Four Energies

How to manage your own energy and help manage the energy of those around you. The Four Energies – Future Engage Deliver (FED) principals for leadership development.

Are you more of a Richard or a Pete?

We FEDers talk and think a lot about energy. We talk about the energy leaders bring and the…


Is it useful to be scary?

I have a couple of clients who have both admitted recently that they have a reputation for being…


To what extent are you ‘Unbridled while Corralled’?

  A leader of an organisation once said ‘I want our people to be “unbridled yet corralled”‘. That…


‘Please take responsibility for managing your energy…..’

So read the sign in the back of the pizza van. It caught my eye and although I…


Beware where you let off steam!

Years ago, every morning around 8am, I and the other managers at a sausage factory in Manchester would…


Hang on to that holiday feeling!

Like many people I am back from holidays and keen as ever to keep up some of the…


Does one of my practices work for you?

We are just back from a brilliant holiday in Thailand and Laos. There’s lots to report including a…


Could you play in the garden more??

In this post Alan Humphries highlights the importance of engaging in and enjoying an activity which in the…


Is there an antidote to exhaustion?

Do you sometimes notice colleagues and friends who appear to have lost their zest for work and life?…


Do you feel safe enough to be wild?

This week the post is from Steve Holliday, a regular contributor to our FED Central site. In this…