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Managing Energy

Perform at your best without running on empty

Infographic titled 'What is the reality?' showing statistics on energy and tiredness: 2 in 3 people say they get less sleep than a few years ago, 1 in 5 suffer from lack of sleep, 3 out of 4 wake up tired each day, almost 1 in 3 have unhealthy cholesterol levels, 4 out of 5 do not exercise at healthy levels, and 1 in 4 say the weekend was ruined by dread of returning to work on Monday.

Most leaders we work with aren’t short of drive or commitment. What they’re short of is energy, the kind that lets you show up fully, think clearly and lead well, day after day.


Long hours, relentless demands and a culture that seems to reward busyness over effectiveness take a real toll. Not dramatically and not all at once, but gradually in the quality of decisions, the patience available for the people around you and the capacity to think beyond the next deadline.


Managing Energy is a practical, evidence-informed course that helps you understand where your energy comes from, what depletes it and how to build the habits that sustain your performance over the long term. 

The four pillars of energy

Energy isn’t a single resource you either have or don’t. It draws from four interconnected sources, each one shaping how you perform and how you feel, each one influencing the others.

 

The course works through each pillar in turn, building a picture of where your energy is well-managed and where there’s room to do things differently. 

Illustration of the four interconnected pillars of energy, sustain your body, engage your emotions, stimulate your mind and align your purpose, shown as four coloured oval icons, with text noting they correlate strongly with performance.

Sustain your body

Icons illustrating the sustain your body energy pillar: getting sufficient sleep, being fit and having stamina, keeping yourself nourished and hydrated, and making time for rest and recovery.

Physical energy is the foundation the other three pillars rest on. This section looks honestly at sleep, movement, nutrition and recovery.

 

Not as a checklist but as an opportunity to understand what’s actually affecting your energy levels and what small, sustainable changes might make a real difference.

Engage your emotions

Emotional energy shapes how we lead, how we relate to the people around us and how we respond when things get hard.

 

This pillar explores what it means to feel connected, valued and resilient at work and what gets in the way of that, often without us noticing.

Icons illustrating the engage your emotions energy pillar: feeling valued, looking after your well-being, understanding and managing your emotions, and having a connection to others.

Stimulate your mind

Icons illustrating the stimulate your mind energy pillar: putting your talents to effective use, doing what you enjoy, challenging your brain, and managing your time effectively.

Mental energy is what allows you to focus, prioritise and think with any kind of clarity.

 

This section is about understanding where your attention actually goes and whether the way you’re working is making the best use of the skills and thinking you bring.

Align your purpose

Purpose is often the last thing leaders make time for and one of the most sustaining when they do.

 

This pillar draws on Brené Brown's values work to help you get clear on what matters most to you and whether your day-to-day choices are reflecting that. 

Icons illustrating the align your purpose energy pillar: having meaning in your life, knowing and practising your values represented by Kindness and BLM banners, making use of your strengths, and doing what makes you feel good about yourself.

What’s included

Infographic titled 'To manage your energy, you need to...' listing four principles: Energies, draw on all four energy sources; Renewal, balance expenditure with intermittent recovery; Stretch, push beyond your normal limits then recover; and Habits, establish specific habits that become automatic over time. Includes a link to stickychange.com/managing-energy.

The course gives you lifetime access to all supporting resources so you can work through it at your own pace.

 

It includes:

  • six modules covering each of the four pillars and the principles of energy equilibrium

  • a digital editable workbook to support your reflection and action planning

  • a free personalised Energy Account report

What people say...

A helpful and insightful course with some great ideas to help manage the balance between work and home life, which is even more daunting during Covid. The course really helped me work on notions for motivation and improving my own and my team’s productivity with some great concepts and learnings to be had. I especially liked the activities and workbook and had some good thought-provoking content.

After finding that I am working 10+ hour days, and being less productive than in the previous 7 hour days, I found this course really helped me outline where I could make, sometimes very small changes for big impact.  The course covered everything from ideas to improve general sleep quality all the way up to challenging me to think about what I was doing on a daily basis that was neither important nor urgent but was taking up valuable time. Fantastic course I would recommend to anyone and I’ll definitely be looking out for more from Sticky Change.

Find Out More

If you’d like to explore Managing Energy, for yourself or with your team, we’d love to hear from you.

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