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The Energizer Blog


From Pain to Profit: Resiliency Lessons for Sales
Good old Webster defines sales as “the exchange of goods, services, or property for money.”

Eileen McDargh
Feb 5, 20181 min read


How to Craft a Key Retention Strategy: Mentoring
Recruitment of talent is one issue. But the retention of talent looms as an ever-larger concern....

Eileen McDargh
Jan 22, 20181 min read


Dump The Dictionary and Learn The True Meaning Of Resiliency
Resilience is a way of walking though life. As I explored the wisdom we all get in hindsight...

Eileen McDargh
Jan 15, 20181 min read


THE ENERGIZING MOMENT: Part 10: Humor and Disasters - How to develop a Humor Muscle.
What fires together, wires together. That’s the neurological explanation for creating new brain patterns.

Eileen McDargh
Jan 1, 20181 min read


THE ENERGIZING MOMENT: Part 9: Humor and Disasters - Help or Hindrance?
Join me as I ask my colleague in The Resiliency Group, Karyn Buxman, if it is fact or fiction that humor can help us...

Eileen McDargh
Dec 17, 20171 min read


When You’ve Lost The Deal
You’ve spent days and weeks preparing for this opportunity. You’ve enlisted colleagues to give you advice.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 2, 20172 min read


What happens when you move from Bud to Boss?
Resilient managers know that growing through challenges as well as opportunities is a great career move.

Eileen McDargh
Sep 25, 20171 min read


Seven Secrets Move Workouts into the Workplace
“Where do you get all your energy?” That’s a question many of us are asked...

Eileen McDargh
Sep 4, 20171 min read


Resilient Employees Start with Right Recruiting
My mother always said, “To end well, you must begin well.”

Eileen McDargh
Aug 7, 20173 min read


Radical Resiliency Meets Radical Hope
Radical Resiliency is the term I coined to redefine “resiliency” as something that–for humans–is far different from the notion...

Eileen McDargh
Jul 31, 20172 min read


Why You Need a Community
Despite freezing meetings rooms, Florida storms, humidity, and sleeping rooms that refused to cool off, I am so grateful I went.Why?

Eileen McDargh
Jul 24, 20172 min read


Resiliency: An Equal Opportunity Resource
Do any of these sound like you: Your organization has been downsized, “right-sized,” capsized.

Eileen McDargh
Jun 26, 20171 min read


Resiliency is Option B
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant have sparked many conversations and insights with the publication of their book...

Eileen McDargh
May 2, 20172 min read


When Is Crying A Good Thing?
You might wonder how crying can have any relationship to resiliency?

Eileen McDargh
May 1, 20174 min read


Resiliency Skills for Today’s Sales Professional
The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm.

Eileen McDargh
Mar 21, 20174 min read


How to De-Energize a Customer
"IT” starts in Gary, Indiana at US Steel’s immense integrated mill (the largest of its kind in the Northern Hemisphere).

Eileen McDargh
Mar 6, 20172 min read


Guest Post - Leadership Sunshine and Shadows
There’s been a lot written about “strength-based” development approaches in recent years.

Eileen McDargh
Jan 16, 20172 min read


Kitchen Friends Inspire Others: A Leadership Lesson in Love
Dear Readers, The following story was sent to me by Justin Pickering, President of Blaine González, a global firm that translates...

Eileen McDargh
Jan 9, 20175 min read


Leaders... Don't Make These Mistakes
Leadership means different things to different people and different things in different situations.

Eileen McDargh
Sep 5, 20163 min read


Leaders can build resiliency in others
Leaders are responsible to lead themselves and others while doing the often over-whelming job of managing a business.

Eileen McDargh
Jul 25, 20161 min read
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