Light up your network. Manage your energy, not time

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Light Up Your Network: Manage Energy, Not TimePresenter: Pat Drew


Executive Coaching, Career Management, Team Alignment

• Helping individuals and organizations going through change and turmoil to maintain top performance and meet their goals

• Twenty years working with New York Times journalists in war zones to be at the top of their game

• Executive coach at Columbia Business School

• Career management: assist executives in goal and strategy development to get what they want

About Pat Drew


• Managing Energy: Physically

• Connecting to your inner passion and skills

• Re-calibrating your goal

• Re-vitalizing your network

Agenda – Managing Energy


Am I physically and mentally ready?

Eating healthy, especially breakfast• Strong• On target• Needs improvement

Regularly following cardiovascular and strength training• Strong• On target• Needs improvement

Getting sufficient sleep each night (7-9 hours)• Strong• On target• Needs improvement

Self Management Quiz


Managing Energy

Managing Energy: Re-energize yourself

• Physical. Cycles of energy.

• Mental. Positive self-talk, effective time management, creativity.

• Emotional. Positive vs negative emotions.

• Meaning and purpose.


Managing Energy, Not Time

• Issue of time: treating it as if it is limited. It is us who places the limits on it.

• When we seize time as our own, it is limitless….it is totally within our control…we have made it up in the first place….we can have it be any way we want…it is about being intentional

Managing Energy


Managing Energy, Not Time

• Time management is out.• Time is not something to be managed. • It is something we create.• It is totally under our control

Manage Energy

• We control how we manage our energy

Managing Energy


Physical

• Recent research: we work best in 90 minute segments• If we switch from left brain to right brain activities, it

has a renewing effect upon us.

• How many of us know this, but don’t do this?

Managing Energy


Disengagement is the key

Managing Energy


Positive self talk

We are free to create our future…power of intention…look at the number of self doubting statements we make every day.

Mental/Emotional


How we limit ourselves

“I need to make money. I don’t have the luxury of doing what I love.”

“I can’t change careers now. I’m not qualified to do anything else.”

“The only way to make a real difference in the world is to work for a nonprofit – and they don’t pay nearly enough.”

“It isn’t possible to have a life and a career if you want to make any real money.”

Mental/Emotional


Perceptions we have based on limited knowledge which we then

generalize to larger events in our lives

By definition, we take one situation that did not turn out the way

we would have liked and we generalize to all situations.

Core Limiting Beliefs


Validate

Check them out

Maybe they are true maybe not

Core Limiting Beliefs


Resilience

THE TRADITIONAL STRESS MODEL

INTERVENE HERE

OUTCOMESTRESSSTRESSOR


The Stress-Resilience Model

Resilience

High

Low

Coping

Transformational

Regressive

Outcome

Wellness

Wellness

Breakdown

InterveneHere

Stressor

Stress

Low

High


• Commitment – active involvement rather than withdrawal

• Control – personal effort can significantly influence the course of events

• Challenge – stressful events are opportunities for learning

• Meaning – adversity and stress are prime occasions for making meaning

Attitudes Towards Adversity:

Resilience


• Flexible sense of self – ability to admit mistakes and what you don’t know

• Acknowledge the impact of stressful events and the feelings involved

• Tolerate painful feelings

• Manage disruptive emotions – block the emotional spiral of anxiety, fear, and panic

Self-Regulation:

Resilience


• Recognize you are having a reaction

• What are the thinking patterns that are contributing to the problem?

• What is the thinking that helps?

• Transformational coping is fueled by our thoughts

Disruptive Emotions:

Resilience


• Seek social support• Creative problem solving

• Understand circumstances fully and deeply• Put them in broader perspective• See the problem in a new light• Focus on positive aspects of the situation• Generate possible solutions

• Take decisive action

Transformational Coping:

Resilience


Valuesauthenticity

commitment

compassion

courage

creativity

empathy

excellence

fairness

faith

family

freedom

friendship

generosity

genuineness

happiness

harmony

health

honesty

Humor

integrity

kindness

knowledge

loyalty

openness

perseverance

respect for others

responsibility

security

serenity

service to others


Managing Energy – Meaning & Purpose

Connect to your inner passion

Do an inventory

Talk this out with someone.

Create a statement of who you are


About You

Reality

The person you are

is not

the same person that you were


Clarify Your Need: Goal


Reconnect with yourself

• Personal Inventory

• Define The Meaning

• What is Your Professional Identity?

• How Will You Communicate Your Identity?

Your Identity


What is it you want?

• If you can visualize it, you can have it

• Clarity around what you want to do

• Craft your elevator pitch

• Linked In

Managing Energy – Set Your Goal


“Networking”

Building relationships for the purpose of sharing resources for mutual benefit

Revitalize Your Network


Network

• Bridge conversation

• Create your circle of support

• Create a buddy system

• Creating a new network for the “new you”

Revitalize Your Network


1.”I have long term relationships; they will help me.”

Tip: It is not the people you know, it’s the people you don’t know (cold contacts/warm contacts).

Barriers to Networking

2. “It takes too much time. I need a new position.”

Tip: What is the most common route to find a new position?

3. “I am not the sociable type.”

Tip: Practice, practice, practice.

4. “I don’t need to; I have a hundred resumes out.”

Tip: Avoid leading with your resume.


Barriers to Networking5. “I need to spend time looking up jobs on line.”

Tip: it’s not about filling a job, it’s about filling a need.

6. “Networking is self promoting; that is what makes me uncomfortable”

Tip : the world is filled with people and organizations looking for exactly the skill set you have; how are they going to know about you unless you unabashedly tell them who you are and your value?7. “Networking is self promoting; that is what makes me uncomfortable”

• “Advertise” Your Value!

• You may have to put aside EVERYTHING you’veever been taught about NOT BLOWING YOUR OWN HORN


Five Skills for Successful Networking

• Clarify who you are, what is special about you

• Be clear about what you are seeking/ need

• Find out the other’s needs

• Give back

• Follow up

Skills for Successful Networking


You need to “advertise” the value you offer to the people and

organizations who are “out shopping” for the strengths, values,

talents, ideals, passions and experience that you

(and only you) possess.

Networking Skills: Clarify Your Need


Find Out the Other’s Needs

Active Listening

Questions to ask:

• What is your biggest challenge?

• What are the needs of the organization?

Networking Skills: Discover Others Needs


The laws around successful giving/successful receiving

“This has been helpful to me.

Thank you. What can I do for you?”

One of the most effective ways to be remembered.

Giving Back


Manage Energy Not Time

• Manage your energy: physically, your thoughts, your

attitude

• When you are energized, inspired, engaged, you light up

others

• Practice resilience

• You have changed: Renew your self assessment and goals

• Re-engage your network: enroll and request

• Give back: gratitude

• Envision your future and you will create it

Light Up Your Network


Pat DrewExecutive Coaching, Career Management, Team Alignment

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.patdrew.org

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