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Help others savor good news
• Research by Shelly Gable shows that how you respond to a person's good news
actually does more for building a relationship than how you respond to bad news.
This applies across the board from personal relationships to business interactions.
• Responding in an active and constructive way; that is, helping the bearer of
good news savor it, is the only response that builds good relationships.
• Killing the conversation by offering a terse response or hijacking the
conversation by making it about you are quick ways to weaken a relationship.
FIGURE 5.7 Simple resilience strategies for busy, complicated lives. Source: Davis P. 7 Simple
Resilience Strategies for Busy, Complicated Lives www.inpowerwomen.com/7-simple-resilience-
strategies-for-busy-complicated-lives/ (accessed July 6, 2012)
impact, and overall benefit we will reap if we make taking care of ourselves a
regular aspect of our lives.
Ideally, to be the best leader you can be requires you to be “at your best”
when you lead. Understanding what being at your best means for you is a per-
sonal exercise and as a minimum would include knowing what it means for you
to be healthy physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. The need to
take care of yourself so that you can be highly effective is characterized in the
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by author Steven Covey [14] as the
principle of balanced self-renewal. This principle includes four dimensions of
renewal: physical, mental, social/emotional, and spiritual. Covey further points
out how this habit of balanced self-renewal surrounds all the other habits and is
the one that makes all the others habits that lead to being highly effective pos-
sible. Complete Table 5.7 to describe how you currently, or plan to, promote
your well-being and personal renewal.
In the interest of providing a summary resource, the detailed list of tips
for busy executives has been identified by Motivational Speaker and Personal
Power Expert DeLores Pressley ( Figure 5.8 ) [15] .
Prepare Young Women to Lead
While this aspect of leadership is most closely identified with the Servant
Leadership Theory, it has clearly been documented that developing the next
generation of leaders is a competitive strategy from an organizational per-
spective. While we are currently developing ourselves and setting our sights
on our leadership objectives, it is our responsibility to prepare young women
by first of all setting a positive example of leadership, and then mentoring,
coaching, opportunity creation, and advocating. To see the gains necessary in
leadership every woman leading or aspiring to leadership should commit to
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