Shaping Culture Through Your Intentional Energetic Presence with Anese Cavanaugh

Published: Nov. 12, 2019, 4:57 a.m.

b'Anese Cavanaugh wants to help you bring your best self to the table in order to create significant positive impact in your life. She is the creator of the IEP Method\\xae (Intentional Energetic Presence) and an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organizations around the world. She has written three books: Her first is called Contagious Culture, her second is The Leader You Will Be, and her third\\u2014which was released just last week\\u2014is called Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want. \\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Every single one of us creates the culture and dynamics within an organization.\\n- Take care of yourself and be aware of how you are showing up in order to be a more effective leader\\n- Your intentional energetic presence is unique to you. It is how you are when you are in service of creating a positive impact and taking care of yourself, and it can shift depending on what is needed in a given situation.\\n- If people are not responding how you want or expect, look at how you can change to shift the interview in the room. Often, this shift includes curiosity or gratitude.\\n- Whether you do or do not love your culture, there is something you are doing to contribute to that.\\n- The lowest energy in a room will win unless someone else is more committed to helping things go well.\\n- Presence begets presence but busy begets busy.\\n- Busyness, gossip, and a lack of direct engagement are the biggest cultural killers. Model the opposite!\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? 1. Life is in relationship 2. The quality of your results is the quality of your communication 3. What is the littlest thing I can do in this moment to help things go better? 4. What is most in-service of this moment?\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d 1. In relationship 2. Well-resourced 3. Present and intentional.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? Am I having the impact I want? How am I taking care of myself to have that impact?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Take a breath, take a minute to get in front of whatever you have doing on, and take really good care of yourself.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d Neither! Instead, ask "what?" and "who?"\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://www.anesecavanaugh.com/ (https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/)\\nFor more in Anese\'s IEP Method\\xae: https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/resources/ (www.iep.io)\\n\\nFind Anese Cavanaugh on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/AneseCavanaugh (@AneseCavanaugh)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/anesecavanaugh/ (@AneseCavanaugh)'