Resilience

Guiding your team through the implementation phase after the final decision can be particularly challenging. This is the time when the rubber meets the road, and the emotional stakes are high—not just for your team, but for you as well.

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. If you’re in Marketing & Comms, you’re undoubtedly no stranger to navigating choppy waters. But now, with restructuring and potential redundancies, your resilience is more important than ever, particularly your emotional resilience.

Emotions are understandably high right now. It got me thinking about the idea of ‘your emotional home’ and its role in helping you master challenge and change.

I can’t speak highly enough of the hard work and commitment that Morwenna Grills APR Chantelle TaylorAmal A. and Lydia SinclairLindsey BirnieAnika Forsman, APR do for our profession as PRINZ and IABC respectively. I am grateful to be able to give it back to our community as Turas and my thanks to you for trusting …

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Part of my decision to become a coach for Marketing and Communications leaders is about the pressing need for change in our industry norms. Stereotyping, hierarchy, bureaucracy, and bullying still persist and I have many clients affected by these norms, personally and professionally.

I’m sad to say facing restructure and redundancy has become an unfortunate reality for many Marketing & Comms leaders in the public sector. In my recent conversations with my friends and ex-colleagues, many of you are grappling with uncertainty and anxiety about what the future holds.

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do. I’m conscious many of us are facing incredibly challenging times right now, and your resilience is more important than ever. Especially your emotional resilience.

I know how it feels to be fully fit one day then your life change overnight. In 2016, I went in for a routine surgery which definitively changed my life.

Don’t fear the storm, for it is merely a test of our resilience.
I love this Scottish saying. It reflects the Scottish – nay universal – spirit of facing adversity head-on,

I know how it feels when others make you feel ‘smaller’ than you are, make you question your abilities and box you into a corner.

As a ‘career’ change agent, I’ve been stereotyped, bullied and marginalised many times on my own journey. At its most severe, it resulted in anxiety and medication.