Book Review on
Energy Leadership
- Bruce D Schneider
Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core , by Bruce D Schneider, is a valuable resource for people interested in Leadership Coaching.
In Energy Leadership, renowned coach Bruce D Schneider teaches how to understand the most important personal resource of all—energy and shows how to harness it to achieve success in the workplace, the home, and in the world at large.
The fact that the leadership model is presented through an engaging and fast-paced story on how managers and leaders from all walks of life can use the principles of Energy Leadership to inspire themselves and others to achieve extraordinary outcomes towards their goals. It also provides lots of insights into a cutting-edge coaching process developed by Schneider, which has positively impacted many lives across both public & private sectors.
Readers will learn how to:
Recognize the seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the workplace.
LEVEL 1 CORE FEELING: APATHY
Catabolic energy is found in Level 1 and displayed with the following characteristics or actions:
Self-doubt
Guilt
Low self-esteem
Victim mentality to events, thoughts, beliefs and emotions
Indifference
Philosophy: “I lose”
LEVEL 2 CORE FEELING: ANGER
Catabolic energy is found in Level 2 and displayed with the following characteristics or actions:
Judgment
Struggle or conflict
Black and white thinking
Action: Defiance, Resistance, Rebellion
Philosophy: “You lose”
LEVEL 3 CORE FEELING: RESPONSIBILITY
Anabolic energy is found in Level 3 and displayed with the following characteristics or actions:
Forgiveness
Letting go of resentment or anger
Accountability
Action: Cooperation
Philosophy: “I win, and hopefully you win too”
LEVEL 4 CORE FEELING: COMPASSION OR SYMPATHY
Anabolic energy is found in Level 4 and displayed with the following characteristics or actions:
Concern for others
Warmth
Empathy
Tenderness
Action: Care for others
Philosophy: "You Win"
LEVEL 5 CORE FEELING: HARMONY
Anabolic energy is found in Level 5 and displayed with the following characteristics or actions:
Non-Judgment
Contentment or peace
Action: Reconciliation
Philosophy: “We all win or
nobody wins”
LEVEL 6 CORE FEELING: ABSOLUTE JOY
Anabolic energy is found in Level 6 and displayed with the following characteristics and actions:
Wisdom
Enlightenment
Higher Coach
Intuition
Philosophy: “We always win”
LEVEL 7 CORE FEELING: NONJUDGMENT
Anabolic energy is found in Level 7 and displayed with the following characteristics and actions:
Absolute Passion
Total bliss for any and all experiences
Action: Genius Thinking
Philosophy: “Winning and losing are illusions”
Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire peak performance.
Become powerful leaders who motivate themselves and others to reach their true potential.
Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and strategies for overcoming these and other obstacles to success.
Energy Block 1: Limiting Beliefs
Energy Block 2: Assumptions
Energy Block 3: Interpretations
Energy Block 4: Gremlins
Be aware of & develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenges, and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence, and loyalty in others.
If you are the one who aspires to inspire others but feel like something’s missing, Energy Leadership brings awareness with the missing link between your ambitions and your ability to achieve them.
How to use Energy Leadership in Coaching??
Discovery : Any coaching session with a client starts with identifying what coachee’ s current state is and it is no different in this case. If you are planning to use Energy Leadership model for your coachee, it is important to identify what his/her current energy state is. This could be done through the assessment using the 7 levels of leadership model, what the client associates his/her core feeling with.
Define: Once discovery is complete and client is made aware of his/her current state, the next step is to define his/her target state and the outcomes he/she expects to achieve by reaching the target state. Explore with the client on how would he/she respond to different situations, different people when he/she moves to the target energy state?
Partner: Work with the client to explore the various energy levels he/she needs to transcend and his/her responses at different energy levels. Partner with him/her so he/she reflects on his/her behaviours and identifies the energy levels he/she is at each of the sessions as you go through and continuously validate if the energy level he/she is targeting helps him/her get to his/her goals or if any course correction is needed.
Practice: Ensure Coachee is practicing the responses/behaviours based on the energy level he is looking to transcend to and is exhibiting progress towards his/her intermediate goals aligned to long term goals. Validate his commitment to practice moving up the energy levels and accomplishing the goals / outcomes defined by the coachee when he moves to those levels.
Author's Bio:
Bruce D Schneider is the founder of the world renowned iPEC Coach Training School, and the author of the newly released Energy Leadership: Transforming Your Workplace and Your Life from the Core, and Relax, You're Already Perfect. He is the innovator of a ground-breaking theory of consciousness levels, the much-talked-about Energy Leadership Index assessment, and the creator of the transformational Core Energy Coaching Process (TM).
