Talking Tourism Episode 126 - Maybe You're (Not) Born With It with Linda Manaena

Talking Tourism

As Co-CEO at LeaderLab, Linda Manaena is on a mission to amplify humanity in leadership. With more than 20 years of leadership experience, Linda works with leaders to help them create an inclusive environment to get the best out of their teams. She works with leaders and teams spanning 10 countries to build their level of psychological safety, emotional intelligence, resilience at work, compassionate candour, and to consciously show up for each other in the most resourceful and accountable ways.
In today's episode, Rachel Williams sits down with Linda to talk resilience. More than just a buzzword of the past few years, Linda explains exactly what resilience is, why it's always been important and why we need to care about it now.
There's been many a debate about whether resilience is something you can hone or whether you're "just born with it" , Linda suggests that it can be developed and brings her best strategies for building your own resilience. While we might have some level of self-awareness to observe how we respond to challenging situations, Linda says there are ways to assess our current level of resilience and to identify the gaps that we can work on.
Rachel also asks Linda's opinion on how these past few (very) challenging years might have impacted the collective resilience of the Tasmanian tourism industry, and then dives into the concept of psychological safety to understand how tourism operators can develop it in their personal and professional lives.
Today’s episode is brought to you by our partner, TasVacations. TasVacations make it easy to plan your Tasmanian self-drive holiday. They love, live and breathe Tasmania, and will share their local knowledge of Tasmania’s attractions, cruises, guided walks, wineries and favourite restaurants. You can choose from one of their popular holiday packages including accommodation and car hire, and ask them to create a tailored touring holiday just for you. Thanks to TasVacations for their generous support of TICT and for helping to make this episode of Talking Tourism possible.