RESILIENT EDUCATIONAL LEADERS IN TURBULENT TIMES: APPLYING THE LEADER RESILIENCE PROFILE ® TO ASSESS RESILIENCY IN RELATIONSHIP TO GENDER AND AGE
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https://doi.org/10.12957/periferia.2018.34777Keywords:
educational leaders, resilience, gender, ageAbstract
Women leaders across the world confront a common challenge: extremely turbulent times that challenge even the most skillful leaders. The paper begins with a brief overview of the meaning of leader resilience and describes the resilience cycle that all leaders experience when adversity strikes. Five phases of the resilience cycle discussed are: normal conditions, deteriorating phase, adapting phase, recovering phase and growing phase. Next, the paper traces the development of the revised Leader Resilience Profile® (LRP) data that compares and contrasts leader resilience by gender and age. The results clearly show that resilience increased reliably with age. Participants in the 60+ age group, compared with the all-other age groups combined, had significantly higher resilience scores. In the 20-29 age group men had significant higher resilience than women. There were no reliable gender differences in resilience in the other age categories. The findings are based on a relatively small sample. Further research should be conducted on larger samples in each age range. The paper concludes by addressing two issues: How can the LRP be used across countries to assess women leader resilience and how can the LRP be applied to develop professional growth opportunities to strengthen women leaders’ resilience.
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