If you build it, they WILL come! (Jason Womack)

My colleague (and an incredible visionary and inspiring leader) Christopher Scott has done it again! Some time ago, we started talking about the possibility of me coming in and doing a "pro-bono" seminar for the United Way of Stanislaus county. We made it happen today...over 25 people signed up and 31 showed up!

One of our corporate principles is to work with people who are doing good things for the planet, and Christopher is one of those leaders.

Here's his write-up after the seminar...just click here!

What did people walk away with at the end of our time together? I'll let any participants leave comments here on this blog. But, I can share this: Here's the follow-up note I sent after we were done!

Thank you for attending the Mastering Workplace Performance seminar today. I really appreciated all of the effort people made to get to that course. I understand that in 3 hours we can only go over so many details, I hope that when you get back to your office that the workbook becomes a reference book and something that you can go back to time and time again. There are just a few things that I would like to consider as a carry over from attending the workshop.

Books and other resources I recommended in today's seminar:

"Think and grow rich" - the ultimate in “self-mastery” and leadership development
Steven Snyder – an expert in whole-brain learning
"One-minute manager" - the “most important” book to read yearly as a manager
“Myth of Laziness” - book on learning/education
Mel Levine – educational psychologist
"Seven Habits of Highly Effective people" - Steven Covey’s famous book
Karen Pryor – behavioral psychologist
“Don’t Shoot the Dog” - a very important book on learning and achievement

1) Look at your technology and tools to ensure that you're getting the maximum value from the effort that you're putting in for maintaining and managing all of that information. Technology will make things easy, however, you've got to know how to maximize those tools. The website such as Outlook Dashboard as well as others, can make it easier for you to get more of the right things done.

2) Use pages 8 and 9 as a continual process for the next five days. Use these two pages (or, other pages in your legal pad or notebook) as data collection and potential identification tools. It's great if you can build something that's within your own personal management system that counts as a collection device, whether it's a legal pad, a notebook, 3x5 note cards, anyway you can, continue to get a good ideas out of your head, onto paper. (Consider signing up for a Jott account.)

Number 3, Debrief everything. In the workbook on pages 14 and 15, we outline a weekly debrief process. I highly recommend you practice debriefing our time together on Wednesday.

Look back through your notes, both the ones in the notebook as well as any notes that you wrote down in your own note-taking system. Whether that's a legal pad, piece of paper, note card, review what you wrote down for potential idea, action and implementation. Remember, visit our website Jason Womack dot Com, and if you're ever in the mood for recommendations, please do visit this site.