This week I am at ASTD’s International Conference and Expo in Dallas. If you haven’t been to this conference or haven’t been in a while, you should really plan on attending next year. It’s really an amazing event. Some of the hot topics this year are Agility in learning and development, creativity, whole brain learning, […]

I started looking at Stephen Covey’s four quadrants again as a planning tool. As some of you may remember, I am always looking for the holy grail of planning. So I attended their new 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity webinar today.  This is not a review of the program as much as a revisit of […]

Vote for Me! Tonight is election night in my town. Of course like most towns that have local elections, not many people run for office. It can be a pretty thankless job and a horrible process of declaring what you would do given the chance. 50% of the people like what you would do and […]

What’s a T and an R? It’s the type of person you are, either transactional or relational. Let me explain. We all encounter transactions every day. Small transactions such as going to a store, scheduling an appointment with a doctor, and many others. These could be occasional and typically last for one transaction or one […]

I thought we would do something different today. I spent the day at the New England Regional ASTD Chapters Conference. What a great day of networking and learning. I want to thank all the volunteers and organizers. It was really a great event. I am sure some of those topics will be brought up during […]