{"id":2362,"date":"2021-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/vlogs\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:19:53","slug":"virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google","status":"publish","type":"vlog","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Leaders Meet: Evolution of Leadership \u2013 Cultivating Resilience at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/session-6-hero-image.png);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                Jun 14, 2021                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Videos<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Virtual Leaders Meet: Evolution of Leadership \u2013 Cultivating Resilience at Google<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/human-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/summit-session\/\" rel=\"tag\">Summit Session<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/&#038;text=Virtual Leaders Meet: Evolution of Leadership \u2013 Cultivating Resilience at Google\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Virtual Leaders Meet: Evolution of Leadership \u2013 Cultivating Resilience at Google. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/videos\/virtual-leaders-meet-the-evolution-of-leadership-cultivating-resilience-at-google\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                            \n                                                                <div class=\"video video__inline\">\n                                        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/561845685\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n                                    <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p>We wrapped up proceedings with a little help from Google\u2019s Head of Global Resilience, Lauren Whitt. Google\u2019s culture has long been noted for its quirkiness and the strength of its teams, but of equal importance is the resilience and mental performance of its staff, who are affectionately known as \u2018Googlers\u2019. Not only does Google care for its staff, Whitt firmly believes that resilience is a performance skill in a robust work environment.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, Whitt explained that Google\u2019s common language is critical to their success and so the organisation has come together on a definition of resilience that resonates with Googlers: \u2018The ability to respond to and recover from stress\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, she reached out to sports psychologists, mental performance coaches and clinical psychologists working with elite athletes to help build a team to create and deliver Google\u2019s \u2018Meet the Moment\u2019 programme. The intention is to help Googlers meet their moments of resilience and mental performance. Whitt ran through four scenarios where resilience can be cultivated:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. How do I balance competing priorities?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to remember that resilience is dynamic, it\u2019s not stagnant; it builds; it ebbs and flows,\u201d said Whitt. \u201cOur experience with resilience and feeling confidence and demonstrating habits and routines means we have the ability to zoom in and zoom out all day every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere do you as a performance coach need to be zooming in? Where do you need to be zooming out? If you\u2019re a coach, where are the pieces of your team where you need to be zooming out and you need to be in the details more? And where are the places where you can step back, step out, and let the team solve it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. How do I navigate crisis moments?<\/p>\n<p>Whitt spoke of a rock climber Mark Owens who was instructed to focus on his three-foot world [the space immediately around him] when he encountered a moment of crisis on a rock face. She said: \u201cOftentimes, when crisis comes and panic overcomes us, we start looking out and about that everything that\u2019s happening. But how can we stay in our three-foot world? What are the tools in our three-foot world? Sometimes if you\u2019re a leader in your world the \u2018no update\u2019 update will calm your people down; if you don\u2019t know the answer, just say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. How do I know when to detach and take a break?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResilience prioritises rest and recovery, not endurance and grit,\u201d said Whitt. \u201cYou do it for your athletes but we often forget as leaders, as people working with high performers, that we also need you at your best. We also need you to be able to make decisions on the fly and to be sharp and to be crisp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. How do I know what\u2019s important right now?<\/p>\n<p>Whitt said: \u201cResilience rests on the shoulders of relationships.\u201d To help create those moments, Google have introduced the \u2018TEA check-in\u2019, which provides a framework for leaders unskilled in mental health to check-in with their people in a simple and effective manner. They may ask: \u201cHow\u2019s your TEA today?\u201d There are a series of statements in three buckets that will be familiar to Googlers:<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts \u2013 \u2018Today my mind is\u2026\u2019 \u2018To refocus I need to\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Energy \u2013 \u2018Today my energy is\u2026 \u2018To change or maintain, I need to\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Attention \u2013 \u2018To be my best today, I will focus on doing or being\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":2363,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[21,33],"pathway":[],"topic":[],"sport":[],"class_list":["post-2362","vlog","type-vlog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-performance","category-summit-session"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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