I’m in the Bay Area this week leading launches for an organizational partner and client of mine for about 100 of their people. These are 3.5 hour IEP (Intentional Energetic Presence) & Craft Impact Launches that focus on intention, energy, and presence, and how that ties into leadership skills and behaviors.
Throughout the session people work together as a group, individually, and in pairs… there’s a lot of interaction, a lot of reflection, a lot of energy, and a lot of new awareness on what’s needed to truly create impact… and new awareness on why so many people struggle with it (or make it hard for themselves).
Every time I lead a launch, a retreat, a workshop, or even a private session… one thing is in common:
We’ve got this. This is part of our innate ability. Our intrinsic super power. Our internal wisdom. We’re just so busy running around focusing on external things, we forget to look internally at how we can shift an outcome. Whether it’s how we feel, or how we want to impact a room… we have tremendous influence there.
Yes, learning how to successfully do this from the inside out is helpful. But ultimately at the end of the day, it’s a power I’ve found 97% of the population can tap into with attention and intention.
You’d be shocked and delighted and maybe even a bit verklempt if you knew how easy it can be to shift your impact; at how much easier leadership can be with a little desire, energetic flexibility, and intention.
Shocked. Delighted.
Simple. Complex. So simple. But complex.
Key to success. Easy to apply. Hard to remember.
These are comments I get from clients and program participants. They all make perfect sense. The one that always gets me is the 3rd set. “I know this is key for me. It’s easy to apply. Hard to remember.” Yes.
Why?
At the end of the day it comes down to presence and intention.
If you’re intentional about how you want to show up, and what outcomes you want to achieve, you have a much better shot of creating them.
If you’re present in the moment to what’s needed (for yourself, for the room, for the situation), you have a much better shot of being able to shift the energy, direction, or decision, to help create those outcomes.
The two, intention and presence, are like Wonder Twins. Alone they’re powerful, together they can move mountains.