The Positive Energy Workplace

I'm in Tucson right now, writing this sitting pool side in some beautiful weather. It's gorgeous here right now, not too hot, just a light breeze - all good. I'm here for some meetings with colleagues, a client and my private master mind group. We get together about every 6 months to work on our businesses, flush out ideas, put strategies in place, etc. I've been a part of these types of groups since 2003 in one way or another and find the space that gets created as a group highly productive!

Right now in this economic and business climate we are inundated with information. Good information. Useless information. Hype. Not hype. Words of motivation. Words of dread. Words that inspire and make you want to make your business and life better than ever before. And words that may make you want to pull your covers over your head and "wait" until all this grief and recession stuff is over.

What to do with all this information overload? How can it help us? How can we move through it as effectively as possible? Two things come to mind (and course there are more!)

1) Check your mindset,

2) Get into - and stay -in action.

So let's do that here....

How do you keep your team engaged? How do you personally stay engaged? In your work? At home? In your personal life? In your fitness regime? It’s easy to “check out”…especially with so many competing demands. So how do you stay “fully engaged?”

I just got back from the Inc 500 Conference in Washington D.C. Quite an amazing group of people, great speakers, inspiring stories, lots of new friends. Tom Peters and Seth Godin got into a lively conversation “in the entrepreneurial mind.” Tim Ferris talked about getting it done, all done, in 4 hours a week. Jim Collins talked about level 5 leadership and making sure that you have the “right people” filling the “key seats” (do YOU?) Marilyn Carlson Nelson discussed how “how we lead matters”, and Paul Bennett talked about happiness being essential in creating successful engaged organizations (true true true!) All great and all good food for thought (and implementation – hint hint…) Many others who I’ll be referencing in upcoming posts, and those are the ones on my mind this a.m.