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The Energizer Blog


Five FAST Energy Fixes for YOUR Body
While the debate goes on about energy companies and the EPA, let’s get personal about our own energy consumption.

Eileen McDargh
Mar 20, 20172 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


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


BACK to the Present - Creativity Stoked
Spend 10 days canoeing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area (BWCWA) and you learn the root of vacation...

Eileen McDargh
Nov 14, 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


Beyond Four Walls—Outer Living for Inner Life
In our frantic, 24/7 world we often become consumed with our work. We border our lives by the four walls of an office, a home...

Eileen McDargh
Aug 29, 20161 min read


High Sierra Pause; Insights for Tough Times
Just returned from a week above 10,500 feet: sleeping under the stars and clouds, battling mosquitoes and temps down to 25 degrees at night,

Eileen McDargh
Aug 8, 20162 min read


The Resilient Investor - It’s More than Wall Street
If investing is only about money in the bank or in Wall Street, you are short-changing yourself about building a better life and world.

Eileen McDargh
Jul 18, 20162 min read


3 Tips to Make Your Business More Efficient
What's the correlation between efficiency and resiliency: ENERGY.

Eileen McDargh
Jun 27, 20162 min read


American Work Ethic Might be Unethical
Studies have found that while most Americans would choose more vacation time over a higher salary, the reality is that we don't...

Eileen McDargh
Jun 17, 20161 min read


Five Leadership Lessons from the Garden
The flowers that are in full bloom are wonderful. The weeds that have taken over one corner are terrible.

Eileen McDargh
May 2, 20163 min read


How to Make Sure You Are Never Hired to Speak Again
Want to make a meeting planner crazy and ensure that your name will be next to a notation that says “never again”?

Eileen McDargh
Feb 22, 20162 min read


A Bad Workplace Experience Is Never Forgotten
I was once an employee who quit and stayed. As I tell my story, listen to manager behaviors. What would you have done as an employee?

Eileen McDargh
Nov 30, 20151 min read


Guest Post: Why Purpose Helps Build Employees’ Resiliency
Conservative estimates predict we spend 1/3 of our life working. Yet for many people the work experience is a negative one.

Eileen McDargh
Nov 10, 20153 min read


Five Tips To Create A Resilient Workforce
I am leaving tomorrow to deliver an address at a major college on the East Coast.

Eileen McDargh
Nov 2, 20152 min read


Guest Post: Resilient Employee Engagement Begins with On-boarding!
The day always comes. The one you don't want. When your great team member leaves for 'greener' pastures.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 27, 20152 min read


Guest Post: Build a more resilient career through networking
Networking is something that's often undervalued and overlooked. Networks tend to grow organically through education or through work.

Eileen McDargh
Oct 26, 20154 min read


Blessed are the Flexible - They Shall Never be Bent out of Shape
Little did I know I would have the opportunity to practice that mantra at my last presentation.

Eileen McDargh
Sep 21, 20152 min read


Grateful for Actionable Wisdom, Few Words and Profound Leadership Insights
I am so grateful for all the authors who toil over their words to offer up everything from imaginative stories to lessons for work and life.

Eileen McDargh
Nov 26, 20141 min read
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