How to Add Animation to Your PowerPoint Presentation
May 24,
2018
Yes, I know, if you go to a lot of meetings you are probably sick and tired of seeing yet another PowerPoint slide deck presentation! Boring! Boring! Boring! If people are sliding under the table when you are giving your PowerPoint presentation you need to liven them up a little bit and incorporating animation is […]
How Storytelling Helps Make a Personal Connection with an Audience
May 22,
2018
Connecting with an audience is a critical business skill. We all need it when we try to get a point across to someone else. We may be teaching a new idea or skill, explaining the importance of a new strategic initiative, or maybe trying to persuade a prospect to become a client. In my recent […]
Customer Service Chat Support: Top Survival Tactics
Mar 8,
2018
Imagine you are the customer service representative working the live chat support the day of the company holiday party. It’s pretty quiet in the office, but you get an incoming chat that says HAPPY HOLIDAYS! You think “wow…so kind”, but then you notice no reply and eventually it ends. Immediately afterwards, you get another, and […]
How to Use Affinity Diagrams to Bring Order to Chaos
Mar 7,
2018
One critical aspect of brainstorming and other idea-gathering processes is that one must not judge the ideas as they are presented. After that gathering phase, though, the ideas are useless if no patterns or relationships can be discovered. One good solution for that is the Affinity Diagram. The process was identified in the 1960s by […]
The SQL Server Interview Questions that Matter
Feb 23,
2018
If you’re worried about interviewing for a SQL Server job, here’s some advice from the former head of an IT department on what matters (along with examples from the three critical areas where you need to have answers ready). As an instructor for Learning Tree’s Querying SQL Server 2014 and 2016 courses, I’ve worked with […]
