Resiliency training...It's in the being. Here are my thoughts:
Hi, it's Denise Roberts. And I'm here to announce the creation of the Playing to Win Together Process also known as "don't let doubt take you out." You see, I have spent my entire career helping people drive results and produce results, and we've done fabulous things with lots of companies and individuals; breakthroughs.
However, it didn't sustain. And that always drove me nuts. And I couldn't understand until I realized that what I was doing was teaching people what to say, what to do, and maybe how to do it. But I was never teaching them about who they needed to be in the midst of adversity or challenges.
That's what Playing to Win Together is all about; because we all as we start to proceed in our lives or our careers or our paths will hit challenges. And what will happen to most of us - and if you've read the other blogs we've talked about the Emotional Cycle of Change - there are predictable levels we will go through.
We will go from optimism to pessimism to despair, and most of us will give up there and give up on our dreams or veer and try a different tactic versus staying the course, keeping one foot in front of the other. That's what this is about.
That's why we are launching Resiliency Training all about emotional and mental stamina. That will be coming in January and I want to give you a quick sense of what this would be like. If you know what a rebar is, it is a reinforcing rod that keeps concrete so that it has some bend and flex but it is still meant to help keep it stronger. Well, imagine that you have a piece of rebar at this soft part of your throat and I have a piece and we are told that if we come together it will bend - it won't break it'll bend. So it's meant to challenge us.
Well, being human we're both going to run together and it's going to hurt. And when it hurts we're going to veer; and when we veer the bar drops. So we try it a second time and this time we have a coach telling us we can do it; giving us cheerleading things. The second time we go it hurts and we veer maybe the other way but nonetheless the bar drops.
The third time we do it what happens is as we start to come together there are people behind my back and your back holding our shoulders together. So as we start to want to veer it gently keeps us moving in the right direction. That's what Playing to Win Together is all about.
It's beyond coaching, it's beyond all those components, but with the support of an applied learning community. So stay tuned for more to come.
Interested in Resiliency Training? Contact me.