I'm a moderately active person. I play netball once a week; I like to go for a run 2-3 times a week; and with Geoff, I walk the dogs every day. Playing a number of different sports throughout my life, I've had my share of injuries which is not surprising. But I never thought I'd get injured from sitting down for too long.
The importance of getting up from my desk and stretching regularly has been made very apparent to me. I have scaled back work quite considerably over the past 4 weeks so that I can focus on my University Capstone project. This has meant considerably more time sitting at my desk, which has resulted in an injury to my neck and shoulder with headaches where I could not think ... all because I was sitting for too long. Headaches have gone, neck and shoulder on the mend with still limited movement, which has also meant no running and netball.
There are some great short videos freely available for use in learning. Some of my favourites are listed below, along with a few ideas for using these.
Would love to hear of your favourites and also, how you might use these videos. Enjoy!
Billy Joel & Friends at the Gershwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4MYJIC1sU
- To highlight characteristics of high performing teams
- To celebrate diversity of strengths
- To encourage empowering another while potentially taking a risk
- To consider impact of contagion of emotion
- To discuss slowing down and the impact of noticing … the video goes for approximately 6.5 minutes!
insium's newsletter on leadership: September, 2016
Written by geoff Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:00
Organisational Courage
Courage is a pattern of constructive opposition, in which an individual stands against social forces in order to remedy duress in the organisation.
Monica Worline, 2012
The VIA strengths of courage are bravery, perseverance, honesty and zest; practising these strengths have resulted in the following organisational benefits:
- Improved accountability and responsibility
- More effective working relationships
- Increased self-efficacy and self-confidence
- Broadened perception of what is possible and improved resourcefulness
- Increased goal achievement
- Increased ability to learn from mistakes
- Increased positive energy, positive mood, empathy and conscientiousness
- Increased prosocial orientation
- Inspired others to act courageously
Adapted from the works of Haidt (2002); Herman (1971); Hitz & Driscol (1989), Huhnke (1984); McQuaid& Lawn (2014); Peterson & Seligman (2004); Ryan & Deci (2000); Shepela, Cook, Horlitz, Leal, Luciano & Lufty (1997)
How do you build courage in your organisation? A few ideas for your consideration that can be easily implemented include:
I recently tweeted about the following clip and thought I would write a very short piece about how you might like to consider using this clip in a strengths and/or wellbeing workshop.
This short clip (less than 5 minutes) from the animated movie, “Up!”, can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTDP-A--BhE
insium's newsletter on leadership: August, 2016
Written by geoff Wednesday, 10 August 2016 00:00
Courage:
The willingness to act towards a moral or worthwhile goal despite the presence of risk, uncertainty and fear
Robert Biswas-Diener, 2012
The VIA strengths of courage are bravery, perseverance, honesty and zest. The benefits of these strengths include:
- Healthy positive relationships
- Taking personal responsibility for one’s actions
- Increased tolerance for ambiguity
- Increased resilience, personal growth and achievement
- Increased trust
- Increased happiness and wellbeing
- Increased inclusiveness
- Fuller expression of abilities, skills and talents
- Increased resourcefulness
- Increased self-confidence
Adapted from Peterson & Seligman (2004)
While the following short clip depicts the courage of Buzz Lightyear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgmiqhgMCQ
courage is not purely the domain of the heroes in the world - ordinary people have courage too. (Lopez, Rasmussen, Skorupski, Koetting, Petersen, & Yang, 2010). And yet, being courageous … requires courage.