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Improve Your Energy and Transform Workplaces with Rebecca Ahmed

Your Working Life with Caroline Dowd-Higgins

Release Date: 05/13/2024

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Rebecca Ahmed is an award-winning speaker, business consultant, and an Energy Leadership IndexTM Master Practitioner (ELI-MP). She is also a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Rebecca advises companies of all sizes on how to create a motivational workplace culture by transforming the energy and enthusiasm of their teams. Her new book is, The Energy of Success: Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation (Wiley, April 23, 2024). Learn more at energeticimpact.com.

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Breaking Free of Destructive Energy towards Work

This segment is about how to feel inspired and motivated about work rather than defeated and frustrated.

The Big Idea: Legions of workers consider their work monotonous or meaningless, and are just punching the clock. It’s no wonder that organizations are having a hard time attracting and retaining Gen Z workers. The most recent State of the Global Workforce Report found that less than one-quarter of the U.S. workforce is engaged at work. Lack of motivation leads to a loss of productivity and is reported to cost the economy over $8.1 trillion globally. Traditional methods to engage workers clearly aren’t working. But a NEW approach that looks at workplace engagement from an energetic perspective will not only enhance current employees at work, but will attract future talent and decrease turnover.

The So-What: Within the spectrum of workers’ positive to negative energy levels, the effects are directly associated with constructive and destructive attitudes. Destructive energy derives from stress or having a victim mentality. Constructive energy fuels growth, motivation, and fulfillment. The energy and vigor workers bring to their job directly correlates with their engagement and performance in their role. Whatever the situation, one’s connection with work is similar to one’s personal relationships — both require energy to keep the relationship exciting and stimulating. Everyone has the ability to employ specific energetic principles that will enable them to take back their power and remake their work into something that inspires and motivates them.

Key Messages: Rebecca Ahmed draws from an extensive career in People Services (HR) to reveal the practical steps that improve energy and transform workplaces. She addresses:

·      How to create energetic shifts that increase your own energy, as well as the energy of those around you

·      How to leverage five energetic success principles to propel you into higher levels of energy

·      How to shift your employees' focus from dwelling on challenges to innovating and communicating solutions

·      How to help your company attract and retain the talent that will catapult you into the future

·      Where to complete an assessment of your own, your team’s, or your organization’s energy level

The Source: Rebecca Ahmed is an award-winning speaker, a business consultant, and an Energy Leadership IndexTM Master Practitioner (ELI-MP). She is also a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Rebecca advises companies of all sizes on how to create a motivational workplace culture by transforming the energy and enthusiasm of their teams. Her new book is, The Energy of Success: Power Up Your Productivity, Transform Your Habits, and Maximize Workplace Motivation (Wiley, April 23, 2024). Learn more at energeticimpact.com.