The Resiliency Advantage - Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Al Siebert is Director of The Resiliency Center and is the author of several books, including The Survivor Personality and The Adult Student’s Guide to Survival and Success. Klappentext The Resiliency Advantage is the first book based in the emerging new "science" of resiliency. It shows people in all occupations and circumstances how to become skilled at bouncing back quickly from setbacks, making difficult challenges turn out well, and converting misfortune into good fortune. Leseprobe Thriving in Today’s World Cynthia Dailey-Hewkin poured herself a hot cup of coffee, sat down at the little table in her kitchen, and opened the morning paper. Her eyes widened, her jaw dropped open when she saw the front-page headline announcing that the Trojan nuclear plant where she worked was going to shut down. She was shocked. Her first thought was, “Oh no! What am I going to do?” Cynthia says, “The plant closure came at a particularly difficult time in my life. I was going through a divorce after being married twenty-eight years, and my mother was dying of a brain tumor. Now I was losing my job.”1 How do you respond to extreme setbacks? People react to life’s rough blows in many different ways. Some emotionally explode. They become enraged and flail around. They have emotional tantrums in which they may want to hurt someone. A few become physically violent. Others do the opposite. They implode. They go numb. They feel so helpless and overwhelmed they can’t even try to cope with what has happened. Some people portray themselves as victims. They blame others for ruining their lives. They spiral downward, mired in unhappy thoughts and feelings. “This isn’t fair,” they complain over and over. “Look at what they’ve done to me now.” 2 Then, as shown above, there is another group, the people who get through their distress, orient quickly to the new reality, and cope with immediate challenges. They bounce back and often spiral upward, stronger and better than before. In the workplace, they convert what could be a major career loss into finding an even better new career. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most importantly, they  expect  to bounce back and feel confident they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck. In the past, individuals had to learn how to become resilient on their own. Now, for the first time, the new science of resiliency psychology can show you how to become quickly and easily resilient in a way that fits your world. Research into coping, optimism, hardiness, stress-resistance, post-traumatic growth, creativity, emotional intelligence, and the survivor personality has identified the main attributes of resiliency. In the chapters ahead, you will learn how to use knowledge gained from the latest psychology research to develop your unique way of being resilient. Avoiding the Victim Reaction Sadly, some people get stuck in the victim/blaming mode when their lives are disrupted. They reject all suggestions on how to cope with what happened. They won’t take steps to overcome their difficulties even after the crisis is over. Getting stuck in this frame of mind is like tying a rope around your feet and then trying to run a race—it’s a major handicap. Victim thinking keeps people feeling helpless, and by blaming others for their bad situations, they place responsibility on others for making their lives better. 3 “Reaction” is used here in the sense of a reflex that happens without any conscious thought or feeling of choices. “Response” indicates that your actions after a threat or setback are guided by conscious choices. Blaming others for ruining the life you had will block you from bouncing back. Blaming an organization’...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Al Siebert
• Edition: Berrett Koehler Publishers
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 22.05.2005
• EAN: 9781576753293
• ISBN: 978-1-57675-329-3
• Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 18 mm
• Thème: UK Professional Business Management / Business
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Gestion