The Complete Guide to Deep Work
How to master the #1 job skill that will never be obsolete
Let’s get right to the point: bouncing between your inbox, pointless meetings, and group chat notifications is no way to get ahead in today’s information economy.
These are markers of busyness not productivity. They won’t help you to deepen your writing practice, master a programming language, or grow your business. In fact, these activities won’t aid you in any number of the ambitious goals you’ve set for yourself.
Instead, succumbing to these attention traps leads you off the path of excellence and down the road of mediocrity. To be truly exceptional at the work you do, and to gain recognition for it, you’ll need to adopt a different strategy entirely.
Enter “deep work”.
The concept was coined by Cal Newport, a renowned author and computer science professor at Georgetown University, in a 2012 blog post and expanded upon in his 2016 bestselling book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. By Newport’s definition, deep work refers to:
“Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.”
Five Keys to Becoming a Great Case Manager
Case managers are responsible for the coordination of services for those who receive mental health, developmental services and other health related services case managers play an important role in ensuring that people receive the health services they need and that they are happy with those services.
I often come in contact with service providers who are interested in becoming case managers. I also get questioned by people when I’m visiting my clients at home or at work/day support programs. The job might appear to be easy while I’m going around doing site visits. I try to explain to them that the job entails so much more than just the face to face visits. I have listed five keys that I feel make successful case managers.
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How To Handle Personality Conflicts At Work
At some point in our professional lives, most of us will have to deal with people we just don’t like or can’t seem to get along with. A clash of personalities is most likely at the root of these conflicts. Despite our best efforts, we sometimes just can’t seem to make it work. The unfortunate result is that the quality and enjoyment of our work suffers, and our stress levels skyrocket. In most cases when personality conflicts happen in the workplace, the entire team is disrupted as well.
