We all love Dilbert, right? Lately, this one REALLY hits the mark for me: Why? Because suddenly, everyone else’s time is more important than mine. Â Granted I’m a bit grumpy because over 25% of my meetings scheduled last week didn’t happen because the other party didn’t show. At all. No phone call, no nothing. But I digress…. If you register for a meeting, sign up to attend something, schedule a meeting with another person, or just tell a friend you’ll meet them for coffee and don’t, you are communicating a whole bunch of information in a very direct way. Â Clearly that event / meeting / coffee whatever WASN’T IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO REMEMBER. Â Have you ever known anyone who likes to be forgotten? Also, schedule yourself so you have enough time to get where you need to be. Â Aren’t sure where you are going? Â Check a […] Continue reading
Do You Participate?
I had a wonderful opportunity today to speak to the Society of Human Resource Management group in Medina today. Â Tomorrow I will be speaking to a group from the Akron Chamber on LinkedIn. Â Last week I did a session with the Young Entrepreneurs Academy. Â In each session, you could clearly see who came for a reason and who came because they had to do so. Â And it got me thinking…. When you go to a meeting, why are you there? Â Do you know? Â Can you answer? Â I’m on the programming committee for the Medina Chamber and we plan speakers for meetings. Â There are those who believe the speaker topic is the reason people come out. Â One person told me attendance is largely driven by the weather and in bad weather people stay home. Â So does that mean a truly compelling topic would motivate them to […] Continue reading
Actions Speak Loudest
Let’s just say you are hosting an event. You walk into the room and your speaker is already there as well as several attendees. If this is 30 minutes before your event, no problem. But what if it is FIVE minutes before your event? I bring this up because this has happened to me a number of times lately. Either I was the speaker or I was an attendee who got to spend a great deal of time with the speaker because the organizer didn’t show up early. For the one the organizer got there right before it started and the other he arrived on time but then had to get coffee, etc. so we didn’t start on time. So what did they communicate? In both cases someone sitting near me said, “I’ll have to remember this the next time I’m rushing to get here”. […] Continue reading