Laurence MAYER's List: Tips

• 8. Reward Yourself. It’s important to reward yourself for setting priorities and following through. If you’ve made an achievement towards a priority or goal, don’t just cross it off your list and move on to the next thing. Take some time out to reward yourself for a job well done. You deserve it!
• 7. Keep Your Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is very important to setting priorities. If you’re not jazzed up about your goals, you may end up losing interest. Achieving priorities and goals is very difficult without a decent dose of enthusiasm. You can keep it up by remembering what’s really important to you. If you’re working towards a specific goal, keep in mind how great you’ll feel once you achieve success.
• 6. Keep Your Focus. Strive to remain focused on your priorities.
• 5. Realize that You Can’t Do Everything. After you get organized with your priority lists, you might be tempted to have your attention on too many things at once. You need to realize that there are only 24 hours in a day. There are things you wanted to accomplish that you won’t be able to just yet. Schedule it for another day and don’t sweat it.
• 4. Get Organized.
• 3. Learn How to Balance.
• you also don’t want to be too wordy and confuse yourself in the future.
• State them as simply as you can.
• 1. Determine Your Goals.
• you can’t set your priorities without knowing what you want to achieve in the first place.
• 2. Get Clear.

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• 2. Engender learning not courses

   

  You want learning everywhere. Informal and formal. Your job is to  encourage and support that, but probably not control it. Your job is to  establish the framework, offer support and encouragement but not prohibit,  ignore or over-regulate. Give permission for learning to occur across the  whole workplace.

• 3. Celebrate success

   

  Draw attention to what works. Give endorsement to those who share their  knowledge willingly, recognise and emulate good practice. This will draw  attention to the impact of learning. You are about impact and not  process.

• 4. Banish tedious and meaningless stats from your  vocabulary

   

  Who cares what percentage increase in learning hours you achieved, or how  many courses you delivered. Focus on what happened as a result. What the  organisation can do now that it couldn’t before, and what innovation emerged  from that focus on learning

• 5. Become a learner yourself

   

  Find out what is going on and learn from your learners. You are the  expert and can offer in-depth insight and knowledge, but do that to make things  better not to block learning innovation that does not meet arbitrary criteria  that you established a long while ago
• you are a ‘we’ person not an ‘I’ figure

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