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Tips 4 Tuesday #8: Adapting to Change: Manage Personal and Team Energy
Change is constant, but the way we lead through it isn’t always effective.
At Daneli, we see it over and over: Teams aren’t resisting change…they’re exhausted by it.
The leaders who manage energy, not just tasks, are the ones who move their people through change with resilience, clarity, and momentum.
Today’s Tips4Tuesday gives you 4 strategies to manage personal and team energy through change, the Daneli way.
Not all hours (or people) are created equal when it comes to energy.
If you ignore natural energy highs and lows, you burn people out faster.
When I was writing my book the best advice I got was to do the composing part early in the AM, when my natural energy is highest. Then leave the editing and researching to later parts of the day when my energy is lower. It worked. I was able to deliver the manuscript to McGraw Hill in 90 days.
If you want peak performance, align your work to the energy, not just the calendar.
During change, your energy becomes your culture’s emotional thermostat.
Teams take their cue from you. If you’re frantic, scattered, or negative — they will be frantic, scattered, and negative.
One remarkable leader we work with at C&D Advertising uses Faith to center herself. Jen Brillante leads a vibrant growing advertising business while raising a family and volunteering her limited time for community events. She’s grounded. When the wheel of life spins fast she stays grounded in the center.
Be the calm in the storm. Leaders who manage their inner state create outer stability.
Change management isn’t just strategy; it’s stamina.
Even high performers will falter if you don’t watch their load and give them space to breathe.
Ryan Miller, owner of this lovely studio I’m working in today, balances the demands of entrepreneurial life, managing the Thincubator and raising his family by building time into his schedule for himself – deliberately. He long ago realized burning the candle at both ends does no one in his world any good. Most importantly himself.
Protect your team’s pulse. You can’t energize a team and lead them boldly into the future if you are a drained leader.
People don’t need guarantees. They need a role in shaping what comes next.
Energy rises when people move from uncertainty to involvement.
One of our businesses is a café where we tasked one of our friends to help us stand it up. Raechel Frink did just that and then did the same for our first UPS retail store. Now she is a key lead for six of them as one of the most respected UPS retail store managers in central NY.
Want to shift energy? Shift people from observers to participants. Give them skin in the game.
You want the TRUTH? Change doesn’t break people, poor energy management does.
Ask your team:
“What’s one thing that’s draining your energy and one thing that’s replenishing it?”
Then listen. Adjust. And lead forward.
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