This monthly publication was founded on the idea that leaders, regardless of their role, are the stewards of energy in organizations.
To sustain high performance, leaders must first manage their own energy - then mobilize, focus, and renew the energy of those they lead.
Performance Pulse provides practical, bite sized ways you can rise to this challenge.
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Is Your Identity Holding You Back?
By Russell Hunter
During times of rapid change and uncertainty, clarifying your identity is especially important. If you want to see and respond to opportunities in a turbulent economy, it starts by getting clear on who you are. Sustainable behavioral change is triggered when a fundamental shift in identity is made.
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Are you Riding a Dead Horse?
By Russell Hunter
Sometimes we feel like we're in a kayak hurtling through white water. Markets change, budgets freeze, priorities shift, organizations re-organize. Resisting it only makes the problem worse. Water is whirling and crashing in all directions, spray is stinging our eyes. It all seems to be spinning out of control in our brain, and soon we wind up unsure of what stroke to make next, which direction to go. Where do you focus when it all seems out of control?
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Five Questions You've Been Avoiding
By Russell Hunter
One of the first things to disappear when we get busy is frequent self reflection. And sadly, it is when we are busiest that we need to be the most self aware - to ensure we are managing our energy in service of what matters most, not just what's urgent. So... regardless of what lies ahead for you this year, here's five big questions worth mulling over.
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Mental Focus and the Two Minute Rule
By Russell Hunter
Although switching between tasks has a performance cost, it is important to realize when to act on the distraction, and when to simply acknowledge it and refocus. The Two Minute Rule is a guideline many of our clients have found helpful. It can not only help with distractions, but also keep your lists free of small, but important tasks.
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5 Strategies to Manage Your Energy When you Fly
By Russell Hunter
Traveling long distance by plane takes a toll on your energy. You are forced to sit for long periods of time, there are minimal breaks and you often have to cross time-zones, upsetting your sleep/awake patterns. However, there is plenty you can do to manage the challenges of a heavy travel schedule. Here are five that can have a huge impact.
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Avoiding Wild Boars - Touch the White Fence?
By Dr. Jim Loehr
What role does emotion play in completing any important mission or objective? To help our clients answer these questions, we often put them through a simple test that even the toughest NFL superstars who come to our HQ facility in Orlando Florida typically fail. Why is that?
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Are you Asking Yourself the Right Questions?
By Russell Hunter
The one thing we are never without is our thoughts - even when we are asleep! But how often do we think about the quality of our thinking? And since we ask and answer questions every day, our questions wield great power over our performance and results.
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6 Seconds to Engagement
By Russell Hunter
We all seem to know what stress is. But stress itself is not the real problem - we are. How simple changes in how we breath can deepen our engagement level almost instantly.
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How to Spot a Fake Smile
By Russell Hunter
Each of us smiles in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. Some smiles are an outward expression of our inner thoughts and feelings. Other smiles are simply put on. How can you tell if one of your team members is really happy or just being polite?
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My Secret Recipe for Managing in Mayhem
By Chris Obst
There's no denying there are a lot of things that are out of our control right now. But there always are. How can you effectively manage people on your team despite this mayham? Here's my secret recipe.
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Is Your Organization's Culture REALLY to Blame?
By Dr. Jim Loehr
If alignment of stories, yours and your organization's, is to be achieved - and I believe it's neither as lofty nor as complicated a task as it may sound - then it's ideally generated both from top down (the
oranization's side) and bottom up (the employee's side).
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Stop Letting Things Slide!
By Chris Obst
What are you tolerating that you have the power to change? Think about your people, projects, systems, behaviours, technical issues, the nagging feeling that you need to brush up on something, the tension in the air about an unresolved issue. Here are steps to overcome this.
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Managing Team Energy During Adversity
By Russell Hunter
Everyone faces fears, doubts and obstacles. But how we respond to them will define our leadership legacy. How to ordinary people become extraordinary leaders under extraordinary conditions?
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5 Reasons Why Taking Your Holidays Helps Your Team
By Chris Obst
I had a client tell me recently that since being in management, he hasn't felt able to take all his annual vacation time. I told him that he seriously needs to get out. In case you know someone like that… I thought I'd share some things that came out of our conversation. How does the decision not to take all your vacation time affect the energy of your team?
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Own Your Meetings
By Chris Obst
If I asked your direct reports about the quality of your meetings, what would they say? A lot of managers struggle with leading effective, powerful, energized meetings. Here are are two simple things you can do to change this.
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