Personal Narrative: My Personal Leadership Resilience

Overview Life is full of tough breaks, work emergencies, school deadlines, personal rejection, illness, raising children, and family tragedies. These trials can cause a defeatism mentality or give rise to resilience in how a person handles and copes with unwelcomed or unexpected events. American citizens have witnessed both extremes, of the ability to cope, through school shootings, the planes hitting the twin towers, workplace violence, soldiers lost in war, as well as numerous weather related disasters. The ability to manage change and stress with a strong and pliable demeanor is something I witness in the compelling actions of leadership that I admire.
Leadership Resilience Leadership resilience is easily recognized in so many situations
I learned from my score that I am “a moderately resilient person” (Allison-Napolitano and Pesult, 2015, p.14) and “fairly confident” (Allison-Napolitano and Pesult, 2015, p.14) in my abilities. I realized that I am very comfortable in handling crisis at work and in leading and directing staff through stressful situations. I am confident in instructing staff on patient care, documentation, regulations, encouragement, dealing with difficult patients, how to improve their organizational skills, how to achieve their professional goals, and looking at things from an employee perspective. I found that I am very confident in meeting with peers and those that I report to. An area where I see an opportunity to grow is in handling personal criticism and people that are indifferent towards me. I like everyone and can usually find some glimmer of positive appreciation for them. I truly care about those around me and struggle when people are clearly rude and hurtful toward me. I am ok with others not agreeing with me or choosing another colleagues design over mind, but people that misinterpret my intensions or form a dislike for me following a ruling that I make, stays with me and hurts. I appreciated the teaching and guidance from the lecture this week, regarding not taking things personally and learning from the