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March 31, 2007
Using the Calendar as a Monitoring Tool
One of the techniques I am using to monitor the various projects I am working on is to simply put them as a banner in my electronic calendar. To do this, I simply put the name of the project in the heading and put the due date of the project in the location.
If somebody else is the point person on the project besides me, I put their name or intials in parentheses after the due date. For example, I may put "Write Blog Posting" in the heading and put 4/7/07 in the location (Chris)
In the notes section of the appointment, I'll jot down any notes or progress notes with the date noted to help keep me on track for a long term project. Again, if someone else is leading the project, I use this section to track the progress of the project from my conversations with the project lead.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Chris
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March 23, 2007
Leader Talk Blog by Scott McLeod
This past month, I was approached by Scott McLeod at the University of Minnesota to participate as a monthly blogger for his blog
Leader Talk has bloggers from across the globe, all focused upon the topic of educational leadership by educational leaders.
I'm humbled by the opportunity to be a part of this.
My blog entry is Out of The Sandbox.
Scott's doing a great service and facilitating reach for educational leaders. If you are intrigued by the idea of blogging but not sure how you as a school executive can make use of blogging-see how many of the contributors use blogging as a communication tool-almost like a "reference-able" electronic newsletter to faculty and the community.
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March 16, 2007
Three Great Lessons on Email Management
You've heard me rave before about Michael Hyatt and his blog.
This past month, he posted three different blog entries on getting on top of one's email.
Check them out.
Now I gotta go back and use his lesson two:read-decide, read-decide, read-decide.
Chris
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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March 11, 2007
Edgy article on Gen-X preparation for leadership
The January 2007 issue of CIO magazine has an edgy article from Deborah Gilburgh, called "Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate". What I found interesting in this article were Ms. Gilburgh's assertions about what she perceives as strengths and weaknesses of Gen-X leaders and the passionate responses from readers.
It's audience is for the Chief Information Officer (both corporate and public sectors), yet I'll continue to believe that cross pollination with other industries and markets is useful to all of us.
BTW-I've included a link if you want to scan some of CIO's articles and blogs on career and "career-boosting"
Chris
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March 4, 2007
Stopping PowerPoint Abuse
I ran across this link a week ago while working on ways to improve my presentation skills. It's from BNET.com, which is a pretty terrific aggregator of management information written in a short concise style. This link talks about how to use presentation software (focused on PowerPoint, but it fits for any presentation software that you and I use.
I especially like tips 3, 5, and 6.
If you do a lot of presentations or want to get better, I'd suggest also that you look at Beyond Bullet Points, by Cliff Atkinson.
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