Six Principles to Optimize Your Results and Your Career (Presentation Slides)
Just a quick post to share the slides of a presentation I recently gave on six principles that can help you optimize both your results and your career.
The material, which should be familar to long-time Kellblog readers, is largely based on posts that I've written over the years and the last slide of the deck has links to specific posts. The six principles are:
- Answer the effing question (ATFQ). Not answering questions wastes time, frustrates coworkers and executives, and can stall your career.
- Know your in-memory analytics. Know what numbers you should know in your sleep, why, and then know them. Executives will often use this as a basic form of competency testing.
- Understand the three fundamental layers of management (manager, director, VP). Learn how to think like the next level. It's not that easy.
- Write actionable emails. Write messages that are written to be responded to, quickly and tersely. Have empathy for the recipient.
- Be a simplifier. The fastest way to get stuck as a project manager (or equivalent) is to be seen as someone who complexifies simple things instead of simplifying complex things.
- Follow the three golden rules of feedack. It has to honest. It has to be timely. And, the tough one, it has to be kind.
You can download a PDF version.
