I’ve always said that the measure of a good team isn’t how they operate when everything goes right – its how they conduct themselves when they face adversity.  Do you look at issues as problems or as opportunities for excellence?  In his book, Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities, author Paul Stoltz defines the three levels of adversity as Individual, Workplace, and Societal and represents them in a pyramid.  The individual is on the bottom level, illustrating how workplace and societal pressures can crush us if we cannot climb to the top.  It also shows that, “positive change at all three levels starts with you, the individual, and works up, affecting the workplace, and ultimately society-at-large”. (Stoltz, 1999).

Can you describe an occasion when your team has faced adversity and you have been the positive change that influenced the group to face it head on?

 

 

Stoltz, P. (1999). Adversity quotient: turning obstacles into opportunities. New York: Wiley.

 

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By Conrado Morlan

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