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I recently helped a co-worker cut 3 days of frustration off her project deadline, using 1 of my 3 office communication secrets. Here’s the scenario, she was trying to contact another employee to get his approval on the project. He was the last person who needed to sign off on the project changes… and he wasn’t responding. Sound familiar?
There are several techniques that I’ve learned that help keep project deadlines.
When you have to present Excel data, the last thing you should do is take a screen shot of the data and make it into a PowerPoint slide. The chart should tell a story that can be understood in 5 – 10 seconds. If you take longer than that, your audience will ignore you and focus on trying to understand the chart. Knowing your data is the critical step. Follow these simple steps for charting your data.
For 10 years, I’ve been building reports for Finance, Operations, Accounting, Marketing, Mid-level Managers, Executives, and some just for myself. This is the typical checklist I go through for reports
This podcast covers workshifting or telecommuting or working remotely. We explain the economic term elasticity. And we cover the 5 point checklist BEFORE going on vacation
Training your boss or the director of a company can be tricky. You want to exceed their expectations but how do you deal with emergencies… all the time?
The vast majority of your business users will never use your Business Intelligence tools. There are only 5% (or 1 in 20) of your “users” of business intelligence (BI) tools that will want to “self serve” their information requests. Separate your business users into these three tiers: Shadow IS, Advanced Users, and Managers.
I received this e-mail from a Sales Director: “I’m outside this customer’s office, and I have a presentation to make in 10 minutes. Can you make me a couple of slides showing revenue and units for the past 12 months?” Yes, that really happened.
If you are working for more than 10 minutes on any one process in Excel, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME! I was working on a process that was requiring a bunch of manual moving, copy, and pasting and my little mental timer went off…
It’s time to recharge the batteries, do a little site maintenance, and prepare for the exciting New Year. What do you do to reward yourself for a great year of hard work, share with the community?