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The Power of Full Engagement
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to Living with Stress and Building Personal Resilience
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In recent weeks, a new business book titled The Power of Full Engagement (Free Press, February 2003) has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and has reached Number 1 on Amazon, the Wall Street Journal, and New York Times best seller lists. It speaks to the unprecedented numbers of people going to work each day feeling physically fatigued, emotionally on edge, easily distracted and drained of passion and commitment to the companies for which they work. Extraordinary performance, say authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, demands full engagement - a state they define as being physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned with the organizational mission. The Power of Full Engagement offers a unique, practical and proven approach to managing workplace stress, building personal resilience, and transforming individual performance.

An online assessment, The Full Engagement Inventory™, was developed by The Wenroth Group, together with the authors of The Power of Full Engagement and colleague Paul Connelly, PhD, of Performance Programs, Inc.

The authors are Tony Schwartz, who co-authored The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, and Dr. Jim Loehr , a sports psychologist who worked with world-class athletes and other performers for 25 years. Schwartz and Loehr are partners in a training enterprise called The Corporate Athlete™. They explain how their discoveries in peak performance psychology can be applied to individuals and even entire workforces. Career performance, they say, is driven by four personal resources: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual (connection with one's personal values and personal sense of meaning). Their research shows that consistent top performers preserve and restore their resources through rest and recovery. Recovery is a non-negotiable element in the repertoire of consistent top performers, they assert.

The Full Engagement Inventory™ was co-developed by the Wenroth Group in New York City, and, Performance Programs, Inc. in Connecticut, in cooperation with LGE Performance Systems, Orlando, FL..