What are your practices to create focused work? Why is focused work important? Maybe it is time to prepare for a client, a team meeting to organize others, or perhaps a meeting with an individual employee to discuss how they may be able to improve. In this episode, I discuss three main elements of creating deep work and how you actually execute deep work. 

This is the third part of my four-part series on developing your leadership foundations to help you build your skills for the future. In this episode, I am concentrating on focused work. In the first two parts, we focused on habits of mind and habits of action. 

We’ll dive deeper into these concepts:

• Deep work: what it is and how to do it. 

• Distractions: the things that keep us away from our deep work.

• Strategies for learning new tasks, technologies or skills—methods and practices to continuously work to always learn new things.

Now for some action steps: 

• Make a list of 3-5 things where you could generate value for the organization.

• Make a log of distractions so you can work to minimize them.

• Listen to the next episode, which will be the last in this series and will cover the skills to lead yourself and others.

Resources and links mentioned:

Deep Work by Cal Newport

1st 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman

Ultra Learning by Scott Young

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— Lynn