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The Energizer Blog


Retirement card messages offer clues of great leadership.
Face it: when somebody leaves for good, there's no reason to "butter up" the boss.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 17, 20142 min read


Five Steps for Turning the Tables on the Boss and Turning the Light on You!
National Boss’s Day is October 16th, an international holiday established in 1958 by a secretary for State Farm Insurance Company.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 17, 20144 min read


Hey Leaders! Forget motivation. Go for inspiration.
The most recent copy of Spirituality & Health Magazine contained a right-on-the-money article by Lance Secretan.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 11, 20142 min read


Perfection is the enemy of resiliency.
This week, Bill Treasurer’s new book, Leaders Open Doors, hits the stores. He kindly provided the following post for me.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 8, 20143 min read


The Law of Diminished Returns Kills Productivity, Profits, and Tragically - Sometimes People
In a recent Bloomberg article, “Vacation-Phobic Americans Donate a Million Years of Work Annually,”...

Eileen McDargh
Jul 14, 20142 min read


What would you do it you lost the “tools” of your trade?
As a speaker, facilitator, consultant, I am very much a public person. My stock in trade is talking before others - sometimes thousands.

Eileen McDargh
May 26, 20142 min read


Presiliency: Preventative Resiliency
Three skills we need to constantly hone and develop now before they are “needed”.

Eileen McDargh
May 16, 20143 min read
Were "Soft Skills" Needed for NY Times editor Abramson?
Journalistic skill was not lacking according to USA TODAY ‘s reported dismissal of Jill Abramson’s as editor of the NY TIMES.

Eileen McDargh
May 15, 20141 min read
Sixth Century Wisdom for 21st Century Changemasters
Despite a strong U.S. economy, unsettled change continues to bombard us. Mega-mergers boggle the mind with the endless zeros,,,

Eileen McDargh
May 6, 20143 min read


Work/Life Balance Tips for the Business Traveler
Balance and the business traveler has everything to do with staying “connected”.

Eileen McDargh
Apr 5, 20144 min read
Work Is A Four-Letter Word
I can hear the jokes already and most of them are not politically correct.

Eileen McDargh
Mar 29, 20144 min read


Getting In Control
In a world where “too much to do and too little time” is a common mantra, there’s a sense that everyone and everything...

Eileen McDargh
Mar 22, 20143 min read


Five Reasons Panels At Meetings FAIL
Some of the key findings from a recent survey on panels by colleague and fellow facilitator Kristin Arnold...

Eileen McDargh
Mar 22, 20142 min read
Taming The Technostress
Last week, my big desktop PC crashed, my laptop got the “blue screen: of death”. The

Eileen McDargh
Feb 8, 20142 min read
Who Stands At Your Finish Line?
Seth Godin recently wrote a great blog that added another dimension to resiliency: your pit crew.

Eileen McDargh
Jan 31, 20142 min read
7 Sure Fire Ways to Generate Trust as a Leader
If you want to keep a workforce engaged and inspired in times of change, if you want a RESILIENT team, then developing trust is a must!

Eileen McDargh
Jan 3, 20142 min read
Lessons In Leadership: What NOT to Do from A Canoe!
His lack of leadership skills offered wonderful lessons on how leaders can unknowingly screw up.

Eileen McDargh
Jan 2, 20143 min read
Top Five Mistakes Leaders Make in These Troubled Times
Even Joe the Pipefitter must look askance at some of the moves made in corporate America when faced with a string of bad news.

Eileen McDargh
Dec 27, 20134 min read
Workout Wisdom for the Workplace
The dictionary defines workout as a “physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something.”

Eileen McDargh
Nov 27, 20133 min read
Trust Withheld; Micromanagement Unveiled
Micromanagement and lack of trust are cries often heard in today’s business arenas.

Eileen McDargh
Nov 4, 20134 min read
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