IEP Method® Immersion 2-Day Experience
Develop your Intentional Energetic Presence® and sustainably up-level your leadership presence, resiliency, and performance.
Learn, experience, and embody the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) through this immersion training specifically designed for leaders who are passionate about improving cultural health, operational efficiency, productivity, and innovation while driving growth and improving their overall performance.
Leaders will walk away with immediately-actionable steps to improve their leadership effectiveness and rapidly improve individual and team alignment, performance, collaboration, and communication.
The IEP Method Immersion Session is designed to create the maximum impact in an economical time frame. In this experiential session, you’ll dive into these questions and more:
- How does your personal IEP impact your performance, your team’s performance, and your company’s performance? (And why does it REALLY matter? So much nuance here, can’t wait to dig in!)
- What is the true cultural health of your company, and how is it impacting your innovation and results?
- How are you personally contributing to creating the experiences, relationships, results, and culture you have now?
- How do you hold a high vibrational energetic state when you are constantly bombarded by demands, negativity, people, and circumstances beyond your control?
- How do you create psychological safety AND accountability; balance well-being AND high-performance business results, and create space for grace AND innovation in a world that demands speed and quality?
- What’s your authentic plan for showing up as the leader (and leadership team) you want to be? One that will actually get you the results you want and keep YOU whole in the process?
IEP Method® Immersion
Fall 2024 SessionOctober 22nd and 23rd, 2024
In-Person training in Washington, D.C.
Location to be announced
BEST FOR
Leaders and Teams
FORMAT
Live, In-Person Session
DURATION
2-Day Training +
Optional Pre- and Post-Sessions
MODEL
Instructor Led by
ACI Faculty
SUPPORT
3 Months of Leadership Community All-Access Membership
Session Overview & Focus Areas
Day 1: Your Personal Intentional Energetic Presence®
On day one, we focus on your personal IEP and current level of self-care, impact, and resilience as a leader. You’ll experience the nuance of your leadership presence, how it impacts a room, and how you can adjust and refine it as necessary to achieve your intended impact.
With the core components of IEP and a deep dive into the “Essential You” to explore how your values, intentions, and presence impact each other, we’ll have a strong foundation for day two where we look at interactional, collaborative, and performance IEP.
Day 2: IEP and Your Culture, Collaboration, and Performance
On day 2, we focus on using IEP to create results via your leadership, relationships, and performance. We’ll dig into core skills necessary to build healthy dynamics, focused work, effective conflict navigation, clean agreements, and a culture that has psychological safety and joy, while also being able to navigate grit, stay committed, and focused on the right things that create impact.
Day two marries your personal IEP (which you can control) with others’ IEP (which you cannot control), giving you the energetic and actionable skills to influence and lead your teams, people, and clients.
Pre- and Post-Sessions (Optional)
To support your growth, action, and integration throughout the experience, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in optional virtual sessions before and after our time together in DC.
The pre-session is designed to get your IEP wheels turning and your intentions clear for how you’ll create optimal value within these two days. The post-session will support your integration, ensuring you are embodying the work and getting what you need. These sessions are conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who are unable to attend live.
IEP Method® Immersion Training Outcomes:
- Learn and integrate the IEP Method into your everyday life to build a strong energetic presence that will support you in your leadership role.
- Learn how to shift the energy in a room, inspire (and model) accountability, and navigate complex dynamics on your team in a way that creates — instead of breaks — psychological safety.
- Identify, address, and create your ROI plan for your team/organization’s positive impact based on the 7 factors of cultural and organizational health to become a Positive Energy Workplace.
- Build your resilience and adaptability to create space for more innovation and nimbleness as an individual and as a company.
- Create healthy agreements with yourself and others, give and receive productive feedback, and learn frameworks to design productive relationships proactively and to navigate conflict with grace and confidence.
- Learn how to be in a “productive relationship” with yourself and create accountability and ownership for yourself and others.
- Optimize your leadership presence and influence both in one-on-one, group, and front-of-the-room engagements.
- Become a better collaborator and communicator with those you lead and love, learn how to choose language that serves you, and how to be the author of your own story as a leader.
