Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 13, 2024

As a women-owned business, our team at Active Choices, Inc. is especially inspired by Women’s History Month in March and International Women’s Day on March 8th.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We’ve just released our new product “7Questions You MUST Ask Yourself to Lead Your Team Well…And Get Things Done Quickly.” It’s here!

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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 14, 2023

We recognize these indicators in the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative™ (PEW-i) , and they are worth celebrating because they demonstrate that your organization is on the right track and creating an environment where your team can thrive. So, let's dive into what a Positive Energy Workplace DOES look like:

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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. At Active Choices, Inc. ,

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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

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

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

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. Many of them are highly successful at doing so.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

And so will your team. The tricky thing with this 'off' feeling of energy is that if you're not fully present and aware, you likely won't notice it consciously. But you'll feel it. And if you let it go on unaddressed, it will cost you financially and spiritually, as well as zap your time, energy, trust, impact, life force.

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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

MARCH 4, 2021

I had a meeting today with a team who'd asked me for some feedback. Our meeting was to discuss some of the core challenges they were having and how we might address. This is an awesome company, great group of people, doing good and important work, and all totally wiped out. Exhausted.

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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

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 8, 2020

Later today I’m meeting with an executive who needs to get his head and heart clear before he communicates the next steps of the organization and asks his leadership team to step in and lead with him, not by force but by invitation. 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

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

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In our office, on our team, at the dinner table, at the grocery store, in our morning commutes, with our workouts…. Everywhere we go, everything we do, everyone we engage with — we set the tone.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JANUARY 25, 2021

I recently had a conversation with an executive team who wanted to work on ways to make their culture feel better right now. People are tired, they're trying to connect remotely and do their jobs while walking their dogs and managing their kids' Zoom rooms, workload is high, connection is low, and presence is extra tricky right now.

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Anese Cavanaugh

MARCH 7, 2019

We recently had a team meeting where we got very little done. 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. This conversation wasn’t planned – it organically unfolded through our Culture Check-In Questions:

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 17, 2019

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! It was 10 a.m. yesterday when I felt "done" with my day. Which is the picture on this post today.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

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. The team had tolerated it for some time. The team had tolerated it for some time. The culprit? No one was winning.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2016

I had a meeting with my team last week. Yep, me, as the team leader… blew it. With my beautiful team. All of us were prepared, we had some good stuff to dig into. Everyone showed up on time, checked in, confirmed our agenda, and then…. My presence. How awesome. So what happened?

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

It will introduce you to new frameworks, help you strengthen your IEP and influence, build more of your field, lead in new ways, integrate this content with your team and relationships, work better with "George," and even invite “Georgette” to shift (if s/he wishes and if you're an "invitation").

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 9, 2017

George is an entrepreneur, has a small and tight team, has celebrated some big wins and losses, made some good money, lost some good money, hit some big impact, missed some big impact, and as he trained next to me, apparently was considering his next move. I met a gentleman at the gym a few weeks ago. Let's call him "George".)

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Anese Cavanaugh

OCTOBER 16, 2017

My assistant of 9 years passed away; we took apart my business and put it back together again; we reorganized the team, our systems, our processes, and many of our offerings; and I worked out, hiked, and wine tasted -- a lot. I've been on a special type of sabbatical for the last 2 months, a "formal reboot" of sorts. A ton has happened.

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I had my first client call, then a meeting, then a team meeting. I'd had a bumpy morning. It started out pretty great (except I'd run out of coffee, bad omen), but other than that, all looked good. Somewhere amongst one of my meetings, I let my energetic state and mood be "corrupted". No one "put" me in that mood -- I created it.

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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

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

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. “This is way more fun.” ” “I feel more inspired.” ” “I matter.”

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Anese Cavanaugh

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

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? All of these outcomes of course are completely unintended. But it happens. Is this you?

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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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