by Linda Hoopes | May 7, 2021 | Personal Resilience
As a long-time student of resilience, I began my exploration in a time when researchers were exploring what made some people better able to deal with adversity than others. This early work tended to frame resilience as a unitary quality or trait that people possess....
by Linda Hoopes | Feb 5, 2021 | Human Energy, Personal Resilience, Prosilience
We use physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy to deal with the range of challenges we encounter—both those that come to us and those we choose to take on. Each of us only has one energy supply, and it has to stretch to cover our challenges at home, at work,...
by Linda Hoopes | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Personal Resilience, Prosilience
When I originally wrote this post a few years ago, one of the hot news topics was the safe landing of a Southwest Airlines flight that had an engine explode in mid-air, putting a hole in the side of the plane and creating a serious emergency that involved the death of...
by Linda Hoopes | May 10, 2020 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
Resilience is the ability to deal with high levels of disruption, difficulty, or challenge while maintaining or regaining a sense of well-being. Although there is a lot of emphasis on the topic these days, I believe that many people don’t feel resilient a lot of...
by Linda Hoopes | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Cornerstone, Front Page, Human Energy, Organizational Change
Experienced leaders know that people have a finite supply of energy and that in the face of too many energy demands people begin to lose productive capability and may display unproductive behaviors related to stress and overload. They also know that energy levels rise...
