If your workshop ends with claps and photos but no one does anything differently afterward, you didn’t train—you performed—and the cost is wasted time, budget, and trust. In this article, Jef Menguin shares the rhythm he uses in every session—Mirror → Shift → Win → Act—to move people from insight to real action while they’re still together. Practice it and pass it to your facilitators so your sessions produce momentum that survives Monday.
It didn’t happen once. It happens every day. That’s the part people don’t say out loud. They talk about procrastination like it’s a bad season you “overcome,” like you wake up one morning cured forever. But the truth is simpler and more human: every day
The first time I ran a workshop, I wanted to look like I had it all figured out. I walked in with slides that felt like armor. I overprepared because I didn’t want to get caught off guard. I wanted to be the guy who
I thought I was building a business. I was really building a posture. There was a season when every inquiry felt like manna. Not because it was the right client or the right work, but because it was work. It was proof that somebody, somewhere,
On a Monday morning, a project lead walked into the meeting with a clean slide deck and a tired smile. He had work. He had effort. But when the boss asked, “So… ano na?”, the room went quiet. Not because they had nothing. Because nothing