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Title: Overcoming Setbacks and Adversity


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Overcoming Setbacks and Adversity
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What do we mean by setbacks and adversity?
  • A setback is a single event or specific series of
    events that impedes your forward progress as an
    organization.
  • Adversity, rather than a distinct occurrence, is
    more likely to be an ongoing unfavorable
    condition.
  • Setbacks and adversity each make different
    demands on a leader.

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Why is it important to focus on overcoming
setbacks and adversity?
  • To keep the organization moving forward.
  • To avoid discouragement and despair.
  • To keep staff/volunteer morale high.
  • To maintain standing in the community.
  • To add to your and the organizations store of
    knowledge.
  • To enhance your development as a person and as a
    leader.
  • To maintain the organizations faith in its
    leadership.
  • To keep the focus on your mission, and continue
    to serve or work for those at whom the effort is
    aimed.

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When should you work to overcome setbacks and
adversity?
  • In the case of a setback, action should usually
    be immediate, and geared specifically to
    reversing the situation, whatever it is.
  • In adversity, you have to move forward steadily,
    both to get the organization through difficulties
    and in order to overcome them.

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How do you, as a leader, overcome setbacks and
adversity?
  • Stay calm.
  • Communicate.
  • Take action.
  • Emphasize moving the organization forward
  • Accentuate the positive.
  • As leader, share the hardships of the situation
    with the rest of the organization.
  • Use the situation to build solidarity within the
    organization.

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Continued
  • Dont be too serious.
  • Determine what went wrong, and use your analysis
    to fix the problem, if its within your control,
    or to get around or cope with it, if its not..
  • Develop a strategic plan for coping with the
    situation.
  • Involve everyone in the organization in planning
    your coping strategy.
  • Ask for help from outside the organization if you
    need it...and sometimes even if you dont.
  • Point out the learning that came out of the
    situation.
  • Keep the big picture always before you.
  • Dont let up.
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