Resilience Coaching for

LeadersSally Sheen, FCIPD, MSc Leadership, Dip Coaching,

MISMA, MPSA

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Sally Sheen, FCIPD, MSc Leadership, Dip Coaching

• Executive Coach specialising in leadership and personal resilience.

• Trustee of the International Stress Management Association.

• HR and Organisational Development Consultant and speaker specialising leadership, culture change and workforce resilience.

• Leadership experience in CE, Director and non-executive director roles in public, private and third sector

• Developed the “Inside-out Resilience Model” for future proofing organisations and addressing individual Stress and Burnout

Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Member of the Stress Management Association; Member of Association for Coaching; Member of the Professional Speakers Association.

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Aims

What resilience is

The resilience challenge for leaders

Research: Personal resilience within leadership roles

Resilience coaching for leaders

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Why Leadership Resilience?

“Resilience may be the new criterion for professional advancement. In the current world of economic uncertainty and intense competitiveness, organisations that instill resilience in their up-and-coming leaders will have a clear advantage.”

Accenture

Navigating life’s rapids

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Adversity

Adapt with Loss

DysfunctionalAdaptation

Grow

Navigating

Life’s Rapids

Resilience Process

Bounce Back

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Leader’s Adaptive Challenge

EXTERNAL OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND

CHANGE

OWN TRANSFORMATIONAL COPING

ENABLING OTHERS TO

ADAPT

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Research Findings:

Triggers Sense making

Operational

vs

Organisational

Role

vs

Rank

Capacity

Situational appraisal

Values

Resilient thinking

Personal strategies

Transformational coping

Organisational

culture

External protective factors

Adapted strategies

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Sense making

Sense making

Operational

vs

Organisational

Role

vs

Rank

Capacity

Situational appraisal

Values

Resilient thinking

Personal strategies

Transformational coping

Organisational

culture

External protective factors

Adapted strategies

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Strategies

Sense making

Operational

vs

Organisational

Role

vs

Rank

Capacity

Situational appraisal

Values

Resilient thinking

Personal strategies

Transformational coping

Organisational

culture

External protective factors

Adapted strategies

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Adapting personal resilience strategies:

Examples

Work overload

Peer behaviour and performance issues

Ongoing hostility from colleagues and manager when trying to implement a corporate change project

Line manager insensitivity following operational trauma

Operating within a failing, chaotic and under resourced unit

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#1 It’s lonely at the top

Support Anchors and Skillful Authenticity

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#2 What got you here won’t

necessarily get you there

Adapting or replacing personal resilience strategies

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#3 Staying strategic and

staying in touch

Make it purposeful

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#4 Expanded scope vs limited

capacity

Put the work where it belongs

Boundaries and self care

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#5 Authenticity

vs Vulnerability

Being Authentic with Skill

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Strategies

Meaning making

Growth mindset

Hardiness

Support

Healthy routines

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Resilience Coaching

Self Care Exercise self care inc. rest, exercise and nutrition

Support Identify and leverage support as a protective factor

Attitude Recognise, deploy and develop resilient attitudes

Meaning Address discrepancies between beliefs, values and situational meaning

Adapt Navigate the process of adaptation

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Even if it’s personal, it’s not You just happen to be holding the ball

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