For The Greater Baltimore Tech Council May 27, 2009 By Greg Conderacci Good Ground Consulting LLC Strength Strategies for Leadership Results: Generating Personal and Organizational Energy

Objective: Performance Learn to focus your energy for peak performance when it counts the most Learn to use energy management – not time management – to “go the distance” Develop strategies to improve your life, your career, and your company Have fun!

Learn to focus your energy for peak performance when it counts the most

Learn to use energy management – not time management – to “go the distance”

Develop strategies to improve your life, your career, and your company

Have fun!

Your Energy Addict 60 – Endurance athlete for 45 years Bike across the country in 26 days (130 miles/day) Climb Kilimanjaro (19,000+ feet) Ride Paris-Brest-Paris – 750 miles in 72.5 hours High energy marketing consultant/JHU faculty Chief Marketing Officer for Investment Bank Wall Street Journal Reporter

60 – Endurance athlete for 45 years

Bike across the country in 26 days (130 miles/day)

Climb Kilimanjaro (19,000+ feet)

Ride Paris-Brest-Paris – 750 miles in 72.5 hours

High energy marketing consultant/JHU faculty

Chief Marketing Officer for Investment Bank

Wall Street Journal Reporter

The Lie of Time All time is sacred Make every second count Invest time in what we care about most Do that, and your life will have meaning and your relationships will grow BUT SIMPLY INVESTING TIME IS MEANINGLESS! Source: The Power of Story

All time is sacred

Make every second count

Invest time in what we care about most

Do that, and your life will have meaning and your relationships will grow

BUT SIMPLY INVESTING TIME IS MEANINGLESS!

The Myths of Time Management You will have more time You will get more done You will be a success You will have more energy

You will have more time

You will get more done

You will be a success

You will have more energy

The Truths about Energy You can’t get more time – but you can get more energy It’s not about time management -- it’s about energy management What you really need to do takes energy

You can’t get more time – but you can get more energy

It’s not about time management -- it’s about energy management

What you really need to do takes energy

The Long Road…

A Rider’s Energy Levels I cannot move. I can just make my way down the road, slowly I can roll along at a steady pace I am moving at my own pace. I am flying I am above the road in complete flow

I cannot move.

I can just make my way down the road, slowly

I can roll along at a steady pace

I am moving at my own pace.

I am flying

I am above the road in complete flow

You vs. Professional Athletes Them 90% of time training 10% perform “ Off season” – months Career: 5 – 7 years You No training Perform – 8-12 hours/day every day Few days off Career: 40+ years

Them

90% of time training

10% perform

“ Off season” – months

Career: 5 – 7 years

You

No training

Perform – 8-12 hours/day every day

Few days off

Career: 40+ years

Your Energy PIES Physical Energy + Intellectual Energy + Emotional Energy + Spiritual Energy Full Engagement Source: The Power of Full Engagement

Physical Energy

+ Intellectual Energy

+ Emotional Energy

+ Spiritual Energy

Full Engagement

The Loehr Principles Draw from 4 energy sources Balance expenditure with renewal Push beyond normal limits Develop positive energy rituals

Draw from 4 energy sources

Balance expenditure with renewal

Push beyond normal limits

Develop positive energy rituals

The Pulse of High Performance Successful people are oscillatory beings in an oscillatory universe. Rhythmicity is our inheritance. – The Power of Full Engagement

Daily Energy Flows

Physical Energy: Fueling the Fire

Physical Energy Sinks: The Seattle Effect T.I.R.E.D? Source: 10-Minute Energy Solution The Energy Mafia

Physical “Muscles” 5-6 low calorie meals a day 64 oz of water 7-8 hours of sleep Early to bed Interval training

5-6 low calorie meals a day

64 oz of water

7-8 hours of sleep

Early to bed

Interval training

Tips for Physical Energy Green tea instead of coffee Water instead of soda Fruit instead of candy Nuts and raisins instead of chips Stairs instead of elevator

Green tea instead of coffee

Water instead of soda

Fruit instead of candy

Nuts and raisins instead of chips

Stairs instead of elevator

How Is Your Intellectual Energy? Do You… Become sidetracked easily? Lose concentration? Misplace things? Experience failures of short-term memory? Feel you are not making progress? See declining analytical skills? Have difficulty organizing your work schedule? Procrastinate? Source: Strengthening Your Work Skills

Do You…

Become sidetracked easily?

