Summer school started yesterday. I’m taking a full course load and, to be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to it. It’s funny how life can surprise you, though.
In one of my classes, our text is a book called High Impact Learning: New Perspectives in Organizational Learning, Performance, and Chance by Robert O. Brinkerhoff and Anne M. Apking. I have to say, it may be the best book I’ve picked up in awhile. I highly recommend this book for anyone who believes in the power of training to motivate employees and improve company performance. I also recommend this book to anyone who works with anyone else in any capacity-it’s got something for everyone. This book gives its readers almost a birds-eye, yet knowledgeable view of the workplace and is helping shed a new perspective on how organizations work.
I hope this is a useful read for at least one other person. Learning is meaningless without impact!
In other news, I am refocusing in order to make an impact in my own life. I’m also reading another great book called The Happiness Project. I can relate to this author a great deal: lives in New York, works hard, wants to soak every last bit out of life, is extremely blessed, yet she isn’t 100% satisfied with life. In her first chapter, she even describe a scenario so well known to me: Gretchen (author) described her daily journey on the crosstown bus to work in New York City where she stared out the window and did a lot of thinking. Boy, did I do that every day for a year! One day Gretchen decides to spend a year working on her self-titled Happiness Project. She devotes one whole month to a certain goal she wants to achieve, and focuses wholeheartedly on achieving it. In her first month, she organized her “chaos”—apartment, closets, desks, you name it! Gretchen gives you a glimpse of her successes and her failures along her journey, which I like, because making change happen is never easy.
Read more about the Happiness Project at Gretchen’s website: http://www.happiness-project.com/
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