Time to review the Art and Science of Delegation – an essential leadership skill for entrepreneurs and discuss three important questions.
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Do Your Presentations Suck?
Based on the positive reaction to last month’s feature, ‘Does Your Marketing Suck?”, we’ll discuss presentations in the same context and style all year. Rather than assume that they do, I’ll ask lots of diagnostic questions so you can decide for yourself if your presentations do suck and, if so, how much.
WordPower – KISS Your Verbosity Goodbye
Welcome to another year-long series intended to enhance your communication skills. This time, it’s ‘WordPower’ – simple best practices to improve your routine workplace writing. To start the year off, one of my favorite rants about verbosity.
People Feature: How to tell your boss you are overworked
People Feature: How to tell your boss you are overworked
Article published on October 18, 2018
By Selena Li
Fund professionals in Asia are no strangers to working overtime, but when long hours are taking a toll on one’s health and life, whether and how to tell your superiors can be challenging.
The “upward” communication with a manager demands a thorough evaluation beforehand followed by careful preparation, as well as execution finesse, experts say.
Another Helping of Your Questions
A holiday treat for you – simple and useful answers to your presentation skill-orientated questions. This month, you asked …
Does Your Marketing Suck?
I thought of calling this rant ‘Your Marketing Sucks’, but that declarative statement sounded too in-your-face and presumptuous, even for me. So, I changed the statement into a question to let you decide if your marketing sucks … and how much. (Full disclosure – this piece first ran in COSE’s Mind Your Business Blog in September.)
Introverts Arise!
I recently got a call from a reader who admitted to being very introverted, but still wanted to improve his networking results. I thought other introverts might benefit from what we discussed, so here’s the essence of that conversation:
Harness the Power of Words
Content Always Rules in workplace writing … and the words you use deliver that content. To help you Harness the Power of Words, let’s discuss some of my favorite ‘Worst Practices’ – the poor word choices we often make and why we make them. Typically, my executive coaching clients fall victim to three flaws affecting the words they use … and don’t use.
We’ve Got to Keep Meeting Like This!
Last month’s article on meeting agendas generated some interest and requests for more content on the topic. So, here are more Best Practices for your Meeting Management Tool Kits.
Brain Food
Enjoy this little treat for your Tool Kit to enjoy after your Thanksgiving feast with my compliments. I’m so pleased that you continue to value this short and simple feature. And this month’s questions are …