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How often have you been bored to death by an eminent guru over using PowerPoint? Or a consultant’s model allegedly the answer to your prayers?
Read on for some ideas about enhancing your message!
The idea of death by PowerPoint as a means to satisfy the presenter’s ego rather than communicate more effectively with their audience is well known. 2x2 matrices are often seen as an academic or consultant force fitting an issue into a model whether or not your context and the model are matched!
Yet the best use of a 2x2 or a PowerPoint presentation is when it makes things easier to understand (the medium is NOT the message).
A thoughtful article called “Point or Shoot” by Michael Schrage is in the Spring 2005 edition of Strategy + Business - look in the “Knowledge Review” section.
So, what is it about your communication - or that of your team - that helps you stand apart in a positive way? Have a read at the article and get some ideas - Better still contact us to help you with getting the basic message right from the start
For more ideas see here
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An Garda Siochana, the Irish Police Service, publishes the Management Journal “Communique” each quarter. In the March 2005 issue you can find an article titled “Executive Coaching” by Superintendent Jack Nolan, one of many senior officers or civilians being coached by Enabling Development.
As well as a review of coaching, Jack describes some of the other initiatives Enabling Development is providing to help the Garda develop its leadership capability.
You can read the article by clicking here
The article will give you an overview of the executive coaching arena and you may well recognise some similarities with the material from the Enabling Development website. It explores some of the theoretical and historical background to executive coaching, the benefits and challenges of coaching, plus some of the approaches that Garda participants have experienced with Enabling Development.
You might think this a pub quiz question for people who cant count. As in any form of strategic thinking, it all depends on the context. If you were a coconut octopus living in Indonesia on some occasions the answer is 2 legs - on which it walks!
For more and the video have a look here
According to HR Magazine’s weekly bulletin of 31 March:
“Two-thirds of UK organisations have a shortage of decent leaders, according to a CIPD survey of UK training managers. However, it also found that, in spite of these complaints, nearly half claimed that leadership development is not an essential business activity. Almost 40% said this was because they could not prove that leadership development had an impact on business activities.”Which leads us to muse that this might say more about their organisations’ focus on performance or the lack of it. We would expect all our clients to define specific measurable outcomes to prove the ROI of any executive coaching or other development activity – otherwise how do we demonstrate the value?
Here’s 5 tips to make it easier from the Harvard Working Knowledge site
- Balance what they seek with what you need
- Take charge of your own professional development
- Excel in your current job
- Know when it’s time to campaign elsewhere
- Don’t rely solely on recruiters
If only we didn’t have to deal with the people…
Our philosophy is that over 90% of any job is about talking with and influencing others. For many people in corporate life the time spent on relationships is way less than that spent on task – and smart organisations are now redressing the balance.
In this book review of “Survival of the Savvy” there are some cautionary tales to remind us that the pitfalls in the US are just as relevant in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
For more click though to the Fast Company
How fast is YOUR treadmill? The performance paradox is explored in April 2005 Fast Company– the more you do, the more you have to do to stay ahead. This is not just others stealing your lunch – it is rooted around customer expectations and our every faster methods of communication.
Question is – as the hamster on the treadmill – when would you burn out? Sooner or sooner still? How would you change your style to operate smarter – what would you have to do differently?
For the full story have a look at: the Fast Company