Tempered Resilience Study Guide

A Companion Resource to Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change

Go deeper into the crucible of change and forge the leadership your organization needs.

Tempered Resilience Study Guide, a companion to leadership expert Tod Bolsinger's book Tempered Resilience, is designed to transform the book's vital lessons into lived practice for you and your team. While you explore the qualities of adaptive leadership with Tempered Resilience, this companion guide helps you grasp the hands-on tools to cultivate them.

True resilience is not formed in isolation. The sessions in this guide are designed to lead to honest conversations for self-discovery as well as offering practices that leaders and their teams can take on together. Following the structure of review, reflect, relate, and practice, you will unlock honest conversations and build the relationships necessary to lead through resistance.

This study guide is for leaders who are ready to move from understanding to application. Are you ready to forge the kind of leadership that is demanded in our rapidly changing world?

Leadership leads to vulnerability that requires the security of relationships to endure.

Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change is about forming resilience so leaders can lead through the resistance that always accompanies change. Tod Bolsinger, an organizational and pastoral leader, writes that experiencing resistance leaves us feeling "exposed, unsure, and often discouraged." Honest and supportive relationships are key to flourishing in these moments of vulnerability. Thus the sessions in this guide are designed to lead to honest conversations for self-discovery as well as offering practices that leaders and their teams can take on together.

Following the structure of review, reflect, relate, and practice, this guide for both individuals and groups will help you to forge the kind of tempered and resilient leadership that the times demand.