitudes from the value of money to the value of human lives. It immersed us in stories far deeper and more compelling because it was close to home and we reached voluntarily and effortlessly into a mental place temporarily forgotten while consumed by the continuing shock of the next business disaster.

It demonstrated that we had not forgotten what was important, not forgotten about people, and that we did have time and the capacity to give and receive. I guess the hard part comes now as business is recovering and people are getting back to business as usual– how do we access that place again that enables us to bringing the right energy into the workplace and be responsible for creating the workplace that will reward us personally as well as professionally.

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