The IEP Method® Community Platform
The IEP Method Immersion Training includes 3 months of All-Access Membership in the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative® (PEW-i) Community, a private membership platform by Active Choices, Inc. for leaders and organizations devoted to developing leadership presence and positive workplace change.
In this space, you can easily access IEP Method resources, view your pre- and post-session details, and receive training reminders. Plus, you will also receive access in the platform to complete your IEP Method Credential as a Certified Positive Energy Leader and connect with your fellow training cohort members and other individuals in the community!
PEW-i Community Memberships can provide you and your organization with access to the IEP Method tools, resources, ACI Team support, and a network of peer organizations.
Hear More about the IEP Method® Training Experience
Hear how the in-person IEP Method® training experience creates immediate action for leaders who are ready for transformation:
Hear from program participants as they share about the personal and organizational impact of Intentional Energetic Presence® in their lives:
Two things today that are really going to stick with me beyond the anchoring of presence in my body, is that presence is impact. Everything that we bring to the world is impact through our conscious presence.
The IEP Method® Immersion Session Breakdown & Syllabus
Day 1 — Your Personal Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP): Optimizing YOU.
On the first day of the training, we’ll focus on your current level of self-care, impact, and resilience as a leader. You’ll learn how your current level of leadership presence is making an impact (or not!), and create space for you to dive deep into your own strengths and areas for growth as a leader.
Day one highlights include (prioritized as fits the needs of the group):
- Learn about Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) and the IEP Method®
- Complete an IEP Individual and Cultural Assessment to identify the gaps in your own IEP and how they’re impacting your leadership, your culture, your business results, and your life. (Done before the session.)
- Contagious Costs: Determine your contagiousness factor with the new “Contagion Factor Formula™” and also the cost of negative energy in your life and organization/team with the new IEP/ROI/Culture Cost Indicator.
- Identify the gaps in your leadership, relationships, and internal satisfaction that are being impacted by your IEP (and how you’re contributing positively or negatively to them).
- Learn and embody the basic Tenets of IEP and dive into the 4 core quadrants of the model so that you can “get in front of it” and integrate in real-time.
- Learn how to adjust your energy and presence instantaneously, so that you can tap into deeper wisdom and intuition, address what’s happening in the moment, create impact independent of your external environment, and intentionally influence others – no matter the circumstances.
- Work with your body and presence from the inside out so that you can create more intentional impact and feel good doing so.
- Build your “Energetic Equity”: Learn tools, practices and strategies for building a strong IEP “bank” that will allow you to navigate “busy”, “overwhelm”, and “discombobulation” more effectively setting a proactive vs. reactive tone.
- Unlock access to greater creativity, purpose, intuition, empathy, and intention. (The person with the strongest intention, purpose, and vibe “wins” – BE that person.)
- Learn how to hold your space, not match the “lowest vibration in the room,” and even shift your state and presence so they step up to “match” YOU.
- Identify and make decisions (or non-decisions) that are currently hindering your leadership (you likely don’t even know what these are yet) that will shift the way you relate, create impact, and experience internal peace in your decision-making, work, and relationships.
Fieldwork Guide — Distributed during the training
The IEP Method Immersion Fieldwork Guide includes a summary of the IEP Method tools you’ll learn during the training, plus resources to use and reference during and after the training session.
Day 2 — Your Organization’s IEP: Optimizing Your Team and Culture.
On day 2 of training, we’ll focus on your organization’s current health and potential growth areas. We’ll talk about the hard stuff, too — including issues that may or may not be talked about yet in your company and the impact it could be creating. You’ll also learn what it takes to create an authentically Positive Energy Workplace, and how to create psychological safety for your workforce and navigate difficult conversations (such as direct engagement and feedback).
Highlights for day two often include (depending on the needs of the group):
- Capture any remaining core learnings for you and your organization from day one that will support the foundation you will need for the true leadership and cultural development work that will be happening on day two.
- Review the IEP Model through the lens of your team or organization and how you’re set up for activating the energy of your workforce in the right direction (or not). Create three solid next steps to implement on Monday.
