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Priority Learning Newsletter February 26th 2025
Published: 2025-02-26 16:19:44
What’s new at Priority Learning!!
At this link: https://prioritylearningresearch.com/professional_development_workshop_series, you will find five day one start dates and they are:
- Managing the Multigenerational Workforce (8-day series) on March 26th
- People Centered Leadership (formerly Influence – 10-day series) on April 10th
- EQ Series (8-day series) on April 30th
- Facilitation and Presentations (8-day series) on May 21st
- Direct Managers Series (7-day series) on August 27th
Please feel free to register for one of the above series at the link above…we are here when and if you need us!!
Hope you are enjoying a true winter this year!! Lots of winter sports to enjoy!!
Come on Spring!!!
Lorraine Twombly
Priority Learning
There’s so much incivility!
All my life I’ve tried to be kind, courteous, and respectful toward all people. I feel empathy for folks who seem unhappy, are lonely, and have hard lives because of their circumstances. I was taught at a young age to respect and be kind to others. Not all of us see that as a way of life.
Not everyone is fortunate to be brought up in a family environment, with loving parents and all the basic needs of surviving. There are people living in poverty who have hopeless outlooks on life. There are people who need help due to mental health and neglect, and many are simply being ignored. How did we, as a society, ever think that it is all right to shun, bully, shame, and ignore people who are not like us? How did we get to the place where lying, shaming, and being disrespectful have become the norm to (too) many in the US.
Lately, every text, email, and other messaging media are all about scaring the heck out of us!! How did we get to this place that started the worse movement of fear mongering since the McCarthy era? Politics and certain huge business concerns are at the worse level of incivility I’ve seen since the 1950’s. People need change, but at what cost? Changing and destroying our way of life for the sake of change even though it doesn’t work for most of the people seems ludicrous. Incivility is leading the charge of destructive change and hatefulness.
Looking at civility and incivility, it starts with our outlook on life!! Many of us born in middle class or affluent families have a leg up on the folks who live in squalor and neglect. Having a safe place to live, getting educated and planning for the future does not happen for folks living in those conditions. Many see life as hopeless. People who lived in poverty and escaped crime, violence, and death are the lucky ones. There are not a lot of opportunities for those folks otherwise. When we care and instill hope and a better life for those of us who are less fortunate, we are being civil-minded. There may not be much we can do, but kindness and respect go a long way toward civility!
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Lorraine Twombly
Priority Learning
