SUMMARY:
1.
Join me for a Q&A Interview
with organizational leadership coach, consultant, and author,
Peter Bregman on Friday 5/25/12 at 1:00 pm ET. Info
here.
2.
See Bregman's essay below on "An
18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day."
3. Join Ben's Coaching TeleWorkshop
Thursday, 5/24/12. Valuable information.
Plus win a fellowship to our Foundations Coach Training Program.
Info
here.
IN
THIS ISSUE:
1. Coaching TeleWorkshop with Ben, 5/24/12 —
Info
here
2. Peter Bregman Interview 5/25/12 — Info
here
3. MAIN: "An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day"
by Peter Bregman
4. *NEW* The Art of Meditation Master Class starts 6/5/12 —
Info
here
5.
Classes
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1. Coaching TeleWorkshop 5/24/12
— Info
Here
The
Coaching TeleWorkshop with
Ben Dean, Ph.D., MCC
Practical
material you can use ASAP,
and
a virtual drawing for a fellowship to the Foundations
Coach Training Program, and fun!
When: Thursday,
May 24, 2012
Time:
7:00
pm to 8:55 pm Eastern
All Time Zones: Click
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Tuition: No cost
To Register: click
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2.
Peter Bregman Interview 5/25/12 — Info
Here
You
may remember from 2010 "our
wonderful interview" with best-selling author, Dan
Pink. Here’s what Dan says:
"18
Minutes is an intensely smart, insanely readable, and eminently
practical guide to boosting our effectiveness and deepening
our satisfaction."
~
Dan Pink, author of Drive
FRIDAY'S
INTERVIEW WITH PETER BREGMAN
Participate
in our Q&A Interview with prizewinning author and organizational
leadership coach, Peter Bregman, MBA. Bring all your questions.
DATE:
Friday
May 25, 2012
TIME: 1:00-2:20pm Eastern (New York)
12:00-1:20 pm Central (Dallas)
11:00-12:20 pm Mountain (Denver)
10:00-11:20 am Pacific (San Francisco)
All
Other Time Zones are here.
TO REGISTER, FOR MUCH INFO, AND TO RECEIVE THE RECORDING,
click
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WHY
YOU SHOULD COME:
Peter is an exceptionally good writer. His books are so
well written, filled with plausible, useful ideas. If
you have clients who would love to be dramatically more productive
or if that describes you (as it does me), you should come to
this call.
Peter
has built an extremely successful organizational coaching business
and a successful international speaking and writing career.
Come find out how he does it. Bring your most practical
questions.
ABOUT PETER BREGMAN, MBA
Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a global
management consulting firm which advises CEOs and their leadership
teams. He speaks, writes, and consults about how to lead and
how to live.
Peter
is the author of five books. His latest is 18
Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right
Things Done, winner of the Gold Medal
from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business
book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher's Weekly
and the New York Post as a top 10 business book of the year.
MORE.
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3.
An 18-Minute Plan for Managing your Day — By Peter Bregman
Yesterday
started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office
in the morning with a vague sen
se
of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned on my
computer, and checked my email. Two hours later, after fighting
several fires, solving other people's problems, and dealing
with whatever happened to be thrown at me through my computer
and phone, I could hardly remember what I had set out to accomplish
when I first turned on my computer. I'd been ambushed. And I
know better.
When
I teach time management, I always start with the same question:
How many of you have too much time and not enough to do in it?
In ten years, no one has ever raised a hand.
That
means we start every day knowing we're not going to get it all
done. So how we spend our time is a key strategic decision.
That's why it's a good idea to create a to do list and an ignore
list. The hardest attention to focus is our own.
But
even with those lists, the challenge, as always, is execution.
How can you stick to a plan when so many things threaten to
derail it? How can you focus on a few important things when
so many things require your attention?
We
need a trick.
Jack
LaLanne, the fitness guru, knows all about tricks;
he's famous for handcuffing himself and then swimming a mile
or more while towing large boats filled with people. But he's
more than just a showman. He invented several exercise machines
including the ones with pulleys and weight selectors in health
clubs throughout the world. And his show, The Jack LaLanne Show,
was the longest running television fitness program, on the air
for 34 years.
But
none of that is what impresses me. He has one trick that I believe
is his real secret power.
Ritual.
At
the age of 94, he still spends the first two hours of his day
exercising. Ninety minutes lifting weights and 30 minutes swimming
or walking. Every morning. He needs to do so to achieve his
goals: on his 95th birthday he plans to swim from the coast
of California to Santa Catalina Island, a distance of 20 miles.
Also, as he is fond of saying, "I cannot afford to die.
It will ruin my image."
So he works, consistently and deliberately, toward his goals.
He does the same things day in and day out. He cares about his
fitness and he's built it into his schedule.
Managing
our time needs to become a ritual too. Not simply a list or
a vague sense of our priorities. That's not consistent or deliberate.
It needs to be an ongoing process we follow no matter what to
keep us focused on our priorities throughout the day.
I
think we can do it in three steps that take less than 18 minutes
over an eight-hour workday.
