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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

By learning to recognize these thought patterns and course-correcting accordingly, I’ve spared myself a lot of trouble. I don’t take it for granted that I’m going to be successful. When my energy is low, my favorite technique to rejuvenate and unleash creativity is to close my eyes and allow my attention to gently float in my brain.

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Year-in-Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings

Let's Grow Leaders

Contribution to the Team (also interesting to see what people see as their “best of,” and, of course, this can set the table for additional gratitude ). Collaboration (This is a chance to talk about when teamwork was at its very best) Of course, a good follow-up question is… what made these best-ofs so great?

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How Do I Encourage My Coworker to Take Initative? (without coming across as a jerk)

Let's Grow Leaders

If you want someone to take initiative, a good place to start is to be clear about what success looks like. Appreciate Different Styles Understand that we all have different motivational energies. And really it’s often that energy gap that’s causing all kinds of tension. How to Start the Conversation 1.

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How Social Norms Affect Our Energy Usage

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more famous applications was the use of social comparisons on energy bills to encourage more prudent energy usage. New research , undertaken by the RFF CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), explores how our general desire to conform to what others do can affect our energy consumption.

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How to Stop Being Perceived as Negative at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Of course, you might be right. If you’re talking to an “idea person”, they want to explore and build on ideas, not have their creativity and energy crushed before their ideas can breathe. Which of course, is unlikely. What do you do? Are you wrong? And that you want to save the business time and money.

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How Successful Leaders Use Both Retail and Wholesale Communications

Next Level Blog

The most successful ones tend to go both broad and deep with their communications. Successful candidates are masters of both retail communications (the coffee klatches and selfies) and wholesale communications (the rallies and ad campaigns). My natural energy setting is friendly but low key.

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Positively Energizing Leaders Are Heliotropic

Lead Change Blog

The heliotropic effect describes the inherent tendency in all living things toward positive energy and away from negative energy. In nature, the sun is the source of positive, life-giving energy, so the heliotropic effect explains why plants and other organisms lean toward the light over time. Solving problems is the goal.