- Explore the updated “Culture Change List” which is the list of TO-DOs to support a healthy team and culture. These to-do’s are only as good as the IEP under them, so that’s why we set the foundation here on day one.
- Learn 3-4 new leadership and collaboration skills based on what will serve you and your group most to support your needs. (These are determined at the end of day one and designed for in day two. Examples of these skills are: conflict navigation and resolution, productive feedback, relationship and agreement design, accountability and drama management, team meeting optimization, effective performance reviews, design session debriefing, shifting the energy in a room, optimizing hiring practices, creative collaboration, toxicity purging, energetic hygiene optimization, and others.)
- Create structures to make this all real when you go back (these may include how to introduce this work and principles to your team, how to set up guardrails and structures to support cultural IEP, follow-up practices to keep the content alive, and more).
Pre-Training Executive Session
Virtual | Bonus — Optional to Attend
Prior to our in-person experience, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in an intention-setting group pre-work session (1 hour) to help set a solid foundation for your training so we can dive deep during our in-person time together. This session is conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who are unable to attend live.
Post-Training Executive Session
Virtual | Bonus — Optional to Attend
After our in-person training, you’ll have the opportunity to join us for an integration post-training group session (1 hour) to support your impact, accountability, and action after the training. This session is conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who are unable to attend live.
Access to the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative (PEW-i) Community Platform
You will receive 3-month complimentary access to the All-Access Membership in the PEW-i Community, a private platform by Active Choices, Inc. for organizations devoted to creating positive workplaces. In this space, you can easily access IEP Method resources, view your pre- and post-session details, and receive training reminders. Plus, you will also receive access in the platform to complete your IEP Method Credential as a Certified Positive Energy Leader and connect with your fellow training cohort members and other individuals in the community!
Session Training Team
ANESE CAVANAUGH
CEO + Strategic Advisor + Futurist
Founder of The IEP Method® and The Positive Energy Workplace Initiative®
Anese Cavanaugh is the CEO of Active Choices, Inc., creator of the IEP Method (Intentional Energetic Presence®) and the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative and a strategist and advisor to leaders and organizations around the world. She is devoted to helping organizations support their people so they are able to show up and bring their best selves to the table, create significant impact in their lives, and create (authentic) positive energy workplaces and cultures. Anese is a keynote speaker and author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives (McGraw-Hill, 2015), CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want (McGraw-Hill, 2019), and THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (a leadership storybook).
As a leading voice on intention, energy, and presence in leadership and culture, she helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively. She holds a degree in Kinesiology as well as multiple credentials in coaching, training, facilitation, and relationship systems that support her in bringing a breadth of knowledge to clients in order to meet them where they’re at and best pair the team with the optimally fit engagements.
Top innovators and executives in companies including Ford Motor Company, IDEO, Zingerman’s, Cooper, GM Financial, Vistaprint, 15Five, Fitbit, Vivayic, Kaiser Permanente, BNY Mellon, and others have engaged with Active Choices to strengthen team health, maximize leadership impact, and optimize company culture. In addition to appearing in publications like Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, CEO.com, Forbes, the NY Times, and others, Anese writes a column, “Showing Up” on Inc.com, blogs regularly for subscribers of ActiveChoices.com, and speaks on stages (in person and virtually) around the world.
JENNY WILEY
Certified Professional Coach
ACI Director of Programming & Community Growth
Jenny Wiley is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator, specializing in group coaching, culture & teams development. She is the former director of community at iPEC Coaching, and has served as a trailblazing community lead and consultant for organizations. Her unique expertise also includes a focus on Integrated Marketing Communications, and she is driven by a passion for inclusive, clear, direct, and kind communications.
In addition to facilitating and managing programming experiences for ACI clients, Jenny leads communications, design, and programming for the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative Platform — a private community by Active Choices, Inc. for organizations devoted to creating positive workplaces). In the ACI classroom, you will find her leading and training on the various IEP Methodology tools and holding the logistics clipboard.
Optimize Your Company Culture
The ACI Team can provide the IEP Method Immersion Session — in addition to other training tracks — virtually or in-person to support your organizational needs. Reach out for more information and to discuss opportunities for your company.