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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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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

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Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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

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My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm. After watching me grind it out around the fifth time I delivered the program, the company’s director of leadership development asked me if I wanted some feedback.

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Preparation Is the New Leadership Differentiator

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Preparation is the new leadership differentiator. They then focus on the “how” of the energy they’ll need to project to lead the group to that outcome. In watching and working with top executives and their teams over the past few years, I’ve come to a fresh conclusion. You might argue that preparation has always been important.

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How Successful Leaders Use Both Retail and Wholesale Communications

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There are any number of reasons to pay attention to primaries, one of which is you can learn a lot about leadership communications strategies and tactics by watching how the candidates do what they do. Adjust Your Energy Dial – As a general rule, the bigger the room, the bigger your energy needs to be.

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Nine Ways to Be an Energizing Online Leader

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Strong communication skills have always been an important factor in leadership effectiveness. Practicing good posture will increase your own energy and, in turn, make it easier to project that energy to others. What kind of vocal energy do you need to bring to make that outcome likely? People both want it and need it.

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How to Have Your Best Week

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For example, I recently talked with an assistant general counsel during a leadership workshop that I was doing for the big company she works for. 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.

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