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
Defining Both Success and Failure
When I start a project, I always define what success looks like. Often I do what success looks like and what the ultimate, totally amazing success would look like (just for fun). Knowing this in advance means you know how to evaluate the project or program and if you keeping within your plan. But the other thing I do is define failure. For some projects this really is anything other than success, but for others, failure is different and there’s a gap between the two. Why would I care? Here’s an example. Recently with a customer we tried a new publication for advertising. It was a good risk – the money wasn’t huge, the audience was right, etc. Success was defined as 25 people saying the came in from the ad. But since we only committed to once, we recognized we had no repetitive benefits. […] Continue reading
Preparation Means Always Being There
Recently my computer died a horrible death. Of course it wasn’t on a Friday afternoon where I would then have all weekend to fix it – it happened on a Monday morning. Gee, thanks. I formatted the drive and began rebuilding. But the reality was, I couldn’t stop working to do the rebuild all at once. It reminded me of when my husband and I moved from our first apartment to our first house. We moved most of it ourselves over our last month of the lease agreement. While it was endless and exhausting, at the end of the month we had very few boxes left to unpack. Same thing happened here. I started by thinking about what I needed immediately. The beautiful thing was some systems just ran. My blog post was written and scheduled so that just happened, certain social media posts for […] Continue reading
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