Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

our team regularly interacts with leaders in organizations who are interested in supporting and optimizing their company culture. At Active Choices, Inc. , but in the long term, these “quick fixes” are not sustainable and can end up costing your company more time, energy, money, and trust with your people.

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Anese Cavanaugh

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In our previous article , we shared insights around focusing on the importance of energy accountability with your leadership teams and workforce.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 12, 2012

Contribution is a big deal in leadership and creating. This dynamic, by the way, is one of the things that I see creating the most tension, resistance, and confusion in organizations and teams today.). This might be with our teams, our family, or our friends and peers. Try this on with your team. Reciprocity with others.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I was working with a brilliant business leader last week on her leadership impact with her team. She needed some support with some of the team dynamics she was seeing -- specifically around trust and safety on the team. She also had a strong sense she was a part of creating said dynamics.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

They’re some of the core qualities of effective empathetic leadership. They’re the last thing she’d want to do to anyone on her team. This processing is confusing to the team, sets people on potentially many wrong paths, and generally leaves people frustrated. Been on a team where this has happened?

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 3, 2013

(Full disclosure, primarily as a customer — and, of course, I’ve also made friends with their leadership team.). The leadership team decided to add a bit of love into their every interaction with clients and customers. Add Love to your leadership. “This is way more fun.” compassion.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 12, 2012

Contribution is a big deal in leadership and creating. This dynamic, by the way, is one of the things that I see creating the most tension, resistance, and confusion in organizations and teams today.). This might be with our teams, our family, or our friends and peers. Try this on with your team. Reciprocity with others.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you’re familiar at all with my work or my stance, you’ll know that I’m a stand for leadership and that I get to work with some of the most innovative companies and business leaders in helping them create more effective leadership and impact in the world. The better our leadership impact. We all know this.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 26, 2013

You didn’t get to where you are today without some really good effective leadership skills… Though maybe you did. How can I inspire more leadership and engagement in my team? You lead your company. It’s all good… Except when it’s not. For this post, I’ve chosen just 7. Best news of the day?

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 17, 2017

Recently I was asked to consult with an organization to help them shift their culture to one of greater health, leadership, productivity, and morale. The team pulled together consisted of several thought leaders from different industries, some of the organization's leadership, several of their employees, and me. Slow down.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 22, 2015

Recently I helped a client get ready for an intense conversation with his team. His concern was that if he didn't handle it well, he'd create a mess, not have any clean next steps, waste time, and ultimately demoralize the team. There'd been some big stuff happening in their division, not all of it great. He was nervous.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 13, 2012

Creating space for authenticity, creating a different kind of “above the bar” Giving people the space to live “below the bar” every once in a while; to provide care; compassion; support; and safe space; to witness them, is an act of leadership. Leadership requires authenticity. Cool, I get it.

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Are you spending a lot of time in meetings? How about in your head? Both have value. Both overdone are exhausting. So this week, try one or all of these five ways to make your meetings and mindset better.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 24, 2015

Buzz buzz, humm humm, you and your team are jamming. You have an awesome couple of weeks. Things are humming along. You make a couple (maybe many) big decisions.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 13, 2012

Creating space for authenticity, creating a different kind of “above the bar” Giving people the space to live “below the bar” every once in a while; to provide care; compassion; support; and safe space; to witness them, is an act of leadership. Leadership requires authenticity. Cool, I get it.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 12, 2012

I say this as a teacher and a student…receiving is a leadership skill. I do this exercise in my client and student workshops where I have members of the team BE with acknowledgement. And this is WHY receiving is a leadership skill. It is, in fact, a leadership skill. The fine art of receiving. Feel into that one.)

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 23, 2010

Simple leadership musings from the trenches: motivation. I find that if I have to motivate my clients, or help them motivate their teams, we’re likely looking in the wrong area, we’re missing something. If the motivation comes from an extrinsic place, ie.

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 26, 2009

What’s your team going through right now? Acknowledge. A close cousin to gratitude. How are they showing up? Who are they “being” in the face of challenge and unknown outcomes? How can you be more helpful to them? This is a tip from the complete article “ Dare to Stay Engaged with a Positive Mindset “

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 2, 2009

Work with your team. Talk about what’s going on. Be open about it. Invite them into the conversation. Tell the truth (be aware of and response-able for your impact here.) Brainstorm solutions. Give them ownership for creating solutions that will help you move through challenges together.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 12, 2012

I say this as a teacher and a student…receiving is a leadership skill. I do this exercise in my client and student workshops where I have members of the team BE with acknowledgement. And this is WHY receiving is a leadership skill. It is, in fact, a leadership skill. The fine art of receiving. Feel into that one.)

