A short spoken-tip video by Adam Markel advocating that leaders should "model self care" to foster team resilience. Markel defines resilience as the ability to recover from setbacks, emphasizes that resilience can be learned, and argues that leaders lead more powerfully by demonstrating mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual self-care—especially during highly disruptive times.
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Hi, I'm Adam and I'm a resilience guy. I've spent my entire career focused on what it takes to be at your best, even in the most difficult conditions, including writing a best selling book on resilience called Pivot. Here's one powerful tip that you and your team can use today. Model self care. Model self care so that the people around you can be more resilient. To be a leader means to show by what you do what you'd like others to be able to do as well. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from setbacks or failures in order to create momentum. The studies are all clear that resilience is something that we can learn. Resilience is something that's less about endurance and more about how we recover, which is why self care is so important. Your ability to model what it looks like to take care of yourself mentally, emotionally, physically, even spiritually, is a powerful team guide to everyone else around you. It's a powerful way to lead your teams by what you do, and not merely by what you say. Today, more than ever, in the most disruptive time that we've ever known, resilience is more important than than ever. And the place where resilience begins is with us. I hope this helps.