Admittedly, the first time I heard of Strategic Planning was during my Positive Workplaces Internship. Being part of many student and youth organizations, I’ve heard of strategy, we plan for our events, we claim that our plans are guided by strategies, but I’ve never heard anyone utter the term “Strategic Planning” until then.

I struggle to keep my attention on the things that I do. A phone notification can jostle me out of a work bubble and 45 minutes later I would find myself on Facebook with no idea why I even opened my phone in the first place. That is why I relied on spaces to help me focus.

Positivity is a ripple, as they say, so perhaps a workplace like PW doesn’t have to be as rare as it is now. I hold the belief that the work is not done until PW is no longer the exception; and as part of that ripple, I hope I can do unto others what PW has helped me achieve.