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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.
Join Martina In this solo episode as she discusses the importance of grit and resilience. Martina shares her personal journey, highlighting her background as a black British female from a single-parent household and the adversities she faced, including racism. Witter emphasizes the need for leaders to understand their team's personal lives to foster psychological safety and resilience.
Martina outlines four ways to build grit: developing an interest, practicing daily improvement, focusing on purpose, and enhancing problem-solving skills. Witter also introduces her "Fortify Her" program for female leaders over 40, designed to enhance resilience and career progression.
Transcript
4:24 Understanding Grit and Resilience
6:18 Challenges faced by Leaders
15:44 Developing Grit and Resilience
31:36 Building Resilient Leadership
34:54 Summary of grit and growth
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Join Martina on a solo episode on Time to Talk Day as she encourages open discussions to break the silence and build connections. Martina stresses that mental health issues affect one in four adults, and creating a psychologically safe environment in workplaces can reduce stress and improve productivity. Providing spaces for employees to share their experiences can lead to increased engagement and better well-being. Martina addresses the stigma around mental health, particularly for males, and advocates for challenging this stigma through open dialogue. Martina concludes by encouraging listeners to embrace mental health conversations and seek support for facilitating these discussions which builds personal resilience.
Connect with Martina Witter:
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📲 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mrobertaw
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Join Martina Witter as she discusses goal setting for success, emphasizing the importance of both setting and executing goals. She shares a proven framework that includes setting realistic, deadline-driven goals, writing them down, and ensuring they are actionable.
Martina highlights the significance of clarity, challenge, commitment, comment, and complexity in achieving goals and stresses the need for accountability and rewards to reinforce positive behaviour. Martina also underscores the importance of self-care and resilience and encourages listeners to take time for themselves. Martina concludes by affirming that success is attainable with the right mindset and actions
Connect with Martina Witter:
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_service
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services/
📽 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIx331RsTbzTbfmHLgxxvgQ
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📲 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mrobertaw
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Renew, Reflect, Rise: Embracing Resilience & Reflection for a Transformative New Year
Join me, Martina Witter, as we explore the transformative power of reflection in bolstering emotional resilience. This solo journey into self-awareness isn't just about looking back—it's a strategy to propel us forward. I share insights on how reflecting on both the challenges and victories of the past year can teach us invaluable lessons and fortify our resilience for 2024 and beyond.
I'll encourage you to pinpoint personal milestones and hurdles you've encountered and reflect on how these experiences can shape a more resilient future. By fostering introspection, we uncover the coping mechanisms that work best for us and learn to adapt, allowing us to reframe our mindset and flourish in the face of adversity.
Listen in as I recount some of my own triumphs, including the success of our Rivers to Resilience course and the growth of our incredible team. These personal anecdotes illustrate how reflection can lead to concrete achievements and overall well-being. I challenge you to embrace a reflective practice, both in your personal and professional spheres, to amplify your resilience. As we wrap up, we're thrilled about the year ahead, where we'll introduce you to experts and individuals with compelling stories of perseverance. Keep in touch through our website and social media for continued insights on nurturing resilience.
Thank you for listening to this episode, and I'm excited to support you on your journey to success and peak performance and personal Resilience.
Highlights
(02:45 - 03:57) Reflecting on Challenges and Building Resilience
(13:18) - Enhancing Personal Resilience
Transcript
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02:54
03:58
06:43
07:29
09:31
10:49
12:05
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Connect with Martina Witter:
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In today's evolving and demanding work environment, finding the right balance and resilience is paramount for optimal performance. The modern workplace often presents challenges that require us as individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt and thrive in the face of constant pressure, change, and uncertainty.
Resilience, a combination of both character and learned skills, is a key asset to success. It enables us to bounce back from setbacks, stay focused in high-stress situations, and maintain our well-being. However, it's crucial to strike a balance between pushing your limits and those of your team to achieve peak performance while preventing burnout.
A healthy work-life balance, emotional awareness, and the development of mental toughness are essential tools for individuals and organizations to navigate the complexities of the contemporary professional landscape while preserving their long-term well-being.
