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TABLE 5.6 Response to Adversity
Dimension What it is
What it determines
Control
The extent to which someone perceives
they can influence whatever happens next
Resilience, health,
and tenacity
Ownership
The likelihood that someone will actually
do anything to improve the situation,
regardless of their formal responsibilities
Accountability,
responsibility, action,
and engagement
Reach
The extent to which someone perceives an
adversity will “reach into” and affect other
aspects of the situation or beyond
Burden, stress, energy,
and effort; it tends to
have cumulative effect
Endurance
The length of time the individual perceives
the situation / adversity will last, or endure
Hope, optimism, and
willingness to persevere
Source: Stoltz and Weihenmayer (2008)
preparing for adversity, developing healthy coping skills, and creating a plan
for bouncing back.
Be careful of your thoughts, For your thoughts become your words; Be careful of your
words, For your words become your deeds; Be careful of your deeds, For your deeds
become your habits; Be careful of your habits, For your habits become your character;
Be careful of your character, For your character becomes your destiny.
Author Anonymous
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University www.scu.edu/
ethics/publications/iie/v13n1/
Knowing the demands of everyday life, a summary of research has been
integrated into a list of resilience strategies by motivational coach Paula Davis.
The 7 Simple Resilience Strategies for Busy, Complicated Lives ( Figure 5.7 )
[12] , are written to quickly get to the point as they are designed for the busy
person. The foundation of these strategies is a combination of research in the
areas of human behavior, leadership, and good old-fashioned optimism.
Take Good Care of Yourself [13]
If the experts are correct that it is our reaction to external events that creates
stress, it supports a basic premise that we need to take care of ourselves to
effectively respond to the stress factors inherent in our jobs. Taking care of
yourself often falls to the bottom of the to-do list for busy executives, ambitious
young leaders, and middle managers. This can be even more of an issue if you
are balancing the demands of career and family life. However, it is absolutely
imperative that we gain a genuine understanding of the criticality, long-term
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