Navigating Tough Times Successfully

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Embrace challenges with optimism and resilience to overcome tough times. Learn from setbacks, focus on solutions, and cultivate a high-performing team for success. Stay motivated and persistent in the face of adversity to achieve your goals.

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Note from Brandie Hinen of Powerhouse Learning: These PowerPoint presentations are meant to offer you information that can be helpful in creating a learning organization. They may be used for your own use and narration in service and sales meetings alike. If you are interested in a complimentary lunch & learn type training for your organization on this presentation or other topics included in the PowerPoint list, contact information is below: Brandie J. Hinen brandie@PowerhouseLearning.com (208) 316-7656

Overcoming Tough Adversity

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self- discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability. Terry Bradshaw NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, sports broadcaster

These are tough times but not impossible times Each era faces challenges in their own right Parents & grandparents that faced adversity in their working lifetimes The face of change and demands of our environment.

How do you measure up? What are the greatest challenges? When tough times hit, where do you go? 2 kinds of people What to do when you don t know what to do Feeling discouraged? You re not alone, and neither are the over comers!

HYPERLINK TO REACH THE A.Q. QUIZ http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/501-550/article517_body.html

You 1. At the end of the day, I am typically energized. 2. I thrive on challenges and am relatively unfazed by most difficulties. 3. Most people consider me optimistic, resilient, tenacious. 4. When adversity strikes, I keep a cool head. 5. I constantly strive to learn, grow, and improve.

Team 1. We have a high performing team 2. We avoid blaming, complaining and criticizing 3. We focus on solving problems, no matter how substantial they may be 4. People seek us out to take on the toughest challenges 5. We remain energized and focused when faced with a setback.

Organization 1. When something goes seriously wrong among my immediate group, people rarely point fingers. 2. People here accept and learn from failure, so they are comfortable taking risks and trying new things 3. When we re really under a lot of pressure, the leaders here let people retain the same level of control in decisions and daily action 4. When we face change, people quickly join in the creative process of how to make it as effective and positive as possible 5. People rarely waste time whining when they could be improving the situation.

3 kinds 80%

Quitters Refuse the challenge of the climb altogether. They ignore, mask, or desert their core human drive to ascend. But alas, life wears on anyway. These are those that suffer far greater pain than that which they attempted to avoid by not climbing.

Quitters Often bitter, depressed, emotionally checked out you hear anger and frustration. Do just enough to get by. Little ambition, minimal drive, low quality work or care about the product they ve created. Rarely creative unless it comes to avoiding big challenges. They are the dead weight of any organization. Can t won t we ve not done it this way before who cares this is stupid it will never work

Campers Like quitters, lead compromised lives, the difference is in the degree. They were climbers at one time, but then got lazy for various reasons. Campers may feel quite content with the apparent trade-off between sacrificing what could be in order to hang onto the illusion of keeping what is. Campers believe their ultimate goal is comfort.

Campers Campers are the uninspired participants in significant change. They may accept some variations of the status quo but nothing that will rock the foundation. what s the minimum needed to do the job things could be worse it s not worth the effort Susan isn t doing it this way THE GOOD NEWS - Change and the way you communicate it can force campers to begin the climb once more.

Climbers Dedicated to the pursuit of lifelong ascent. Energized about change and its lasting effects. Possibility thinkers never allowing any circumstance to get in the way.

Climbers Also need to refuel after a climb. Refueling and gaining perspective of the mountain helps rejuvenate the spirit vs. campers who are there to stay. Most likely to embrace, if not drive positive change. They are not afraid if it rocks the boat if it is for the better of the organization and the vision. lead, follow, or get out of my way why can t we? let s make it happen BY WHEN

C.O.R.E. What and how do I see my ability to have Control over my attitude? Even though the Origin on the adversity is someone or something else outside of me, how do I take Ownership for my thought processes, language and attitude? Do I allow adverse events to Reach or bleed unnecessarily into other projects? Lastly, Endurance seeing that the adversity will not last forever and to have perspective that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how long the tunnel may be.

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." Viktor Frankl

So what if I feel like a camper? All of us are campers in certain areas I was once a climber and can be again! iii. Ready to be ready? iv. Imagine feeling better again about the value you bring and about your ability to get results First we need to pick apart areas where climbers get tempted to set up camp. i. ii. v.

Then it dawned on me, I had the solution on my fridge, in fact, I had been walking past it daily for years, a picture, now yellowed, of a frog and stork with the words "don't EVER give up" below it. It was this picture that helped to keep me going in the years when things were really crappy and I felt like just giving up.

Thats Outside My Boat Major successes are not built on success. They are built on failure, on frustration, sometimes even calamity and how you deal with it, and how you turn it around from a negative to a positive. Sumner Redstone, former CEO Viacom THE MEASURE OF A PERSON IS NOT WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE S STANDING ON TOP OF THE WORLD BUT WHAT HE DOES WHEN HE S STANDING ON THE DECK AND HIS SHIP IS SINKING .

what to do when you dont know what to do The reality of the emotion(s) fear and self doubt Men and women experience the same emotions, they just show it differently. 4 steps to overcoming fear of the unknown On a scale of 1-10 how scared am I What is the worst-case scenario Now that I have knowledge, what CAN I do The victory of breakthrough using C4A