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The Stress of Leadership – Resilience &
Emotional Intelligence Strategies for
Managers Under Pressure
People In Aid
26 March 2015
Kate Nowlan
CEO, CiC Employee Assistance
Immediate Past President, Employee Assistance
European Forum (EAEF)
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Outline for today
• Common stressors for managers
• Emotional Intelligence
• Why is EQ important?
• EI & Resilience Strategies
• Critical leadership competencies
• Going Forward
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• Deadlines, crisis management
• Conflicting demands
• Team dynamics
• Dealing with the Unexpected
• Managing performance
• Breaking bad news
• Job insecurity
• Long working hours
• Worklife balance
Exposure to Stress on the Increase –
Managers Under Pressure
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What is Emotional Intelligence?
• Self Awareness – understanding your emotions,
strengths and weaknesses
• Self – Regulation – managing your feelings and
emotions so they don’t ‘get in the way’
• Motivation – inspiring others by example
• Empathy – understanding others’ feelings
• Social Skill – capacity for collaborative, co-operative
approach
• Are these really SOFT skills???
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Why is EI important for Managers working
with stress?
Knowing oneself, being empathic, having the
capacity to be flexible, adaptable and
demonstrating an attitude that enables teams to
thrive lessens the manager’s own stress as
well as those of their teams.
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(1) Self Awareness – be authentic
• Know Thyself – Temple of Delphi
• The essence of knowledge is self knowledge –
Plato
This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day
Thou cans’t not then be false to any man
William Shakespeare (Polonius: Hamlet)
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Think before acting………
(2) Self Regulation – manage those feelings
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(3) Motivation …… keep optimistic
Have your previous managers
inspired you in your work,
and encouraged you to
achieve more than you
thought you could?
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(4) Social skill – Building teams
Expertise in building
teams, finding
common ground
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(5) Empathy
Understanding others
BUT this is one ‘soft’ skill that is a double edged sword.
Research shows that the very capacity for empathy which
draws people to ‘the helping professions’ makes them
vulnerable to compassion fatigue.
Those working with the traumatised on an ongoing basis will,
at some level, be traumatised themselves.
Charles Figley
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Critical leadership competencies
– mitigating stress
• Lead by example
• Treat staff with respect and fairness
• Keep promises
• Promote trust and ethical behaviour
• Your values as leader with a compelling vision will help
mitigate stress
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Avoiding burnout – managerial responsibility
Low
Pressure
Some
Pressure
Optimal
Pressure
A little too
much
Far too
much
pressure
PE
RF
OR
MA
NC
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Ongoing Exhaustion - Colleagues
© Thomson
Reuters
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Good managers know how to listen
Know when to refer on
Recognise warning signs
Managerial Support and listening
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Listening – the most powerful tool of all
“Most people do not
listen with the intent to
understand; they listen
with the intent to
reply.”
Stephen Covey
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Ongoing Exhaustion – Leadership Affected?
©
Thomson
Reuters
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Teamwork and Resilience – who is the leader?
Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson climb Yosemite’s El Capitan
January 2015
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The climb begins ….
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Rest, recovery, taking time out….
“the two climbers were putting as much attention and focus into
their recovery and regeneration as they were into their
climbing. Jorgeson was taking hours between attempts, in
some cases even resting for an entire day before trying again.”
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The Dawn Wall has been freed
President Obama wrote:
Congratulations to
Tommy Caldwell and
Kevin Jorgeson for
conquering Yosemite
National Park's El
Capitan! You remind
us that anything is
possible.“
Photo: The White House Facebook
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Managers teach staff to recognise signs in themselves
Withdrawal from team
Minor accidents – often clumsy
Sickness – unusual headaches
Anxiety/panic at simple tasks
Weight loss – can’t eat
Small events triggering an over-
reaction
Increased irritability/aggression with
colleagues
Increased drinking/smoking/drug use
Poor performance
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Now for Resilience……..
"how we react to bad things is very dependent on how connected we are to
our own strength and wisdom and peace and resilience. And that is really
what I am talking about. We all have these resources in us, but a lot of the
time we're not connected to them."
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Sleep
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We are what we eat….
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Wellbeing, Work life Balance and Resilience
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Take those breaks – modelling behaviour
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R&R – Rest is Crucial
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Active Strategies
Exercise
Nutrition
Relaxation
Reflection
Manage your energy,
not your time
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Educate managers – emotional intelligence
Implement comprehensive training programmes to
spot first symptoms of stress and anxiety
Teach managers to recognise behavioural change
– webinars, face to face training
Leadership culture of understanding
Employee assistance/psychological support
Ongoing ‘care’ protocols
Employer Awareness – Duty of Care
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Good leaders encourage great teamwork…
And so it goes, the climbers slowly
ascending the wall like a great 200-foot-
long inchworm, moving one at a time from
ledge to ledge, climbing pitch by pitch,
always connected to each other via the
sacred and literal link formed by the rope.
(National Geographic)
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Resilient leaders – excellent communication skills
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• Mandatory training programmes for managers to boost EI
• Communicate regularly with staff re support structures (24/7
helplines, employee assistance programme, counselling).
• Roll out stress awareness programmes across the organisation.
• Implement wellbeing and wellness strategies – with information
about diet, exercise, rest, mindfulness.
• Ensure staff take holidays, have adequate space for social
support.
Best Practice for leaders and managers in NGOs
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Meaning and Purpose
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Stress, resilience and growth
Enhanced relationships at work and home Stronger teams – and closer colleagues Renewed vision – and sense of meaning Shared energy – and sense of support
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Duty of Care Conference – June 2015
• EAEF Conference Madrid
• www.eaef.org