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Creating an (authentically) Positive Energy Workplace™ & Leadership (video)

Anese Cavanaugh

Why is positive energy important? For years we've worked with leaders and organizations on building healthier more positively contagious cultures and authentic positive energy leadership. I know positive energy is important, yes yes yes. How do we create it? How does it impact our culture?

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15 Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders

Leading Blog

W HEN YOU HEAR the term positive leadership , it is easy to get cynical and think it is all happy-talk and disconnected from reality. Relational energy is brought to you by virtuous actions like generosity, compassion, gratitude, trustworthiness, forgiveness, and kindness. Positive energizing is not transactional. “A

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Understanding Energy Leadership: Harnessing Anabolic and Catabolic Energy

CO2

Introduction: The Essence of Energy Leadership In his influential book, “ Energy Leadership : Transforming your Workplace and your Life from the Core,” Bruce Schneider introduces a groundbreaking concept: the two forms of energy that impact our lives and leadership styles – anabolic and catabolic energy.

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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. It is renewing.

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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. C HAOS is ubiquitous and inevitable. Why don’t we?

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Approaching Leadership Excellence Through New Angles

Leading Blog

The physics of a prism can also be applied to leadership: In an agile work environment, it is valuable to slow down and reconsider which leadership angle to take in particular situations. The PRISM Model offers five angles to leading people and forms the bedrock of leadership excellence. What is your purpose in life?

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Dealing with Anger: 3 ways to Transform Negative Energy into Positive Action

Leadership Freak

Successful leaders know how to transform negative energy into positive action. You don’t care enough if you never feel irritation or frustration. The temptation of anger: Emotion controls action. Angry leaders get quick… Continue reading →

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