Teleclass: How To Plan To Do Great Work Sustainably

Michael Bungay-Stanier and I recently hopped on the phone and started chatting about great work. Both of us had been scratching at a similar itch: how do you do great work sustainably?

Great work requires you to stick with your work and to plan on sticking with it in the future. When people plan, though, they tend to only look from the two perspectives of yearly, big picture planning and daily, little picture planning. What normally results is a mismatch between what they’re doing day-to-day and the impact they want to be making on the world.

We’ve noticed that what makes the real difference, though, is being able to get the 90- to 270-day planning right – that’s how you mate up the small actions to get the big effects. The sustainability piece follows that because you can do your things more consistently, patiently, and slowly without feeling like you have to do everything Right.Now!.

Easier said than done, right? Well, yes. But we’re going to spend the hour talking about the strategies, frameworks, and techniques we’ve used to help ourselves and others get that critical middle level of planning done.

This is a free teleclass with no pitch for a big program or product. We will, however, reference our own great work to provide examples and resources. Here are the details:

What?: A teleclass on “How to Plan To Do Great Work Sustainably”
When?: Thursday, June 17th at 2pm EDT/ 1 pm CDT / 12pm MDT / 11am PDT
How long?: 1 hour, with roughly 20 minutes Q&A
Who?: Charlie, Michael, and you
Where?: Wherever you can make a call. (We’ll send you the details when you register.)
Why?: Because our great work is helping people do great work – and you want to do more
Cost?: Free.

If you’d like to join us, just sign up below so we can send you details and reminders as the date gets closer. We won’t be sending you a recording of this if you miss it, so you’ll want to save the date!

Update on 12/27: You caught me in the middle of a systems upgrade. If you’d like to get the call and the handouts, please email me at Charlie AT ProductiveFlourishing DOT Com. Forgive the virtual dust – we’ll have things back online shortly.

Want to Know More About Charlie and Michael? Read On.

About Charlie: Charlie helps creative people take those Big Ideas and turn them into the small, doable, and (hopefully) enjoyable actions that get them done. He does this by sharing information at Productive Flourishing and other spots across the interwebs, as well as creating products, developing events, and coaching clients one-on-one. (He’s also an unabashedly big fan of Michael and his work.)

About Michael: Michael is the founder and senior partner with Box of Crayons, a company that works with organizations and teams around the world to help them do less Good Work and teams around the world to help them do less Good Work and more Great Work. He’s an award-winning coach, speaker, and author, having written a few books – the latest of which is Do More Great Work.