RedFive asks: How can individuals and organizations grow through dealing with adversity?

Oct. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- By dealing with adversity effectively, both people and organizations become stronger and better. It makes them more resilient. It makes them more confident—because they know they can prevail even in tough times.
RedFive feels that the key is confronting the reality you face and dealing with it with courage and tenacity. Organizations and people have a hard time doing this: They tend to ignore the problem or to fall into a downward spiral of complaining and commiserating.
Redfive have learned that you really do make your own luck. It starts with a winning attitude, and it requires listening and learning so you can keep changing and adapting to prevail in a new situation. With those qualities you can emerge stronger.
Redfive shares what they feel are the leadership qualities that enable teams to overcome adversity?
Redfive explains that the most important quality is emotional intelligence. This means knowing yourself deeply and having the ability to empathize with others so you can earn their trust. As a leader, you put yourself in your people's shoes, understand what causes them anxiety or fear in a situation of adversity, and then help them find the inner strength and courage to master the situation.
Another very important quality is the ability to inspire faith and a sense of purpose. It is remarkable how teams can overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges when their leader inspires them to see a worthy cause in their fight and to see an exciting future that will be achieved.
A big challenge for The Managing Director of Redfive has been to adapt to and succeed in cultures that are new. Mastering those challenges, through an attitude of listening and learning. This mind set will help you to adapt to new environments and not to jump to judgment. Benefitting a lot from seeking out mentors who would help navigate the new cultures.
Redfive recommends putting situations into perspective. There are usually much worse situations than the one you are in. And even if it is a very severe situation, there is a way of addressing it if you don't get panicked and you think about other tough situations you have faced that can teach you about managing the new one. Keeping a cool head is very important.Seek out collaboration and teammates in overcoming the situation. The worst feeling is feeling alone in adversity. When you can share your feelings with others, work together on a solution, and have a shared vision of success, mastering adversity is much easier. Good fellowship can even make the effort fun. Redfive also advises breaking up the challenge into bite-sized pieces and deal with each piece one by one. In this way you cut what may seem like an impossible situation down to size, win many small victories, and step-by-step, win your war.
Finally for Redfive the most important, is having a winning attitude even as you play defence. Don't become a victim. By learning to play defence with a winning attitude in these situations, you will become even better at offense. You will come out stronger.