The current economic climate is tough, that's not news. In these tough times we see more and more companies making cuts and reductions in headcount. Reducing headcount is a difficult business decision but it is an even more difficult message to deliver from one person to another. Yet it is a fact of business and something all managers and organisations should be very capable of doing effectively.
Two recent situations and one past experience remind me of how not to deliver a tough message and what the people involved could've done better.
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You’ve been asked to deliver a presentation. What’s the first thing you do?
Open PowerPoint, choose your template and look at the first
slide. You take a moment and then
enter your name on the first slide and perhaps a title. You pause for another moment and maybe
add a slide with the title ‘Agenda’.
Then there is of course there is the final slide, you add that too. All along you want your presentation to
stand out, to be great, to be memorable.
If you really do want your presentation to stand out and be memorable
you need to ditch the slides.
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