STEP
1 (5 Minutes) Set Plan for Day. Before
turning on your computer, sit down with a blank piece of paper
and decide what will make this day highly successful. What can
you realistically accomplish that will further your goals and
allow you to leave at the end of the day feeling like you've
been productive and successful? Write those things down.
Now,
most importantly, take your calendar and schedule those things
into time slots, placing the hardest and most important items
at the beginning of the day. And by the beginning of the day
I mean, if possible, before even checking your email. If your
entire list does not fit into your calendar, reprioritize your
list. There is tremendous power in deciding when and where you
are going to do something.
In
their book The Power of Full Engagement,
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz describe a study in which a group
of women agreed to do a breast self-exam during a period of
30 days. 100% of those who said where and when they were going
to do it completed the exam. Only 53% of the others did.
In
another study, drug addicts in withdrawal (can you find a more
stressed-out population?) agreed to write an essay before 5
p.m. on a certain day. 80% of those who said when and where
they would write the essay completed it. None of the others
did.
If
you want to get something done, decide when and where you're
going to do it. Otherwise, take it off your list.
STEP
2 (1 minute every hour) Refocus. Set
your watch, phone, or computer to ring every hour. When it rings,
take a deep breath, look at your list and ask yourself if you
spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar
and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next
hour. Manage your day hour by hour. Don't let the hours manage
you.
STEP
3 (5 minutes) Review. Shut
off your computer and review your day. What worked? Where did
you focus? Where did you get distracted? What did you learn
that will help you be more productive tomorrow?
The
power of rituals is their predictability. You do the same thing
in the same way over and over again. And so the outcome of a
ritual is predictable too. If you choose your focus deliberately
and wisely and consistently remind yourself of that focus, you
will stay focused. It's simple.
This
particular ritual may not help you swim the English Channel
while towing a cruise ship with your hands tied together. But
it may just help you leave the office feeling productive and
successful.
And,
at the end of the day, isn't that a higher priority?
(Reprinted
from the Harvard
Business Review Blog Network -- July
20, 2009)
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4.
*NEW* The Art of Meditation Master Class — Starts 6/5/12
— Info
here
Meditation
is associated with between 70 and 100 health benefits.
There is no more reliable coaching or positive psychology intervention
than meditation. You would be remiss if you did not have
the skill to inspire and enable your clients to use it.
Yet the paradox is that unless you, yourself, meditate, you
almost certainly will be unable to effectively and credibly
persuade others to do it.
The
Art of Meditation Master Class
DAY: 8 Tuesdays
TIME: 11:30 am - 12:30 am Eastern (New York)
STARTS: June 5, 2012 Ends: July
24, 2012
All Time Zones - click
here
Faculty: Ann-Marie
McKelvey, LPCC, MCC
For Info, click
here
ABOUT
ANN-MARIE McKELVEY, LPCC, MCC
When
Ann-Marie was 17 her father, after training in Transcendental
Meditation himself, gave her the enduring gift of learning TM.
Over the years she has studied various forms of meditation via
teachers from both Eastern and Western cultures. 
She
has been a meditation teacher since 1975. Although Ann-Marie
can't imagine a life without sitting daily on her cushion, she
is also well versed in the challenges of making meditation into
a verb. She is also intimately familiar with the inner critic
who regularly wants to trump meditation with the all important
To Do List. Why does she continue to meditate? Because, bottom-line,
her life becomes more spacious, loving, and filled with ease
even in the midst of chaos!
Ann-Marie
McKelvey, LPCC, MCC, Wellness Coach, Buddhist Chaplain and Psychotherapist
completed Upaya Zen Center's two-year Chaplaincy Program in
2010 where she specifically focused on peacemaking, environmental
studies, care of the care-giver and wellness. Her teachers during
the program included Joan Halifax, Brother David Steindl-Rast,
Mattieu Ricard, Richie
Davidson, Joanna Macy, Jim Austin, Lynne Twist, Bernie
Glassman, B. Allan Wallace, Dan Seigel, Stephen Batchelor, Sharon
Salzberg, Norm Fischer as well as many members of the MindLife
Institute founded by HH Dahlai Lama.
For All Information, click
here.
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5.
Classes
Foundations
Coach Training Program
MCP
162 Thursdays
31 Thursdays
8:00 pm - 8:59 pm Eastern
(New York Time)
All
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Starts Thursday May 24, 2012
Pat
Walker, Ph.D.
A
Conversation
with Pat Hinton Walker, Ph.D.
Pa
t
Walker, Ph.D. talks about life as a university Vice President,
her international coaching practice and teaching the Foundations
Coach Training Program. (21 mins.) Just click
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MCP
163 Wednesdays
31 Wednesdays
1:00 pm - 1:59 pm Eastern (New York Time)
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Starts Wednesday June 27, 2012
Ann-Marie
McKelvey, LPCC, MCC
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MCP
164 Wednesdays
31 Wednesdays
8:00 pm - 8:59 pm Eastern (New York Time)
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Starts Wednesday July 25, 2012
Kevin
Handley, Ph.D.
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