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4 Ways to Change the Energy Conversation!

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Sandy Pentland and Daniel Olguin at MIT’s Human Dynamics Lab outfitted five executives with devices that recorded data on their social signals – not what they said, but their tone of voice, gesticulation, proximity to others, personal energy, and more. And yet, we tend to avoid a deeper conversation about the energy experience.

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Leading Like the Energizer Bunny

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Leaders who aren’t able to effectively manage their energy are subject to: · Making poor decisions · Communicating ineffectively · Missing the obvious and the subtle · Managing their emotions improperly So what techniques do leaders use to manage their energy? They use their high-energy times like the Energizer Bunny.

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How to Cultivate Leadership Presence in a Remote Working World

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Other people are attracted by this expansive energy and want to draw closer. Wasted energy and lost potential are the result. Whilst lashing out at others provides a short-term release of pent-up energy, it pollutes the atmosphere. We stay in contact with what’s happening in the room, as well as what’s going on inside us.

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Are You Managing Penguins or Polar Bears?

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"Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.". In a recent UNH Executive Development Program , the instructor, Professor Jim Clawson, challenged a group a senior managers to reflect on how they are managing their personal energy, and as leaders, the impact they are having on their employee’s energy.

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Why Leaders Need to Role Model and Live Your Company Values

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Guest post from Debra Corey: My 18 year-old daughter has entered the workforce, full of energy, full of passion and full of some very strong opinions. Values give your employees the energy and passion to not only make decisions, but to get things done. In her words, she hates hypocrites! Values fuel your workforce.

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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

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you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. When we ask broad questions, we invite a lot of wasted energy. Changing the question changes the range of possible solutions. But changing the question to, “How can we retain the right talent?”

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The Quality All Great Leaders Have in Common – and How to Cultivate It Within Yourself

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And while it is very compelling to give our attention, our focus, and therefore our powerful, magnetic creative energy to those things that are not right now as we would like them to be, directing the precious gift of our attention in this manner nails our creative feet to the floor and keeps us from cooperating with our own desires.

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