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Are you a resilient leader? The type who can tackle problems, devise creative solutions and recover when things don't go as planned? If so, chances are your company has a better chance of surviving adversity than those helmed by people who let challenges overwhelm them.
Resilience isn't just a nice-to-have quality for small business leaders, says Roxi Hewertson. It's a key ingredient to success. Hewertson, known as "The Dear Abby of Leadership," is the leadership authority at AskRoxi and the CEO of Highland Consulting Group. She believes that resilience is crucial, particularly in today's business environment. "When you're in a leadership role, resilience makes a big difference," she says. "It makes people feel a lot safer."
The still-fragile economic recovery, the difficulties small businesses face securing funding, and the importance of finding and retaining the right employees, places enormous stress on leaders today. But it doesn't have to weigh you down. By developing a true resilient mindset, you can continue growing your business regardless of the obstacles around you.
Via Daniel Watson, Gladys Pintado
The 4 tips are sound advice.
How resilient are you? Being a small business owner is hard but rewarding work. With the right attitude and proper support structure, you can make a go at it.
Small business owners will always feel like they have a lot to prove as well a lot to lose. Especially, for the majority of the business owners that life has been devoted to keeping their business afloat. They have invested too much of their time money and effort into their business. According to the article it stress that a business owner MUST have resilience as a leader. They must be able to take on any obstacle that comes their way.
With the understanding that they still-fragile economic recovery, the difficulties small businesses face securing funding, and the importance of finding and retaining the right employees, places enormous stress on leaders today. Which is understandable however the business world does not wait on anyone? The competitors feast off of those that show weakness. By developing a true resilient mindset, small business owners can continue growing their business regardless of the obstacles around them.
In the article it gave a couple of tips on how to improve business owner’s resilience mindsets. It was four steps; don’t go it alone, accept people help, keep your eye on the goal, maintain a positive outlook.
Reach out to other trusted business owner or consultants for ideas and support. Small Business owners need to realize they are not in it alone. Once you have reached out the next step will accept the help that is being offered. It is not a sign of weakness. Business owners should keep their eye and mind on why they started this company to reinsurance themselves when time gets hard. Which can help them keep a positive outlook on any situation that comes up to sufface.
With that being said I think that smaller business should engaged more into the Chapter 9 topic business to business relations. Which chapter touches on a couple key points for this particular article the fact of building and maintaining a relationship with other local businesses. On page 194 in the chapter someone suggested and I quote , " one-one-one discussions, partner advisory councils, surveys, and collaboration. the idea is to understand their issues and help partners grow." Having an understanding that it is a competition however what a competition is if you have no one to compete with.
From a PR stand point I think that having that open minded mind set and such with only help you and your community thrive for better prosperity.