Four stories to get your audience excited about your manual, guideline or procedures – Part 3This is the third in a series of several stories providing metaphors to help you get your audience invested in a new manual, guideline or procedure. Regular readers know that I believe telling stories and creating metaphors to help drive points home and convince an audience to act after a presentation is over is one way to persuade listeners. Read more
Four stories to get your audience excited about your manual, guideline or procedures – Part 2Telling stories and creating metaphors to help drive points home and convince an audience to act after a presentation is over is one way to persuade listeners. This is the second in a series of several stories providing metaphors to help you get your audience invested in a new manual, guideline or procedure. Read more
Four stories to get your audience excited about your manual, guideline or procedures – Part 1Regular readers know that I am a strong proponent of sharing stories and extending the metaphor to help drive points home and to convince an audience to act after a presentation is over. This is the first in a series of several stories providing metaphors to help you get your audience invested in a new manual, guideline or procedure. Read more
Each week, the Fast Track Tools training company and the Cubicle Ninjas design firm work together to publish a template that makes it easier for you to communicate your ideas. This week, we created a chart for publishing the results from a study or research project. Read more
Personal branding lessons learned from Gulf SpillAfter a few Memorial Day get togethers over the weekend, I realized how many oil spill experts I know. The terms of this disaster have become common, everyday topics. From blowout preventers to top kills, everyone knows this deep water nomenclature. Amid this catastrophe, are some lessons in personal branding. Read more
Ready to leave your day job and make your hobby your career?Do you dream of leaving your day job and making a career of a hobby? Rick Field made it happen. As a VH-1 producer, he had created a very successful career at the center of breaking pop culture. But, on the weekends he used his grandmother’s recipes and methods to pickle anything that came to mind – from cucumbers to cauliflower. Read more
Each week, the Fast Track Tools training company and the Cubicle Ninjas design firm work together to publish a template that makes it easier for you to communicate your ideas. This week, we developed a simple layout to compare the advantages and disadvantages of any topic. Read more
Reward employees oftenUnemployment may be at 9.6%, but it’s rare to find any employee in America who says there is 9.6% less work to do. In fact, it is just the opposite. Employees are working harder. How do we reward this hard work? The trend in 2010 was to unfreeze pay and reinstate 401k programs. Without spending millions, leaders can go a step further. Read more
How to organize ideas for a presentation – the envelope methodYou have one hour to present, but 67 key items that support your topic. How do you decide which one will make the cut? Now, complicate things even more. The 67 facts, stories and supporting evidence have been provided by five colleagues who are helping you prepare for the presentation. Read more
Each week, the Fast Track Tools training company and the Cubicle Ninjas design firm work together to publish a template that makes it easier for you to communicate your ideas. This week we bring you a unique way to present an idea or strategy with three distinct action oriented elements. Read more