48 - Giving Toxic Workplaces the Boot

Doing (good) Business

Sure, you probably understand that your energy impacts the people around you, but have you ever thought about the energy of your organization? Kelly and Lara explain what organizational energy even is, and lead you through an exercise showing you how to impact 6 toxic workplace energies! Join us for a little bit of geeking out and some real time expertise. While we hope you’re not experiencing all of these, our bet is that at least 1 or 2 of these scenarios will resonate.

Most important? Lara believes that Self leadership has to come first - managing your own energy as a leader is the most impactful thing you can do to manage or shift your organization’s energy.

Get an organizational energy boost with:

• Kelly recommends the book: Fully Charged: How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization's Energy and Ignite High Performance (2011) by by Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel - In the book the authors have provided a diagnostic questionnaire you can use to assess the current level of energy. (You can you can get a glimpse of it here.)
• Ideas for Leaders article on Organizational Energy (including the 4 types of Organizational Energy mentioned at the start of the episode)

Companies mentioned in this episode: Workzone, Push10

Check out our next episode featuring our March guest is Lisa Sordilla, VP HR at Energage - a company that exists to measure and impact organization energy!