Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 9, 2023

Is your organization looking to create a positive and thriving work environment that fuels innovation and inspires your employees to perform at their best? Here are three energizing outcomes to envision when your organization begins the IEP Method journey and completes credentialing:

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

our team regularly interacts with leaders in organizations who are interested in supporting and optimizing their company culture. Culture has surfaced as a critical factor that can make or break an organization's success. At Active Choices, Inc. ,

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 14, 2023

If you missed it, make sure to check it out because it's essential to understanding what might be holding your organization back from reaching its full potential. In our previous blog post (Part 1) , we shared indicators that your company may not be a Positive Energy Workplace.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 11, 2023

we've been in the business of helping organizations cultivate Positive Energy Workplaces for more than two decades, and during that time we’ve worked with many high-performing teams and organizational partners and gathered an immense amount of insights along the way. At Active Choices, Inc.,

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 2, 2023

3 Questions Corporate L&D Leaders Can Ask to Determine if there is a Stickiness Problem Your organization is investing in training, coaching, and cultural transformation initiatives and spending a lot of time, energy, money, and “workforce trust equity” in doing so. It’s a big lift with lots riding on the success of these initiatives.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

My team and I have been both deep in the trenches with and also witness to many organizations going through big changes right now. There are several things, many very nuanced however VERY LOUD, to pay attention to in order to truly create organizational and cultural health NOW.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you're responsible for leading organizational culture, retention/attraction, innovation, change, performance, etc. -- and especially if your organization is struggling with any of these things right now -- you're going to want to pay extra attention to this post as the energy of your workforce lies at the heart of all of them. ).

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 8, 2020

I met with a group of executives yesterday about what’s happening in their organizations as they navigate leadership, culture, and COVID-19. This morning I got a note about a CEO sending out a “panicked deck” before his meeting with investors.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 11, 2022

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

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 20, 2021

“It’s naive to think in today’s day and age that an organization does not play a part in their employees’ wellness.” -- Tara Ataya, chief people and diversity officer at Hootsuite.

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Anese Cavanaugh

AUGUST 27, 2019

With the World Health Organization (WHO) making it an official medical diagnosis and putting it in their handbook ( International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) , the conversation around burnout is shifting… it’s “real.”.

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Anese Cavanaugh

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

You have a training program you're about to launch that is costing your organization big resources in time, energy, money, and people. This training is the thing that will help your workforce get on the same page around culture, leadership, and the skills (and ways of being) required to do them well.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I've spent the last twenty years building out the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) body of work, writing books and creating programs devoted to leadership and culture, and working deeply with organizations who wanted to have healthy high-performing positively contagious cultures for happy people and solid business results.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JUNE 11, 2020

I will be doing more video and discussion of what may be happening in your organizations, cultures, and personal and executive leadership. We are experimenting and doing something a bit different for these blogs now.

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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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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In my work with human beings and organizations to build healthier cultures, create positive impact, and to get in front of burnout all together, I’ve found the most sustainable and pleasurable change requires a three-pronged approach, a trifecta of sorts, and four P’s.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 7, 2019

This conversation wasn’t planned – it organically unfolded through our Culture Check-In Questions: We had a list of five things to knock out, we completed two. We ended up having a significant conversation about our culture and how we were each doing.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

After having done this work for over twenty years with all kinds of organizations, business leaders, humans, and industries, I knew the answer to "Does it really net a financial impact and is it good business and is it worth tending to?" was a HUMONGOUS “YES.”

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 30, 2019

I've talked with several people and organizations this quarter who are stressing about pipelines, culture, and organizational results. These three things go together. They all effect each other. And they're a big opportunity to reboot, remember, and revise.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 25, 2021

This organization was particularly interested in exploring ways to build resiliency and create a healthy culture now in this new business environment.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 17, 2019

I've named it "Organized Meaningful Chaos." The previous week had been physically, mentally, and emotionally intense with special attention being needed in the land of "being a mom," "leading a team," "completing" a vendor relationship early, working with clients, and finishing the book! Which is the picture on this post today.

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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.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MAY 21, 2015

In my work with business leaders and their organizations, the majority of them want to avoid "hierarchy" in the organization in as many ways as possible. They set structures in place to create more of a "flat" organization, they get clear on organizational values, and they get very intentional about the culture they want to create.

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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. Try this on today as you move through your day, through your meetings, and through your organization. ” You choose.

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Brilliant woman, tons of stuff going on, major impact happening through her organization. Recently I did some on-site work with one of my favorite executive clients. From the outside, things were humming.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives hits bookshelves at retailers near you. Well… today is the day.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the book Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives (McGraw-Hill), I invite readers to take an inside-out approach to leadership and cultural optimization.

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Anese Cavanaugh

DECEMBER 25, 2011

You hear about it from vendors, organizations, products and services, and in employee performance conversations and sales pitch meetings. An organization better. And more specific questions – with one in particular you likely have not thought about…What is it to “add value” to your organization?

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 5, 2012

will not clean or organize themselves – but when clean and organized will give you multiple ROIs in self-care, energy management, and internal peace. Your “me” time and space to be present with yourself? Your physical environment? Those pantries, closets, refrigerators, cars, offices, etc.

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Anese Cavanaugh

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If, at a minimum, senior leadership in your company starts doing this – really starts doing this, and more consciously – you’ll see a shift in engagement and happiness in your organization – very quickly. Bring joy to yourself and your organization – do the little things: I call this “Cupcakes” (again, check out the paper.)

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 4, 2012

Common themes (with simple flips) that come up as the root of some of the most complex of problems for clients and their organizations. Random things that come up in the state of this thing we called being human. Try these on, which one’s resonate? Which one’s serve you? definitely…that!”

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 26, 2013

Regardless your circumstance, your position, the size of your organization, your industry, or even regardless of if you’ve been deemed “leader” or not, there are things you’re doing that are either optimizing your leadership and presence or slowing it down. Why don’t they think I’m inspiring?

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 12, 2013

Dare to imagine the organization or culture that gets created because you care, and you’ll take a stand. You have something you love dearly. Deep in your heart, deep in your soul. It’s there. Dare to imagine the world that exists through your leadership. Allow it in. Dare to want it.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 7, 2014

So much great stuff out there to help us optimize, organize, and show up even more powerfully in the world. Great to use consistently, and even if it’s just for a boost and for awareness, that works too. There you go. Five simple apps that are user friendly, life enhancing, and reasonably priced (or free!).

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 11, 2009

It wasn’t the company (—or the company —) but rather a delicious fresh piece of organic spinach that had lodged itself halfway down my throat and halfway in my mouth. It’s how Popeye got strong and it’s how your organization can get strong. First off, it’s uncomfortable. There’s a whole bunch of information on the main ZingTrain site.

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Anese Cavanaugh

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The majority of these responses were from senior leadership, founders, and executives in creative organizations (design & innovation related) who are committed to creating cultures of authenticity, leadership, reciprocity, and collaboration. I thought the themes were interesting.

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 3, 2013

And this story is not limited to this business in particular, I’d put “love” at the top of my “leadership remedy list” for any organization or team. This might even be the difference in how good and full you feel at the end of your day. What are you waiting for? Go love someone. //axc. Thanks Pete!

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