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Getting Better Results from Meetings – Using “Six Thinking Hats” and SlideBatch Together

Ann Marie and I are often called in as third-party meeting facilitators for our clients, especially when the focus is on strategic marketing planning for the next fiscal year. A technique, that we have been using successfully over the past several years, is Edward De Bono’s “Six Thinking Hats”…

Manage your time to give Mr. President a bath

This afternoon Ed and I took Mr. President, our English Bulldog, on what should have been a short walk — 30 minutes. We’d be back and I’d be able to finish the week off with a list nearly completed. Well, April showers bring dirty English Bulldogs. The trail we took offered Mr. President with the […]

When to call for reinforcements…

I’m a tinkerer by nature. I like to take things apart and figure out how they work before calling in someone in to help me (or “calling in reinforcements”). Sometimes it’s fun trying to put it back together again, but many times it is a huge pain, but I often learn a good lesson in […]

How I Created My PowerPoint Presentation for Enterprise University

Next month, I will be presenting at Enterprise University “DIY Marketing – How to Promote Your Business Through Social Media”. This class will be 3 hours long and the audience will not have access to the internet, making it difficult for them to follow along with my presentation, so it will be a challenge to keep them […]

Making only "right" turns

At the beginning of my professional career, I spent some time as a UPS package car driver while going to night school to earn my MBA. Among the many things that I learned from that experience besides safe driving habits, was to be efficient with my time. The object of each day was to run […]

Tuesday…not the only productive day of the week

Tuesday is the most productive day of the work week. The theory is that people tend to plan their weeks on Monday and by Friday their minds are already on the weekend. That might be true from some but I don’t think the majority of people operate that way. In a recent piece by Michelle […]