This is the second in a series of 3 posts on human energy management at work. In the first post in this series you were invited to take your personal energy audit to get an overview of your energy patterns for 2 days. What patterns did you discover? Did you find you were experiencing high vitality at certain times and flagging at others? If you were feeling energized, what were you doing? And if you were feeling tired what did you do to counter that? Managing our energy source is vital, because when it is depleted, we become less effective at…
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“It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing”
This is the first in a series of 3 posts on human energy management at work. Louis Armstrong famously sang: “What good is melody? What good is music if it ain’t possessing something sweet? Now it ain’t the melody, and it ain’t the music. There’s something else that makes this tune complete. Yes! It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!” Energy. It is that swing. When we’ve got it, we know it! We’ve got more ‘get-up-and-go’. Our tasks are performed with more zest. Our interactions with others are more effervescent. We just feel…
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