So take it from Mellody or me, when you’re called on to present technical information, there’s no reason to check your personality at the door.
A coaching client recently brought her slide deck for review as we hammered out her message for a major presentation to the executive team—annual update and strategy meeting for her business unit. There peppered between the big themes, accomplishments, goals, and challenges popped up meaningless slides that I call “placeholders.” Placeholders include slides that say [...]
All too often they don’t. A quick scan through the subject lines of the messages in my inbox provides very little useful information. The subject lines read… A Quick Question (They never are…) Time Sensitive (What isn’t?) May I Ask a Question? (No, I don’t have time.) Are You Available Friday at 3:00? (It depends.) [...]
Texting has become a hybrid language unto itself—like sign language for the hearing-impaired or the slang teens invent to create a world all their own. Texting shortcuts such as gr8 or C U 2moro tossed into a formal document suggest that some naïve soul fails to understand the importance of language to his or her career. [...]
