I was talked into taking an influencing skills workshop this morning.
It was a full-day workshop when I signed up several weeks ago, and despite being genuinely worthwhile, with some good advice for resolving conflicts and dealing with people — without being either too new-agey or corporate-speaky — I’m kind of glad it got shortened to end at 12:30. I have no lack of actual work that needs to be done.
Still, I don’t regret going to the workshop. The time went by really quickly, and there were some useful exercises along the way.
The rest of the day was report writing until my brain wanted to explode.