EMM – More than a Graphic
If you’ve been digging around in our book, Healing Leadership (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006R5PXA4), you’ve probably stumbled across the Energy Management Model (EMM) (http://healingleaders.com/eplmmap.aspx). At least we hope you have. The model is the central point of our thinking; that leadership is more about energy management than anything else. To repeat the point: Successful leadership has little or nothing to do with “best practices” or “techniques”. It has everything to do with presence in the system. The EMM is a kind of insight portal. It offers a way into and through a process of acquisition, use and replenishments of personal energy reserves. An important point is, leadership presence is least healthy when energy is depleted. And, ironically, that’s how we operate. We deplete our reserves nearly completely before it occurs to us, or we are forced, to resupply. This is backwards. We should be replenishing reserves continuously, or more continuously than merely coming home and collapsing in front of the TV or into bed.
The model pulls key thoughts together: Self-awareness, self-care, self-dare, understanding positions on emotional triangles, management of personal anxiety and the practice of self-defining presence.
At center is Spiritual Connectedness. It is the apex of presence where we practice connection to whatever higher state of consciousness we need and choose for our well being.
One of my all time favorite preachers, Richard Foss, a now-retired Bishop of the Lutheran Church often regularly said in his sermons, “I don’t know what you’re going through in your life, but I DO know THIS..”… Then, he spoke the truth of the faith as he understood it.
Pull the model. Print it. Carry it with you. It is your tool.
Peace and Courage,
Howard
