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 | May 24, 2019 | Blog, Cornerstone, Front Page, Personal Resilience, Prosilience
What is resilience? Based on a great deal of research and observation of people going through change and other challenges, we have identified a set of characteristics that help people use their adaptation energy more effectively. Think of these characteristics as...
by Linda Hoopes | May 6, 2019 | Front Page, Organizational Change, Personal Resilience, Prosilience
VUCA is an acronym coined by students at the U.S. Army War College to describe the state of the world after the Cold War: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. It has become a very popular leadership term as a shorthand way of describing an environment that is...
