RE: Reverse Performance Review -- MIDRANGE-L

Al,
        Written presentation skills are important, so important, in my humble
opinion, that some very good ideas never get implemented because they are
poorly presented.  You can work on your end of it by brushing up on your
summarization and highlighting skills.  Perhaps you can bounce your
presentations off of co-workers who will give you an honest opinion of the
clarity of your presentations and the ability to get your point across as
succinctly as possible.  If co-workers aren't available or aren't right in
your situation, bounce your ideas off of family members or friends.  It's
important to get honest feedback otherwise you won't be able to refine your
work and become a better presenter.  In my experience, either you have a
knack for it or you have to work at it through repetition and revision.
        The fact that your boss expects better results but won't give you the 
tools
with which to achieve them is tough.  We have all worked with bosses like
that in our careers fortunately, they usually end up getting bounced.  But
in the meantime, you need to get him to realize that you need some of these
tools to create better work.  My recommendation would be to get your
presentation refined, generate the output as best you can with your current
tools and then present it to your boss mentioning that it would look nicer
if you had access to some of the "modern" tools.  Make sure you refine it
first, otherwise he has ammunition to shoot you down.  I know I'm getting a
bit long-winded but I hope this helps.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of MacWheel99@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:03 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Reverse Performance Review


One of the complaints is that my presentation materials for various
proposals
are not as nice looking & clearly communicating concepts as my boss would
like me to use, but at the same time I do not have access to good quality
presentation tools at the office.  They want me to do my work from twinax
environment.  They do not want me to have access to PC at the office.

So I am using SEU at work & e-mail from home & scribble on web page reprints
& it does not really clearly communicate as technology is now able to help
us
do.

What I can work on is becoming less wordy & doing more abstract summaries in
front of proposals & delaying passing on proposals until they look more
polished.

One thing I might look into is if I can create via Word some text in HTML
format to be sent my boss, or other co-workers via e-mail attachment, such
that they click on some underlined link to get at the more detail only if
they want it.

I also need periodic review of what tools are commonplace to the end users
who are on PCs so that my attachments will be in a form that meshes well
with
what they now have.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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