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Resilience-Building Leadership Competency Domains


RBLP Leadership Competency Domain: Create a Positive Climate.

Create a Positive Climate

Creating a positive climate for people to work in is essential for building and leading resilient teams. This involves shaping the shared perceptions and attitudes of team members. Creating a positive climate will lead to greater flexibility, creativity, and openness to new ideas. When managers ensure that positive emotions are cultivated, it helps team members better cope with stress. Creating a positive climate raises morale.

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RBLP Leadership Competency Domain: Develop Cohesion

Develop Cohesion

Developing team cohesion is essential for building and leading resilient teams. By fostering strong, supportive, and dependable relationships within the team, managers enhance overall well-being, reduce stress, and promote creativity and collective decision-making. Cohesive teams are more capable of overcoming adversity in the workplace. Developing cohesion boosts teamwork.

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RBLP Leadership Competency Domain: Provide Purpose

Provide Purpose

Providing purpose for team members is essential for building and leading resilient teams. This involves challenging each member of the team to reach their full potential. Managers should encourage team members to learn new individual and collective skills. Managers should also help their teams understand how their work contributes to the organization’s mission. A clear sense of purpose empowers team members to collectively overcome challenges. Providing purpose improves motivation and commitment.

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Resilience-Building Leadership Professional® Coach (RBLP-C) Leadership Competency Domain: Facilitate Team Learning

Facilitate Team Learning

When people work together as a team, they create shared experiences that they can learn from. Managers can coach teams through the experiential learning cycle by ensuring that they reflect on their experiences to assess performance and find ways to improve, innovate, and change. As teams develop new ideas, managers approve and prioritize those ideas. Most importantly, managers ensure that new ideas get put into action and get tested.

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Resilience-Building Leadership Professional® Trainer (RBLP-T) Leadership Competency Domain: Support Organizational Learning

Support Organizational Learning

To survive and compete over time, organizations must be able to learn and change. Meaningful change in any organization is the result of learning. Managers who support organizational learning help create a culture where challenges are seen as opportunities for growth. This enables the organization to navigate uncertainties and stay competitive. Organizations that are capable of learning and change are resilient. Resilient organizations thrive in challenging environments because they can overcome adversity, adapt, and grow.

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