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Put Limits on Your Energy Drainers

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One of my favorite things to talk about with my executive coaching clients is “What are your energy givers and your energy drainers?”. Here are three simple but effective things you can do to ensure you get the optimal mix of energy in your work as a leader. They’re showing you who your energy givers are.

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Are You Leading the Room or Is the Room Leading You?

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When the room is high energy, you’re high energy. When the room is low energy, you’re low energy. I’m not paying you to follow the room’s energy; I’m paying you to lead the room’s energy.”. This idea should guide the energy you’re putting out there. I took a deep breath and said, “Sure.”.

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How Successful Leaders Use Both Retail and Wholesale Communications

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Adjust Your Energy Dial – As a general rule, the bigger the room, the bigger your energy needs to be. My natural energy setting is friendly but low key. She said, “I notice that when the group has a lot of energy, you have a lot of energy. Make your points for sure, but keep them short and memorable.

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How to Have Your Best Week

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I asked if her energy was more extroverted or introverted. Batch by Energy Impact : One thing this leader was extremely tuned into was her energy. As an introvert, she recognized that larger group meetings were energy drainers for her.

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Nine Ways to Be an Energizing Online Leader

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Practicing good posture will increase your own energy and, in turn, make it easier to project that energy to others. Tone of voice – The surest way to drain the energy out of a room – physical or virtual – is to speak in a flat monotone. What kind of vocal energy do you need to bring to make that outcome likely?

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Change at the Top: How to Succeed with a New Boss

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So, third, there’s usually a period of time when they spend a good bit of energy strategizing about how they can keep that power and influence. What they’re typically more concerned about losing is the power and influence they’ve accumulated. That’s understandable but it’s almost always the wrong move.

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How to Get Rid of the Things That Drain You

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It was a list of twenty nine things that were draining my energy back then. She had been cleaning out some files and found a document that she asked me to write for her when we were working together. I was in a bit of a funk in that period and the list included worries about family, health, friends, business – the works really.

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