How much is each week, day, hour and minute of your time worth to you? What’s an hour a day for a year worth? What’s an hour saved per weekday worth over a month? From $10,000 – $100,000,000 per year. What’s it worth / cost to clean your house yourself? What’s it worth / cost to watch TV?
Are you aware of the loyalty programs offered by your vendors? Have you checked recently or compared the value of the services from these vendors? (With or without the extra perks?) When was the last time you reviewed your employee policies and procedures for your company?
Explain How It Will Make the Company Better Changes can make employees nervous. Whether you’re announcing an acquisition, a reorg, or a new HR policy, people often need help processing the information. Make the announcement go more smoothly by explaining the reason behind the change. Give the background on what’s not working and why the…
What we say creates pictures and emotions in our audiences. Are we motivating or scaring them? Self-defeating words, phrases and concepts derail our presentations to customers, investors, employees and each other! The dangers of double-negatives and other dumb things we say and how they create our world… Click to watch this brief TED talk-like video.
Consider your audience when you use an acronym — does everyone reading or listening know what it means? It’s easy to assume they do, but what becomes of your message when they don’t? Let’s take a look at what to do about it…