Resourcefulness
Key to be resilient is being resourceful
As a team you can be more resourceful but as a Leader you lead the way on thinking in a different way.
Evaluation
Taking time to evaluate situations, what are you really seeing? Understanding what resources and support are available. When we evaluate where we are it often feels that we are not doing anything but the time that will be saved further down the line by taking time to take stock.
Creative Thinking
To be resourceful we need to look at things differently. Hold an object in your hands and look at from all angles. We can do this with services, thinking about how we can adapt ideas and find fresh thinking. A good starting point is to list everything you know already and then decide what would happen if you did the exact opposite. Flexing your thinking gives you a new way of seeing things.
Notch up the Nos…
Resilience is often about picking yourself up and going again. Being resourceful is about seeing every no as a learning experience and the more you have the more you can learn.
Think Win Win
To think win win and understand the other persons perspective is a far healthy way of going into any negotiation. It is a meeting of minds and not a competition.
Bend the Rules
To keep going we may need to adapt a structure or flex it to fit with the work. If we are held back by the rules, it will be exhausting and deplete resilience and resourcefulness levels.
Proactive
Take time each week, to think proactively. If you are currently just doing a day-to-day to-do list, stretch it to looking at the whole week. Go even further and have the months mapped out, look at the year on one page. Take time each week with a piece of paper to creatively think about your current projects.
To book a workshop on being resilient and resourceful, please email bev@nuggetsoflearning.co.uk
