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Elene Cafasso

About Elene Cafasso

Elene Cafasso is a professionally trained executive coach, and President of Enerpace, Inc. Elene’s coaching enables leaders to achieve their objectives in the areas most critical to their success: leadership agility, emotional intelligence, team building, professional communication and organizational effectiveness.

Employee Accountability (and the Manager Too)

How do you hold your employees accountable? Accountability best practices apply just as well when folks are working remotely as when they’re in the office. Here are some key things to remember: Make sure to define what success looks like. Is it solving a problem? Creating something new? Writing a business plan? How much leeway does the employee have in terms of what the result looks like? Make sure the goal contains all of the “SMART” criteria – it’s specific, measurable, attainable, rewarding and has a ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00December 8, 2021|Boss and Employee Relationship, Communication at Work|
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Toolkit for the First Time Manager

Things I wish I knew before becoming a new manager – That my success depended on making my employees successful My real job is to make sure my people have what they need to do their jobs Coaching skills so I could “teach them to fish instead of giving them the fish”. A good manager asks the questions that helps folks think their way to the right answer. That being a manager entails being part coach, part parent, part therapist, part teacher, part cheerleader, ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00September 7, 2021|Career, Management, Onboarding|
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Your Essential Team Member Quits, Now What?

During my corporate career, I often said “Nobody is irreplaceable. It’s just a matter of how inconvenient it is.” I still believe that now, after 19 years working with leaders across many top firms and industries. Hopefully, the company has a talent management program that helps them align a people strategy with their business strategy. Those that do have identified successors for all key roles and have put development plans in place. When we do this work with leadership teams, we place potential candidates in buckets: ready now; ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00June 30, 2021|Blog, Talent Management|
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Addressing Why Your Boss Shuts Down Your Ideas

If your boss keeps shutting down your ideas, it is absolutely appropriate to investigate a bit. Try the following approaches/words that work: It seems like my idea wasn’t appropriate here. What would make my idea a better fit? (OR More realistic? OR Work for our team?) Many times when I offer ideas, they don’t seem to be well-received. What would make them more valuable to you? How do you like to receive suggestions? I love brainstorming and generating new ideas. I notice that mine don’t seem to fly.  Would you provide ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00May 17, 2021|Blog, Boss and Employee Relationship, Communication at Work|
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Employee Productivity & Team Collaboration – a Challenge During this Time of Remote Work

Many are challenged working remotely with too much information between Zoom and all the other platforms and apps for remote employees. This is a real problem for both the company and employee.  By the end of the day, folks are exhausted from having to switch their attention so frequently. And, also frustrated from feeling they accomplished too little or weren’t able to produce their highest quality work. There are costs to productivity levels with this pull between individual and team over many platforms. Research ...

By |2021-08-24T19:59:56+00:00February 9, 2021|Productivity, Team Alignment|
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The ABC’s of Emotional Intelligence

Do you ever find yourself reacting negatively or self critically to a comment made by a colleague? As a result, the conversation takes an unproductive turn and you may become frustrated, defensive or angry. You can feel it happening, but are powerless to pull yourself out of the reactionary pattern. I witnessed just such an interchange between my client and their boss recently. What I heard as a neutral comment given in a neutral tone/manner sent my client into the “I’m not good ...

By |2023-06-06T17:09:35+00:00December 2, 2020|Blog|
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A Balanced Life: What Is It

Work/Life Balance. You hear about it everywhere: in magazine articles, TV reports, and now even entire books have been published on the subject. Everyone seems to want it, yet no one seems to have it! In fact, as a professional coach, most of my clients are overstressed and over-busy people who want more balance in their life while still achieving their highest goals. But exactly what does a balanced life mean to most people? As background for this article, I decided to ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00December 2, 2020|Blog|
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Disengaged Employees? Here’s How to Create Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement is one of the biggest challenges facing businesses today. Why? Because disengaged employees are costing you and your business lost productivity, profits and customers. What is employee engagement? It is a business management concept. An engaged employee is one who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about, his or her work and thus will act in a way that furthers the organization’s interests. The results for the 2010 Gallup study on Employee engagement are out …AND they are disturbing. First ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00December 2, 2020|Blog|
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Emotional Intelligence Overview

Though the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been around for decades, there is a growing body of research and real world success stories that prove leaders with high EI outperform their peers with lower EI. They also create greater impact and more profitability for the organization overall. So what is Emotional Intelligence? EI can be defined as: The ability to identify and manage emotional information in oneself and others Skill in focusing energy on those behaviors that influence your ability and the ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00December 2, 2020|Blog|
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Teams Working Together

So, how do you keep two different teams functioning as separate entities working together? In our work with companies and teams, we’ve found the following best practices to be helpful: Create shared goals – if the teams have common objectives against which their success will be judged, it creates an incentive to stay aligned. Many companies tie variable compensation/bonuses to the shared goals as well, so that everyone operates for the greater good of the company instead of focusing only on what’s best ...

By |2022-07-29T10:30:13+00:00November 4, 2020|Communication at Work, Team Alignment|
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