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The Energizer Blog


Stop Being a Martyr. Women—ASK for help!
Everyone expects something from you. Your boss wants that project on his desk on Friday. Your husband wants you to pick up the dry cleaning.

Eileen McDargh
Feb 26, 20201 min read


Five Tips for Holding Your Business and Yourself Together
Anyone in the audience when I have given my presentation, “Radical Resilience”, knows that I believe action is the antidote for anxiety.

Eileen McDargh
Feb 14, 20202 min read


What Does It Take To Succeed When Working from Home?
Colleagues looked at me with envy, expressing a desire to leave corporate life and “work from home”.

Eileen McDargh
Feb 13, 20203 min read


Ten Tips to Move Customer Service from Drab To Fab!
It happens all the time: A full-page ad is placed in a major monthly publication.

Eileen McDargh
Aug 8, 20183 min read


The Care & Feeding of Virtual Teams
The good news about technology is that teams can be spread throughout the world, offering a rich background for global enterprises.

Eileen McDargh
Apr 4, 20182 min read


Resilient Workers are Engaged Workers
The front cover of FORTUNE February 2018 blared this headline: “You’re Hired. Companies are fighting for Talent”.

Eileen McDargh
Mar 5, 20182 min read


Whose Job is Corporate Culture Anyway?
Those of you who follow my work know that I believe a resilient, sustainable organization needs to create a culture for achievement, growth.

Eileen McDargh
Feb 26, 20183 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


Surviving Long Hours and the Night Shift
Courtesy of our friends at Bradley University via Online Degrees we have an article and infographic about nurses working the late shift.

Eileen McDargh
Dec 18, 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


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


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 Turns Grief into Greatness
Today nurses in 2600-plus health care facilities, 50 states and 15 countries walk taller, prouder, and renewed in their work because of...

Eileen McDargh
Jul 17, 20171 min read


A Plus-Minus Look at Your Work Setting
Decades ago when I started my consulting practice, colleagues looked at me with envy, expressing a desire to leave corporate life.

Eileen McDargh
Feb 13, 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


Top Secret Weapon for Creating Connections
What can curve at the corners, droop in lopsided fashion, stretch to great extremes, crunch noses into cherries, crinkle eyes into almonds a

Eileen McDargh
Oct 10, 20162 min read


Typing Errors Turn Meaning into Mystery
I never learned to type. Who would have known that in today’s keyboard literate world, I am functionally illiterate.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 3, 20161 min read


Is Life Balance Possible?
Study the best seller lists of the past few years and you'll notice titles that range from...

Eileen McDargh
Sep 12, 20163 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
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