I felt completely defeated last Saturday.

I faced a major challenge while preparing for the last day of the Employability Leverage training, which I wrote about last week.

I was delayed for 2 hours as a result, but looking back at how the situation was handled by I and my team, I would realize that it is the same with what Kai Lovel shared in his talk.

The setback was an electrical outage at the hall, even after having checked all that before then. It was so bad that even when we turned on the alternative power supply, it still couldn't power the hall.

A particular socket had burnt and was bridging all forms of power supply to the hall.

My team and I were there. The media team were there. The speakers were there. Our audience had already joined our streaming link, but had no content to view. It was really bad. I felt defeated, and if tears was an option, this would have been a perfect time for it to flow like the river Nile.

But God's Grace was with it, and I have really learnt to push on despite all that happens. That was the only mindset that changed everything for us

We later spoted the problem and fixed it, but by them we were already 2hrs behind schedule. What would the solution be?

Perfect! Create a full session of talks from the speakers and share as an ever present content for our audience and more persons who are to discover it in the future.

Perfect, a sustainable way of still curating the training sessions.

The speakers were surprisingly understanding and patient! We kept communicating with them, and they were kind enough to wait. After all that, their sessions were well recorded and it seemed like a flawless event!

We were faced with a challenge, but rather than looking at it from the perspective of good and bad, we chose to look at it from the perspective of either staying the same or growing.

These were the two approached to setback that Kai noted. We chose the later and it is based on 3 steps. The steps really might not be easy, but they are functional.

• Recognize and have self-talk about the setback
• Embrace setbacks and emotions
• Find the opportunities in setbacks

We were able to really understand the situation we were in, and what it meant to our guest speakers and audience. Communication helped out a lot here, both for us the organisers and for our audience.

We then took advantage of the opportunity we had to create a more sustainable training material where many more persons can take part in this bank of knowledge.

Do you want to take part in this share of knowledge?

How do you handle setbacks when they come your way?