The Power of Resilience: A Presentation for Leaders and Managers

This presentation, titled "HOW RESILIENCE WORKS," explores the concept of resilience in the context of leadership and management. It begins by highlighting the importance of resilience in the business world, emphasizing its role in thriving amidst chaos. The presentation then outlines three key building blocks of resilience: facing reality, searching for meaning, and ritualized ingenuity. The presentation emphasizes the importance of a clear understanding of reality, the ability to create meaning, and the capacity for improvisation. It delves into each building block, providing practical examples and insights, such as Morgan Stanley's approach during the 9/11 attacks. The presentation also discusses the role of values in organizational resilience and the importance of improvisation as a core skill. The presentation concludes by reiterating the unique perspective required for resilience, highlighting the need for all three building blocks to be present. The presentation was created by a group of students.

June
2022
HOW RESILIENCE
WORKS
Self – Management

INTRODUCTION
2HOW RESILIENCE WORKS
Resiliency is the capacity to adaptively overcome stress and adversity wh
maintaining normal psychological and physical functioning.

The Buzz About
Resilience
• In the business arena, resilience
is not only surviving the chaos
but thriving in it and growing from
it.
• Resilience has found its way onto
the list of qualities sought in
employees.
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Idea in Brief
"More than education, more than experience,
more than training, a person's level of
resilience will determine who succeeds and
who fails."
• Three Building Blocks of Resilience:
• A critical sense of reality.
• Ability to form an attachment to
others which gives meaning to life.
• Ability to improvise.
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Idea in Practice
Face Down Reality
• By examining the reality of your situation with a clear mind, you will be a
deduce ways to cope up with the difficulty.
Search for Meaning
• Instead of considering yourself as a
victim and constantly thinking about the
question “Why me?”, search deeper for
meaningful reasons behind your
suffering
Continually Improvise
• Being creative and thinking out of
the box will aid you much in devising
solutions for your problems.
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6HOW RESILIENCE WORKS
Facing Down Reality, Search for Meaning, Ritualized Ingenuity
THE THREE BUILDING BLOCKS

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• Resilient people view reality in its most raw form so as to bett
cope with it no matter how painful it is.
• The belief that resilient people are highly optimistic is incorre
• Morgan Stanely’s approach during the 9/11 attack: an examp
organizational resilience.
• Resilient organizations prepare themselves for the worst befo
the catastrophe actually strikes because they really view real
its truest, almost pessimistic form.
Facing Down Reality

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• Resilient people under pressure, plan and build through their suffering t
create meaning for themselves and others, unlike others who consider
themselves victims when faced with hardship.
• Most successful organizations and people possess strong value systems
which infuse an environment with meaning because they offer ways to
interpret and shape events.
• Resilience is neither ethically good nor bad; it is only the ability to stay
during trials and tribulations.
• Values, positive or negative, are actually more important for organizatio
resilience than having resilient people on the payroll.
The Search for Meaning

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• It teaches us how we can benefit from whatever is in our hand
Psychologists call this skill bricolage.
• Companies that manage to survive in tough situations see
improvisation as a core skill.
• Being creative is sometimes hard in life-threatening situations
where pressure is intense. However, if there are existing rules
regulations to follow, companies will turn out to be more resilie
difficult times.
Ritualized Ingenuity

CONCLUSION
10HOW RESILIENCE WORKS
Resiliency is a way of facing and understanding the world from a very unique persp
which not everyone can undertake, because it requires all three building blocks
resiliency.

THANK YOU!
Group Members
Ayesha Asif (01-112192-015)
Areeba Siddiqui (01-112192-010)
Faizan Ghafoor (01-112192-020)
Rajah Monzoor Ali (01-11201-081)