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Leadership: Energy Management

By David Zinger on Jan 4, 2008 in David Zinger

Energy is the raw material of employee engagement.

This video briefly describes the key components of energy management for leaders:

  • Physical energy
  • Mental energy
  • Emotional energy
  • Sprititual energy
  • Organizational energy

When you think about leadership or managing do you think about managing your own energy?

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  1. Michelle Malay Carter | Jan 4, 2008 | Reply

    David,

    This is an important subject. Much energy within organizations is channeled into coping and compensating for poor systems. Instead of fixing the toaster, we set up entire departments of burned toast scrapers.

    Organizations could release a mother-lode of energy if the re-engineered their people systems, their organizational structure, and their managerial leadership frameworks to ENABLE PRODUCTIVE WORK.

    Then, employees could spend their energy working - not coping, compensating, and circumventing convoluted systems.

    It’s like holding a beach ball underwater. It’s not really a difficult task, but if I try to have a conversation with you while doing it, I really can’t be fully present in our conversation. Due to deficient systems, employees cannot be fully present for their work. (That would make a good blog post. Thanks for the idea!)

    Regards,

    Michelle

  2. David Zinger | Jan 4, 2008 | Reply

    Michelle,

    Wow, toast and beachballs all in one comment! I think energy is such a key lens to examine what we do and environment or organization can stifle or unlock that energy.

    Let me know when you write that post.

    David

  3. Michelle Malay Carter | Jan 8, 2008 | Reply

    David,

    Thanks for the encouragement. I posted the scraped toast, beach ball entry today. Although I must admit the scraping burned toast image wasn’t mine. I would give credit if I knew where it came from, but a colleague used the image with me, and I don’t believe she was the originator either.

    http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/are-your-employees-fully-present-at-work-coping-with-convoluted-systems

    Regards,

    Michelle Malay Carter

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