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Resilience. Developing the Characteristics of Resilience Dr. John E. Deasy, Superintendent. Definition. Resilience is defined as the ability to absorb high levels of disruptive change while displaying minimal dysfunctional behavior. The individual and the Organization.
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Resilience Developing the Characteristics of Resilience Dr. John E. Deasy, Superintendent
Definition • Resilience is defined as the ability to absorb high levels of disruptive change while displaying minimal dysfunctional behavior.
The individual and the Organization • Unless individuals are able to change their behavior and thoughts quickly, effectively, and with minimal levels of problems, the organization will find itself failing to achieve the hoped-for-benefits of an initiative.
The Cycle of Resilience • Think of a sine wave chart with high amplitude • Upper end of chart is dysfunction, lower end is dysfunction, and balance of the middle is function • Enter a disruption, the the wave length magnifies to high upper end and lower end with great frequency • End the disruption (the recovery) and the wave length returns to the functional middle.
Although resilient people face no less of a challenge than others when they engage in change, they are not immune to the dysfunctional behavior that accompanies the disruption of change
resilient People • More often than not they: • Regain their equilibrium faster • Maintain a higher level of productivity • Are physically and emotionally healthier • Achieve more of their objectives than people who experience future shock • Tend to rebound from the demands of change even stronger than before
Baseline Resilience • Everyone has a baseline level of resilience that is a result of their innate characteristics as well as their conscious and unconscious learning about how to best respond to change.
Baseline Resilience • Baseline resilience reflects the amount of change a person can adequately adapt to before any special effort is made to bolster this capacity during a particular change • The degree to which baseline levels can be raised is dependent to a great extent on • The beginning level of resilience • The teaching abilities of people serving as resilience coaches • The willingness of the individual to learn and apply resilience concepts
resilience Characteristics • Positive • Display a security and self-awareness that is based on their view of life as complex but filled with opportunity • Focused • Have a clear vision of what they want to achieve • Flexible • Demonstrate a special pliability when responding to uncertainty
Resilience Characteristics • Organized • Develop structured approaches to managing ambiguity • Proactive • Engage change rather than defend against it
The characteristics • Work as a system • No one of them alone is sufficient to produce resilience • They all play a role in either increasing the adaptation resources available to address a situation or • Protecting adaptation resources from being drained away in ways that are not productive
Self-Assessment of Resilience • Please take the self assessment, without talking to friends or colleagues • Time for that later • 10 minutes
Aspects of the characteristics • Lets walk through the handout • Now, please read the handout on increasing resilience • Table or elbow-partner talk • What does this say about me, my team/school? • What are the implications for my leadership? • What might be next steps for my growth and leadership?