Framework: the Energy Map
Best for: Individual and group settings
When to use it: Monthly, either individually, with your manager/direct reports or within your teams (if you feel comfortable doing so).
Purpose: To understand what are your top energy giving or energy draining activities and the role they play in your overall daily, weekly and monthly wellbeing.
How to:
List your top energy giving or energy draining activities based on their (+) or (-) effect on you. To help you do this reflect on the following:
A day when you felt energised and inspired
A day when you felt tired, de-motivated or frustrated
Write down what you were doing on each of these days and prioritise those that had a direct impact on your energy.
When looking at those tasks that give you energy, ask yourself how can you bring more of these into your day and for those that drain your energy explore how you can do less of them or delegate to others who get energy from those types of activities.
💡 Top tips
+ Check out the Wellbeing Wheel to dig deeper into wellbeing at work. It’s a great framework o understand and visualise how you are doing in each of the 8 pillars of wellbeing, and to identify which areas need more attention.
