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Master Your Motivation

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Motivation is at the heart of everything you do and everything you want to do but don’t. Unfortunately, the ways we typically motivate ourselves don’t work. Traditional “motivators” such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy. Learn more and register here.

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5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels

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What you can do, however, is manage your energy. Energy is the amount of effort we expend into doing something. Approach a task with high levels of energy and you can often get the task completed with super-human speed. Approach the same task with lackluster energy, and it seems to take forever. Avoid Task Switching.

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Catalyzing Leadership Energy Building Ready Now Leaders

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Author Matt Paese explores leadership acceleration and how organizations can convert sluggish processes into dynamic adventures that produce energy instead of burning it. The post Catalyzing Leadership Energy Building Ready Now Leaders appeared first on Lead Change. Register for this FREE webinar here.

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The Unknown Motivational Factor

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If there is one thing that you can always count on when leading people, it’s that they know how and what motivates them. The most common motivational factors are family, financial, recognition or career progression, but sometimes it can be something out of the norm. Intrinsic motivation is where someone is motivated internally.

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The Organizational Energy Formula

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The shocking loss of meaning at work is energy draining. Alternative sources of energy are correspondingly and desperately sought. Such is the impact of a manager’s corrosive behavior on the energy flow of an organization. The Organizational Energy Formula. Et = E 1 +/- E 2 – E 3.

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Staying Motivated: How to Prime Your Pump

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Where does this type of energy come from? Leadership Development Growth motivation' .” — Socrates “Rev it up!” “ I’m pumped!” “Shake it loose!” In the rural section of Waverly, Virginia, where I grew up, there was no running water in the homes. Instead we had a community well with [.].

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Conflict Without Casualties

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When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves or each other to feel justified about their negative behavior. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. The cost is staggering.