Join the conversation with Dr. Lee William as he shares his journey of resilience and strategies for developing personal, team, and organizational resilience for enhanced performance. As the co-founder of the KAYA Wellbeing Index and a mental toughness coach, Dr. Lee is dedicated to improving organizational performance by measuring well-being facilitating the connection between employers and employees while ensuring profitability. With a remarkable 35 years of experience honing his commercial knowledge and skills across various operational functions, industry sectors, and organizations, he stands out as a professional who excels in helping organizations connect the dots with an Outside-In perspective. Having collaborated with exceptional individuals from various business and academic backgrounds, Dr. Lee offers valuable insights into the ever-evolving landscape of well-being, resilience, and business performance.
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Key Highlights from the Episode;
[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest, Dr. Lee William
[00:23] Dr. Lee's backstory and what he does in the wellbeing space
[04:03] How the world of work is evolving and changing
[08:03] Dr. Lee's definition and experience with resilience as a soft skill
[11:55] Factors that create and inhibit resilience
[13:47] Cultivating mental toughness and how Dr. Lee is doing it through sport
[17:22] Building resilience through skill without burning out
[22:05] Finding the right balance of role and pressure to perform effectively
[22:02] Negative resilience and how it shows up in our life and work
[29:18] Emotional awareness in cultivating resilience
[36:10] Competitive mindset: Psychological and physiological resilience Vs. mental resilience
[38:22] Developing your resilience and building resilience employees
[40:52] Personal Vs. organization resilience processes
[46:21] Risks to resilience energy and how they can affect performance
[49:06] Keeping your team ahead of the process for optimal performance
[50:35] Dr. Lee's message to his younger self
[52:33] Best ways to reach out and connect with Dr. Lee
Dr. Lee William
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thecustomerchampion/?originalSubdomain=uk
Connect with Martina Witter:
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_service
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services/
📽 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIx331RsTbzTbfmHLgxxvgQ
📲 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RaphatherapyservicesLimited
📲 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mrobertaw
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Resilience is an essential skill that everyone needs to succeed. It’s the art of effectively confronting and triumphing over challenges while safeguarding one's well-being. Rooted in guidance, inner strength, and self-awareness, resilience isn't always innate but often requires the hard-earned currency of effort to forge its foundation. Building your resilience muscle requires tenacity to handle challenges that life throws at you with diligence to refine your confidence and ability to navigate life's uncertainties. Resilience doesn't equal constant toughness but rather the acceptance of life's challenges and the development of adept skills to tackle them. In this episode, Carolyn Preston shares her inspiring journey of resilience as an adept HR and organisational development specialist. She also offers valuable tools for cultivating resilience, adaptability, and a positive mindset within professional and personal spheres and how to leverage them to ignite inspiration and provide unwavering guidance for our teams with a steady hand at the helm.
Carolyn Preston is a human resource consultant and practitioner with over 20 years of experience and a proven track record of strategic thinking and implementing people management initiatives. Carolyn has a wide variety of generalist HR experience and in-depth knowledge of employment legislation, having dealt with complex employee relations matters, significant recruitment campaigns, attendance and performance management and all aspects of HR policy and procedures, including redundancies and TUPE in a unionised environment. She is also a qualified leadership coach and has designed and delivered management development training that has positively impacted the success of the organisations she has worked with.
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Key Highlights from the Episode;
[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest; Carolyn Preston
[01:13] Carolyn’s background and what she does in the HR space
[03:18] What resilience means to Carolyn and how she helps people cultivate it
[06:01] Why resilience is an essential skill for everyone to succeed in life
[08:08] How developing resilience helps build a positive mindset and outlook
[10:05] How Carolyn built her resilience muscle in the workplace and personal life
[14:41] What keeps people employable and the skills you need to develop
[16:54] The roles organisations have in supporting the delivery of employability skills
[22:02] Why emotional awareness is instrumental in building personal resilience
[26:45] How to build a resilience culture as the leaders in your organisation
[28:31] How stress management goes hand in hand with emotional awareness
[31:52] Carolyn’s message to her younger self
[33:44] Best ways to reach out and connect with Carolyn
[34:38] Wrap up and end of the show
Daniel Goleman: Leadership tool kit
Emotional Intelligence and Why It Matters More Than IQ
Carolyn Preston
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-preston-3a105914/?originalSubdomain=uk
Email: [email protected]
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Connect with Martina Witter:
📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rapha_therapy_service
👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-motivator-witter-ba884947/ and https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services/
📽 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIx331RsTbzTbfmHLgxxvgQ
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📲 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mrobertaw
We'd love to know how you found the episode, so don't be shy and leave us some feedback!
The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.