I am sharing four ideas that do not appear in all the many blogs on presenting. I believe that these ideas, added to the advice on slide typeface size, number of words, use of pictures and visuals, 3 minutes per slide, knowing your audience and keep it simple, are really helpful. These elements can be found […]
Month: September 2023
You have Mail – piles and piles of emails
Outside of multiple meetings, email inboxes are a challenge for MMs who receive a hundred or more a day. I want to share some ideas to tame that avalanche. Principles These following principles form a base for thinking about handling emails: 1. Only touch an email once 2. Stop acknowledging that you received an email. […]
Don’t just cut costs, Increase Productivity
If you are a Middle Manager you will, probably, more than once, be called on to cut costs from your budget. During the last few years times have been turbulent and cost cutting has become more prolific. Being asked to cut costs is always difficult and stressful. There is the spectre of laying off people […]
All work is a process. Don’t like the results? Change the process.
I bet you have brushed your teeth the same way every day for a long time. You have a process that you follow for brushing your teeth. You also have processes for showering or bathing or putting on your clothes, cooking, shopping and going to sleep. I challenge you to think of anything you do […]