How can you quickly measure the Return on Time Invested (ROTI) by the participants of a meeting? Have the participants rate their personal ROTI during the meeting using the following scale: 4. Superb: I learned something that will save me significant time. 3. Positive: I learned something that will save me time. 2. Balanced: I broke … [Read more...]
Influencing Management
In response to my post entitled Check the Box where I suggest that you choose not to argue with your manager about doing a task whose primary purpose is the furtherance of a PR campaign with their manager, my colleague Bob Lee writes "How much Fantasy Experienced As Reality is building up above?" It depends on your point of view, Bob. For Susan, … [Read more...]
PowerPoint Confession
I confess. In the mid-1980s, I really liked Powerpoint. I was a Systems Engineer for the Amdahl Corporation who gave hundreds of presentations each year. Up until PowerPoint, my choices for media was either a slide projector or overhead projector. So, I could use the corporate slide set or hand draw my own overheads. The corporate slide set, … [Read more...]
The Satir Change Model
Improvement is always possible. This conviction is the heart of the transformation system developed by family therapist Virginia Satir. Her system helps people improve their lives by transforming the way they see and express themselves. An element of the Satir System is a five-stage change model (see Figure 1) that describes the effects each stage … [Read more...]
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