Lose concentration?

Misplace things?

Experience failures of short-term memory?

Feel you are not making progress?

See declining analytical skills?

Have difficulty organizing your work schedule?

Procrastinate?

Intellectual Energy Sinks Avoiding negative outcomes vs seeking positive results The Universal Donor Inadequate planning Unclear or conflicting objectives Inadequate support Poor stress management skills Source: Strengthening Your Work Skills

Avoiding negative outcomes vs seeking positive results

The Universal Donor

Inadequate planning

Unclear or conflicting objectives

Inadequate support

Poor stress management skills

Source: Strengthening Your Work Skills

Intellectual: Focus and Realism Organizes our lives Realistic optimism Mental muscles: Preparation Creativity Visualization Self-talk

Organizes our lives

Realistic optimism

Mental muscles:

Preparation

Creativity

Visualization

Self-talk

Write Down Your Loops! Get a life! Get a new house! Get milk! Get published! Get tires!

Get a life!

Get a new house!

Get milk!

Get published!

Get tires!

What is Your Story? Work Family Health Happiness Friendships Source: The Power of Story

Work

Family

Health

Happiness

Friendships

Emotional: Threat or Challenge?

Emotional Energy Sinks Feeling overwhelmed by the task at hand Negative management or communication styles Negative thinking Negative personal matters Negative persons -- Source: Strengthening Your Work Skills

Feeling overwhelmed by the task at hand

Negative management or communication styles

Negative thinking

Negative personal matters

Negative persons

-- Source: Strengthening Your Work Skills

Emotional “Muscles” Patience Empathy Confidence Activities Enjoyable Fulfilling Renewing

Patience

Empathy

Confidence

Activities

Enjoyable

Fulfilling

Renewing

Energy Vampires vs. MFRP

The Real Speed of Trust

Spiritual: Having A “Why?” Fuels passion, endurance, commitment Character: courage, commitment to live by deepest values Purpose

Fuels passion, endurance, commitment

Character: courage, commitment to live by deepest values

Purpose

Spiritual Energy Sinks Lack of motivation Lack of commitment No sense of direction No “deeper purpose” -- Source: Power of Full Engagement

Lack of motivation

Lack of commitment

No sense of direction

No “deeper purpose”

-- Source: Power of Full Engagement

The Power of Purpose Intrinsic over extrinsic “ Is the life I am living worth what I am giving up to have it?” Occupational suicide: seekers vs. avoiders What are your values? What is your mission?

Intrinsic over extrinsic

“ Is the life I am living worth what I am giving up to have it?”

Occupational suicide: seekers vs. avoiders

What are your values?

What is your mission?

Thank you! Greg Conderacci Good Ground Consulting LLC [email_address] 443 756 8213

Bibliography The Power of Full Engagement – Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz Strengthening Your Work Skills Through Personal Energy Management – Mark Berman The 10-Minute Energy Solution – Jon Gordon The Power of Story – Jim Loehr Energy Source Book – Jill Henry Ultra Marathon Man – Dean Karnazes The Answer to How is Yes – Peter Block What Matters Most – Hyrum Smith Joy at Work – Dennis Bakke Winning Every Day – Lou Holtz In the Zone – J. Mitchell Perry

The Power of Full Engagement – Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

Strengthening Your Work Skills Through Personal Energy Management – Mark Berman

The 10-Minute Energy Solution – Jon Gordon

The Power of Story – Jim Loehr

Energy Source Book – Jill Henry

Ultra Marathon Man – Dean Karnazes

The Answer to How is Yes – Peter Block

What Matters Most – Hyrum Smith

Joy at Work – Dennis Bakke

Winning Every Day – Lou Holtz

In the Zone – J. Mitchell Perry

Bibliography (Continued) Shakelton’s Way – Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell Deep Survival – Laurence Gonzales The Purpose Driven Life – Rick Warren Sabbath, Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest – Wayne Muller Deep Change – Robert Quinn The Path of Least Resistance – Robert Fritz Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Resources to Overloaded Lives – Richard Swenson Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman

Shakelton’s Way – Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell

Deep Survival – Laurence Gonzales

The Purpose Driven Life – Rick Warren

Sabbath, Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest – Wayne Muller

Deep Change – Robert Quinn

The Path of Least Resistance – Robert Fritz

Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Resources to Overloaded Lives – Richard Swenson

Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman