Business: Ten Fun Ways to Liven up Any Presentation

Ten Fun Ways to Liven up Any Presentation

Written by Sandra Schrift

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Ten Fun Ways to Liven up Any Presentation

Most of us would agree that having humor in our lives increases rapport, strengthens our relationships and overcomes communication barriers. People who work in a positive, often playful environment are more likely to stay. Productivity and creativity increase while stress is reduced. We just feel better after a good laugh. Think funny!

1. Open with a humorous story. . I remember repparttar time repparttar 104297 lights when out and I fell off repparttar 104298 stage. I wasn’t hurt and quickly said, Now I will take questions from repparttar 104299 floor. I’m at my best when taking questions in repparttar 104300 dark. Before you can be funny, you must learn to see funny. Find repparttar 104301 humor around you, in your life every day. The lady who takes an aisle seat rather tan sit next to repparttar 104302 window . . . doesn’t want to mess up her hair. Practice telling repparttar 104303 story out loud, and cut out any parts that aren't crucial. As Shakespeare so wisely said, "Brevity is repparttar 104304 soul of wit."

2. Use props (candy bars, hats, funny faces, etc.) Props can be used as a metaphor or an analogy for a point you are introducing. They get your creative juices working while providing an anchor for your audience to focus on.

3. Cartoons use your own or others a picture saves a 1000 words. Put cartoons on an overhead or use as part of a PowerPoint presentation.

4. Humor - should be relevant to your topic. Tom Peters said, I deeply believe in humor; not in jokes. Humor is spectacular. Humor relieves anxiety and tension, serves as outlet for hostility and anger, and provides a healthy escape from reality. It lightens heaviness related to critical illness, trauma, disfigurement, and death. It comes as no surprise that many people are utilizing humor to deal with repparttar 104305 trying times. But is repparttar 104306 humor timely? Is it appropriate?

Two Reasons to use Timesheet Software

Written by Mark Nemtsas

Two Reasons to use Timesheet Software This short paper will expand on two key reasons to move to a computerized timesheet system at your company. There are more than two reasons of course, but these will be expanded on at a later date. The two key reasons to be discussed here are Timesheet Efficiency, and Timesheet Automation. Timesheet Efficiency is repparttar

concept of a single data entry exercise done accurately and quickly. Timesheet Automation is repparttar 104296

simple concept of managing timesheet information electronically rather than on paper. When taken individually both these concepts make a compelling argument to move to electronic timesheets, taken together you should be asking yourself why you aren't kicking off repparttar 104297

process today.

Timesheet Efficiency When I started out my working career in consulting we had paper timesheets. These were (supposedly) to be filled in daily, submitted weekly, and data from them entered into repparttar 104298 accounting system monthly. However, people being people, repparttar 104299 accountant only checked them once a month, so they were generally only submitted once a month, and thus usually only filled in once a month when prompted by project managers. This resulted in inaccurate and late timesheet information.

This affected billing, time and materials projects would take up to four weeks to be invoiced, and thus it could be up to 60 days before payment was received. Why then are some companies constantly challenged with getting employees to accurately complete their timesheets while other firms have no problems? The difference is usually leadership and data ease of data entry. Most consulting companies employ skilled intelligent people, and a manager who fills in his timesheet information promptly and accurately can legitimately expect his staff to do so. However if repparttar 104300 system is cumbersome and difficult to use then there will be constant conflict.

Easy to use computerized timesheet systems mean more employees are successfully filling out timesheets as they work rather than writing repparttar 104301 time into a diary or calendar and then transferring repparttar 104302 information at repparttar 104303 end of repparttar 104304 week (or month). It has been well proven that debtors are easier to manager and projects more easily monitored repparttar 104305 closer that timesheet information is processed and invoiced to repparttar 104306 time repparttar 104307 work is carried out. It is just much more simple to collect all your billable hours (more chargeable time!) if employees record their work as they do it.

Of course data entry is just one side of things. Processing repparttar 104308 information is just as important. Internal discipline and company policies must be set to ensure that all information is collected by repparttar 104309 time you have decided is repparttar 104310 deadline. Whether this is Friday 5:00pm, or Monday 9:00am, deadlines must be followed and enforced. Timesheet software with built in workgroup functionality like messaging, timesheet approval, live monitoring, and so on can greatly enhance this process.

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