How managers build real resilience beyond simple endurance
Discover how managers can build true resilience, not just endurance. Gain strategies to help your team thrive and avoid burnout in tough times.
How can managers build team resilience without causing burnout?
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How managers build resilience without risking burnout is a critical challenge for senior leaders. In this episode, learn practical strategies to help your team bounce back from setbacks, grow stronger through adversity, and avoid the common pitfall of endurance turning into exhaustion. Discover how to foster a resilient culture that supports both performance and wellbeing at the senior level.
What you will learn
- Understand the difference between resilience and mere endurance in leadership
- Apply proven tactics to build resilience in yourself and your team
- Identify and overcome common barriers to personal and team resilience
- Balance resilience with wellbeing to prevent burnout among senior leaders
This episode features Julian Roberts, Executive Leadership Coach and Chief Resilience Officer, who brings extensive experience from multinational and family run businesses.
Episode highlights
- (0:00) Intro
- (7:56) The learning loop
- (9:05) Building resilience at the senior level
- (12:48) Getting clear on purpose
- (20:09) The challenges to personal and team resilience
- (23:10) How to balance resilience and avoiding burnout
- (26:35) Why the lack of reflection as senior leaders
- (30:24) All about Julian’s podcast: Helping Organisations Thrive
- (31:29) What he wished he had done but never got to do it
- (33:30) Outro
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