Emotional Intelligence:

Coping With Difficulty - A Crucial Leadership Skill

If you are successful in business or in your career as a manager, there will be
times where you are facing tough situations and how you cope with these
can define you as a leader.

The types of adversity you face can

come in a number of forms and they
could involve problems with employees
or outside situations that impact your
business

If you stay strong in these instances, you can grow as an individual and
learn from the experience. Our focus in this article is to teach you how to
harness the benefits of an unfavourable situation, with your personal
business or in the workplace, so you will be well prepared later on.
 First off, you have to accept that the
issues that directly impact you or your
company are yours and you are
responsible for the solution

When you've got a habit of needing to place the blame for an unfavourable
situation on somebody, or something, then you won't be able to find a
workable solution.

We aren't telling you to conceal from other individuals how they are
responsible, of course. You, on the other hand, are the leader and it's up to
you to look for a way to work out the situation and get beyond it.
Maybe the worker who set the problem in motion just needs more
adequate training so he or she doesn't repeat the same mistake. Or
possibly, your procedures manual requires updated.

Your goal should be on identifying a solution to the situation, not just

focus on the issue and who may have "caused" it. This way you can be more
assured that the problem would not repeat itself.
You don't have any control over some bad
situations, of course. For example, you can't
control a recession or a radical change in
the market where you operate.

This can mean that you should make a

number of hard decisions that will help you
thrive in a new environment, so at times like
these you must display strength of character
and you should not fall into the trap of
avoiding what may be inevitable.
 You need to decide what you must do to adapt to
the changes, and taking action immediately when a
challenging situation occurs. This will give you a
head start on getting past the problem.

How flexible you are in understanding the new market conditions, and
how it affects your business, and the best tactic you can take to align
yourself with the changes, will determine how well your organization
will be able to handle the new challenge.
 See whatever you are facing head on as a challenge, an opportunity to
learn something worthwhile that will hold you in good stead in the
future. Do not spend valuable time letting what went wrong, or changed,
play repeatedly in your head.

If you let yourself get all anxious when an adverse condition occurs, you
will hinder your ability to think clearly through the situation sensibly and
efficiently determine what you and your business must do to get past it.
This means you must be able to handle high levels of stress which can have
an effect on your health and overall performance if you let it.
Oftentimes when a business person or an
athlete has been faced with a huge stressful
situation, they reacted in a way that they
achieved even higher levels of success than
in the past.

This, then, should be your goal as well. Furthermore, if you

are strong in these situations, it will help those that look to
you for leadership to also continue being calm.
It's a matter of truth that regardless of your business - or occupation -
you'll encounter challenges as you go along. If you develop the skills and
mind-set to rise above these bad situations that appear every so often,
you're going to almost surely guarantee your future success.
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