Resilience for High Performance

Posted on May 03, 2019 by William Smith, One of Thousands of Performance Coaches on Noomii.

As this recent Easter break approached, I realised that everyone in my immediate circle (friends, clients, myself) was facing an excess of challenges.

The daily reality for many of us involve juggling an ever-increasing amount of multifaceted, high priorities at work while managing the demands of family life. Stressors add up while the sense of accomplishment can easily ebb, along with the energy for the usual challenges and responsibilities of life. Layer onto this any “out-of-left-field” challenges that shakes our sense of balance.

If we are already running on empty, big life stressors like a family crisis, new job or stretched targets in the office can completely deplete our capacity for even the smallest of challenges, let alone leading a team and running a family. Layer onto this our own thoughts, habits and beliefs being the perfect parent, leading the best team, being the renowned executive, delivering the perfect presentation, and measuring up to the ‘Joneses’ who seem to have it all … Let’s face it, in many ways we are not our own best allies. And when we’re giving our time and energy to everyone else, we tend to forgo our own needs for sleep, nourishment and regeneration. We become unkind to ourselves.

How does one handle the challenges of a leadership role with self-confidence and continue to engage a team in their vision?

The answer depends on the depth of our resilience leading up to the crises – and the current commitment we are making to energy renewal.

Resilience, the First Priority!

Making radical resilience a first priority commands a shift in how we perceive energy.

I unreservedly believe that only focusing on our management of time and stressors is ill-advised, that to be more fulfilled and better able to sustain optimal performance, we need to focus on how we manage our energy. People that thrive manage their energy in ways that keep their reserves of resilience replenished.

When we consumption of energy exceeds our energy replenishment, we risk chronically exhaustion, leading to impatience and reactivity at work, and a lack of energy for the second shift of home and family life.

When over-exhausted to relish our downtime (when we have it), we may lead to choosing non-regenerative activities (like comfort eating) and being too worried about our responsibilities to achieve a sense of renewed energy.

Build your Resilience

Constant review of the demands to our time and performance is a good habit. Finding the balance in these demands lays the path to improved resilience. The crux lies in picking up on the interference and conflicts that presents. Knowing this empowers you to set a plan of intentional resilience management, with clearly prioritised actions and resourceful approaches.

How are YOU Measuring Up?

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