Everything is Fixable I Carolyn Preston

Rivers to Resilience

Everything is fixable :Resilient Leadership: A Blueprint for Personal and Professional Growth :Carolyn Preston

Resilience is an essential skill that everyone needs to succeed. It’s the art of effectively confronting and triumphing over challenges while safeguarding one's well-being. Rooted in guidance, inner strength, and self-awareness, resilience isn't always innate but often requires the hard-earned currency of effort to forge its foundation. Building your resilience muscle requires tenacity to handle challenges that life throws at you with diligence to refine your confidence and ability to navigate life's uncertainties. Resilience doesn't equal constant toughness but rather the acceptance of life's challenges and the development of adept skills to tackle them. In this episode, Carolyn Preston shares her inspiring journey of resilience as an adept HR and organisational development specialist. She also offers valuable tools for cultivating resilience, adaptability, and a positive mindset within professional and personal spheres and how to leverage them to ignite inspiration and provide unwavering guidance for our teams with a steady hand at the helm.

Carolyn Preston is a human resource consultant and practitioner with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of strategic thinking and implementing people management initiatives. Carolyn has a wide variety of generalist HR experience and in-depth knowledge of employment legislation, having dealt with complex employee relations matters, significant recruitment campaigns, attendance and performance management and all aspects of HR policy and procedures, including redundancies and TUPE in a unionised environment. She is also a qualified leadership coach and has designed and delivered management development training that has positively impacted the success of the organisations she has worked with.

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Key Highlights from the Episode;

[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest; Carolyn Preston

[01:13] Carolyn’s background and what she does in the HR space

[03:18] What resilience means to Carolyn and how she helps people cultivate it

[06:01] Why resilience is an essential skill for everyone to succeed in life

[08:08] How developing resilience helps build a positive mindset and outlook

[10:05] How Carolyn built her resilience muscle in the workplace and personal life

[14:41] What keeps people employable and the skills you need to develop

[16:54] The roles organisations have in supporting the delivery of employability skills

[22:02] Why emotional awareness is instrumental in building personal resilience

[26:45] How to build a resilience culture as the leaders in your organisation

[28:31] How stress management goes hand in hand with emotional awareness

[31:52] Carolyn’s message to her younger self

[33:44] Best ways to reach out and connect with Carolyn

[34:38] Wrap up and end of the show

Notable Quotes

• Resilience is dealing with and overcoming a challenge without it impacting your well-being; it requires guidance, strength, and awareness, and it doesn’t always come naturally to people. [03:34]
• If you want something, you must put in some effort to get it; the hard way equals results, which builds resilience. So, keep going until you achieve something, even though there are challenges along the way. [05:10]
• The more challenges you deal with, the more confidence you gain, and the more naturally you build your resilience to deal with whatever comes next. [07:30]
• To be resilient, you don’t have to be tough or strong all the time; to be resilient is to accept that life throws challenges at you, accept that there will be difficulties, and just develop the skills to deal with them effectively. [11:34]
• As leaders and managers, if we adapt our skills, grow, learn and develop through our daily experiences; a little bit of theory can help us approach things in a more structured way. [22:49]
• If leaders in a business demonstrate that they are calm, intuitive, adaptable and resilient when challenges come, they will gain credibility, respect and people will follow through with the feeling they are in control. [26:52]

Resources Mentioned:

Daniel Goleman: Leadership tool kit

Emotional Intelligence and Why It Matters More Than IQ

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