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…The Workbench Presents: A Manifesto for Creating…and Building YOUR Next Great Thing. This week, I attended the ATD 2018 Conference here in San Diego, and I’m all fired up. Presented by the Association for Talent Development https://www.td.org/, this is for anyone interested in development: leadership, organizational, employee performance, training, personal. The keynote speakers this year included […]
There Was Evidence of Fun A few years ago, I believed this season of life (mid-career, parent of a teen) mostly held only a boatload of work. Work raising the kids, work dealing with career, work on relationships. Even vacation consisted of a lot of work – preparing both work and home, making travel arrangements, […]
Four Questions to Help You Through the Messy Middle… So much of what I’m observing these days in the personal development literature and thinking has to do with big goals and small steps. Any big project is daunting, and so much of the work is hard, messy and in the middle – far from […]
Five Sneaky Culprits in the Workplace That Scuttle Deep Work and Three Solutions You have a presentation due in three weeks, and you’ve developed a project plan and scheduled time to get it done. You know you need uninterrupted time every day to perform at an exceptional professional level. This work will move the organization […]
No Tolerance for Leisure…Or, My New Year’s Resolution 2018 has begun, and the usual goal setting and resolution making has not yet resolved. I have hesitated this year, because I am trying to pare down the “to do” list in my life – it has been too long for too long. We must be vigilant […]