LOI Toolkit: Fostering Personal Resilience

8/13/2019 LOI Toolkit: Fostering Personal Resilience

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Hello cubicle warrior, todayyou are on-top-of-my-day-jobberpassionately adding to your

daily challenges for the goodof the world!Your missionTo maintain your wellbeing,sanity and perspective whileworking to transform yourorganization.

Your challengesTo keep yourself thriving andturn the daily grind into acorporate playground for yourpassion, ideas and potential.

Your super powerThe ability to catalyze multipleintrapreneurial projects while still deliveringon your day job. You find ways to shed theredundant and unproductive in searchof ber efficiency.intrapreneurial challenge.


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Pushing against the status quo

on a daily basis takes energy.How many times have youheard the word no in its

various shapes and sizes?


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A good half of

the art of livingis resilience.


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Go with the fow Practice compassion

Nowadays every visionary CEO

is inspiring their organization to

be more innovative. But barriers

to innovative thinking are often

a lack of mental and social skills.Mandar Apte (League of Intrapreneurs Awardee)Shell


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Leave your ego at the door 6th tip?


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If you feel a wave of a negativeemotion coming on, get up,

breathe and hydrate. Its amazinghow something so simple canquickly shift your perspective.

Even moving into an officestairwell, or stepping outside

for a few minutes can help clearyour mind and help you to startthinking clearly again.

People say the life of anentrepreneur is a lonely road.

Well, the life of an intrapreneurliving under the radar can beeven lonelier. To stay energized,

you need to give yourself a paton the back for your differentaccomplishments. Too often,

we dont acknowledge ourselvesfor all the hard work we put into

something. So take a momentto feel proud. Write down youraccomplishments so you can

easily visualize them. And keepthese accolades around youwhen you need a boost.

Susan Collin Marks, Senior VicePresident, Search for CommonGround, offered this advice tosocial entrepreneurs and intra-

preneurs at the 2013 Skoll WorldForum. Her point: you have to pri-

oritize in order not to run yourselfin the ground. And she speaksfrom experience. After ending upin hospital due to a stress-relatedillness, Susan knew something

needed to change. Now, when an

opportunity emerges, she waits24 hours before committing andasks herself Is this for me to do?Your criteria will be unique to you,

but pausing to reflect on yourpriorities will help you both to

maintain resilience and increaseyour impact.

Small stepsCHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT,

TAKE A DEEP BREATH, HYDRATE

VISUALIZE YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ASK YOURSELF, IS THIS FOR ME TO DO?


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Monitor the words you say toyourself. Are they sending youoff into a sea of negativity?

Its amazing how easily wecan switch into a negative and

fixed mindset. Thankfully itstemporary. Get savvy at spotting

when it happens, then see i f youcan pick up on any patterns in

what triggers this way of thinking.Explore how you could responddifferently to these trigger

events. Also look at the wordsyou are saying to yourself. Try to

re-frame what you are saying in amore forward-looking, open way.

Mastering this is a powerful toolin your Resilience Regime.

Resilient leaders are

characterized by a staunchview of reality. They are verylogical in their interpretations

of setbackswhat is in their

control, out of their control,and options for taking action.If you are feeling overwhelmed

or frustrated, pause and make a

list of what is realistically withinyour control to change andwhat is outside your sphere of

influence. Literally, making two

columns and identifying what youcan control will help you regainperspective and re-focus your

The mind is a powerful tool andwe are increasingly learningabout how it works and interfaces

with the rest of our body. Severalintrapreneurs we spoke with

use mindfulness meditationas a way to manage stress and

keep perspective. Mandar Apte,an intrapreneur at Shell, forexample, practices a system

of 20/20/20 20 minutesof meditation, 20 minutes ofbreathing and 20 minutes of yogaa day.

Whether you are just starting ormore evolved in your mindfulnessjourney, reconnecting with the

power of your mind is essentialto building resilience. There

are many ways to do this meditation, yoga, a walk or run

out in nature, a surf session.At the end of the day, find theactivity that helps you to clear

your mind, get centered andallows you to practice love andkindness towards yourself. Andmost importantly, make it a habit!

Bigger steps

WORDS CREATE WORLDS

BE REALISTIC ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL

BEGIN YOUR MINDFULNESS JOURNEY


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Where can I learn more? Contributors


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Over the past five years we have sought

to make social intrapreneurship partof the formula for how we think aboutchanging the world. Our initial foraysinto the field began with John Elkington

in The Social Intrapreneur A FieldGuide for Corporate Changemakers.

Building on this initial study,we stepped out and rallied greater

institutional support to invest in thecreation of a network for corporatechangemakers. In the Fall of 2012,The League of Intrapreneurs was born

with support from Ashoka, Accenture,the Inter-American InvestmentCorporation, GlaxoSmithKline,

Standard Chartered, Virgin and anumber of other partners.

The Cubicle Warriors Toolkit grows

out of our experiences working in thetrenches with leading change-agentsat large institutions. The creation of thistoolkit would not have been possiblewithout input from leading experts

and practitioners, including membersof the League of Intrapreneuers.

We would especially like to thank:

Gib Bullochat Accenture andRosario Londono at the Inter-American Investment Corporationfor their support in helping us grow

this community and contributing tothe mounting canon of knowledge inservice of social intrapreneruship.

Maggie de Pree and Alexa Clay

The Human Agency

More about the Human Agencycan be found at:www.thehumanagency.net

This document was designedby Adam Loxley.

Illustrations have been done

by Tom Jennings.

Over the coming decades,an accelerating pace of change

will test the resilience of every

society, organization andindividual. The balance ofpromise and peril confrontingany particular organization

will depend on its capacityfor adaptation. Hence, the

most important question forany company is this: are wechanging as fast as the worldaround us?

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