May 8, 2015- The days of fruitless PowerPoint presentations are over, following the launch of an innovative tool called The Energy Bar™ -targeted at organizational leaders.

 Developed by Change Advisor, Speaker and Author, Rick Maurer, The Energy Bar™ is a free, simple and easy to use tool  designed to help leaders harness support, interest for their ideas. The tool features six different points of energy- (ranging from ranging from a point of resistance to a point of acceptance)- effective in helping users to easily identify where their team or stakeholders are on the bar.

In his Energy Bar video, Maurer briefly outlines five simple steps leaders can use to build support for their ideas and avoid the dreaded 'resistance'. Click here to watch the 3-minute animated video - http://www.rickmaurer.com/energybar/.

When asked what inspired the concept for The Energy Bar™, Maurer said: "I was attending a meeting where a planning group was getting caught up on details for a big project that I didn't think served the discussion. I told them to forget about the cycle of change and to think about support and resistance as a bar of energy. I drew a line and that got their attention.

He further added, "As a result, they could instantly identify where their stakeholders were on the bar and came up with brilliant ideas to influencing the movement of energy from resistance towards support. It was then that I realized that this easy to grasp concept to could help just about any organization and leader to gain the result the desire."

Hailed by many as useful, brilliant and simple, The Energy Bar™ radically changes leaders' approach to meetings. Instead of being totally concerned about gaining support for their idea, The Energy Bar™ encourages leaders to demonstrate an interest in the individuals they are trying to influence, by finding out where their energy are on the bar and how they might help shift the energy to something that might support their idea

Several leaders have already experienced the benefits of Maurer's Energy Bar.  Christian H. said: "The Energy Bar stresses the 'care' element in a very simple and powerful way. Most of the managers we meet in training programs, etc. come with an expectation of finding the 'buttons' to push. And often it takes a while and some frustration to get them to really care about the people and the emotional and personal situations they are trying to create change to or for. This bar is simple enough to get managers to really ask themselves this question - and open enough to further explore details. Great tool."

For those who want to turbocharge the energy on the Energy, Rick is available to help provide insight on where teams are on the energy bar, create strategies to get people engaged in work, determine how effective they were are shifting energy and ways to build on that momentum.