Five Questions That Change Everything: Life Lessons at Work

""Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson." T.S. Eliot captures the essence of Five Questions That Change Everything. So what turns an experience into a learning opportunity? It's not what happens in the seminar, workshop or classroom. It has to do with your attitude, the way

you approach the experience. The only requirement is that you seek the lesson in the experience. And the more you need that lesson, the more likely it is to show up in your everyday experiences through your relationships. If you could start to see your entire life-- relationships, work, recreation, and devotional practice--as a classroom, then all the "stu " that happens to you every day, at work, for instance, could be seen as grist for your

learning mill, could become the "curriculum" for your development "course" you are taking in this life. We are not just about mastering a subject or a set of skills--the object of most classrooms. This classroom is more about the self-mastery to learning how to manage things like success, failure, fear, pride, confusion, and/or anger. When you can hold what happens at work--or anywhere else in life--this way, then class is always in session, and

that changes everything."

John Scherer has coached and consulted with leaders and their organizations all over the world. His life experience as a Combat Officer on a US Navy destroyer, Lutheran Chaplain at Cornell University, graduate school co-creator, author and successful entrepreneur gives him a unique perspective from which to address the real challenges of the world at work. With a lively delivery, rich material and an uncanny knack for connecting quickly with any group of people, John Scherer's keynotes are remembered, applied and talked about for years. He is a pioneer in the emerging field that shares the name of his 1993 book, Work and the Human Spirit, and is the author or creator of over a hundred articles and video programs in the fields of leadership development, conflict resolution, high-performance and unleashing the human spirit at work. He has two chapters in the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work as well as one in the recent The Many Facets of Leadership. His Breakthrough Series was one of the first applications of video-based technology to assist work groups in becoming high-performance teams.