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

He wanted a stronger leadership presence with his team, he wanted to be known as someone people could trust, and he wanted to make partner the following year. My client “George” wanted to become a better leader. Specifically?

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 4, 2022

My team and I get asked questions all the time about the quickest three things to do for this or that or all of the above. Building a healthy culture and an authentic Positive Energy Workplace™ takes awareness, honesty, intention, energy, presence, and action.

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Your environment and the systems you have to support you (individually and as a team) are key to success in optimizing your leadership and results.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 1, 2016

I had a meeting with my team last week. Yep, me, as the team leader… blew it. Here we are, a company helping people up-level presence in order to be more effective in their leadership and impact, and I had just sucked the energy out of the room. With my beautiful team. My presence. How awesome. So what happened?

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Wherever you’re at in creating the leadership and culture you want – for your organization, team, family, client relationships, or even your circle of friends… It doesn’t have to be hard. Leadership. How do you know what your culture is actually like, and how solid the quality of your leadership is?

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 26, 2009

The Dare To Engage® Team and I will be hosting a Bootist Retreat in St. Charles, Il on July 24th and 25th where I’ll share the Art of Bootism and help you integrate it into your own life and leadership (if you so choose)! “Boots on” gives leadership that extra kick. It’s a choice.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 7, 2014

Each of which is making my work better, my team better, and my joy better. Your team spends 15 minutes a week inputting what’s up for them, what they’re working on, what they need, what they’re happy about, whatever… (You can customize questions.) You know what’s up, where the hot spots are, and how you can better serve your team.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Originally shared on ceo.com in partnership with Switch & Shift’s Leadership Presence Series. It was simply the expense of negative energy brought into a team meeting leading to lost productivity, distracted focus, and funky team dynamics*. It involved two people within a small team of eight. Conservatively.

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

All sorts of stuff on what leadership needs today, how our presence is what creates more of our impact than we realize, how to optimize how you show up for everyone—including yourself, and 6 things for these guys to start doing NOW, individually and as a team, to enhance the effectiveness and energy of their leadership and culture.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 26, 2021

In the work I'm doing with leaders and their teams right now, versions of this topic come up in our one-on-ones. Burnout, stress, overwhelm, feeling unseen, unappreciated, and not on purpose being some of the key reasons cited. This checks. Lots of people are looking to leave.

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I’m pretty good at “holding my space” and not letting this kind of energy pull on me, but this time, knowing I’d be heading into a long term partnership that my team and I would be paying for, well this one, screamed “red flag” I listened. With your team? We have people bringing their teams.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 13, 2020

My team and I are devoted to helping things go better, showing up well with you, bending and flexing to be as useful as possible, staying well and working our IEP ourselves, and serving you in this time in new ways as needed. Here's how.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 6, 2020

As we become more and more virtually-based (V), leading team meetings, having 1:1's, teaching, speaking, dating, relating, and all things human connection over pixels, our Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) + (V) is more important than ever.

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 9, 2020

My team and I thought it might be useful to others. After all, my two biggest books talk about CONTAGIOUS YOU and CONTAGIOUS CULTURE, and this whole body of work is about SHOWING UP for ourselves and each other. A most recent note really pulled at my heart, I gave it my best response in this moment and during this time. Love to you always.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 4, 2009

Develop yourself and your people – NOW. Now is the time to take advantage of some of the space you may have in your schedules and bandwidth to actually develop the people in your company.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 21, 2014

We’ll post a link to the interview when my team gets it up. Lean in, vulnerability is sexy — and a leadership skill – GO.). from Anese IEP Method Leadership Tips' You need help, and asking for help is an edge for you. You have your own reasons and adrenal perks for “busy”… pick yours!

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 21, 2020

Digging into work yesterday I received a text from a client updating me on their status and letting me know that she, her team, and their healthcare organization (a hospital right on the frontlines in a highly affected area) were doing okay. I read the text and burst into tears. Gratitude and relief. My mom called me last night to check in.

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