Developing Your Social Resilience
SUMMARY
Do you find that the people around you test your resilience? People can be amazing, yet sometimes they can be a little stressful, depending on how you interact with them.
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, leadership and sustainable performance coach, and today I want to continue our conversation on resilience by developing your social resilience.
Social resilience is your capacity not only to foster and engage in positive relationships, but also to sustain them, to endure, and to recover from life's stresses, including social isolation.
The three key parts: fostering positive relationships, engagement in positive relationships, and sustaining those relationships.
TRANSCRIPT
Do you find that the people around you test your resilience?
Hi, this is Grant Herbert, leadership and sustainable performance coach, and today I want to continue our conversation on resilience by developing your social resilience.
Social resilience is your capacity not only to foster and engage in positive relationships, but also to sustain them, to endure, and to recover from life's stresses, including social isolation.
I know that, for a long time in my life, I isolated myself from others. I thought it was the only way to handle things. But in reality, isolation only made things worse.
The first part is fostering positive relationships. Fostering means doing whatever is within your power to ensure that your relationships are healthy.
The second key is engagement — engaging in positive relationships. This requires work and effort; it means proactively seeking out relationships for the right purpose.
The third part is sustaining those relationships. Relationships will have conflict. They will have disagreements. But by continually working and practising your interpersonal skills, you'll sustain more positive relationships.
Social resilience involves taking the other three — physical, emotional, and mental resilience — and bringing other people into the picture. It's about practising all the skills we've discussed this month in your interactions with others.
Well, that's it from me for another week. Join me again next week as we continue our conversation on the 9 Crucial Shifts for leaders, focusing on how to build great relationships. I'll see you then.
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