Top Three Mistakes Underperforming PR Boards Make
Reflecting on my work advising PR businesses on growth and profitability, and on the firms I have been part of and have run, it strikes me that firms in need of improvement tend to have the same three major problems crop up at Board level, time and again. The number...Are you a “pen-down” person?
Ever heard the expression “a pen-down person”? It’s one of the quickest ways to find yourself written off , in a meeting. It refers to the observation that, whilst some people in meetings are busy taking notes and contributing, others put their pen down (or stop...Board Papers – When Does Brevity Become Sophistry?
Short Board papers are better than long ones, but both have the power to mislead.
Using PowerPoint in Board Documents
Many organisations do not allow the use of PowerPoint in Board documents. But if you follow these 4 golden rules, you can make PowerPoint an effective Board document tool.
Board Papers – Cause and Effect, or Experience and Gut Feel?
Imagine you are reading a Board or Committee paper, covering progress on a significant, but nebulous project. Launching a new marketing campaign; a new product line – that sort of thing. How do you know if the project is genuinely on track, and whether...“Traffic Lights” Reporting – Two Traps and One Improvement UPDATE
Traffic light reporting looks intuitive but can be misleading
Promotion to management – the right conversation to have
So you have decided to invest in management capacity – a wise choice, may I say – and you are doing it by promoting a rising star in your business, giving them some degree of management responsibility. That’s great, but beware – you and that...Do your Board templates encourage group-think and middle-way thinking?
Board papers can suffer from group-think, because of the filtering process needed to achieve the correct length and template “fit”.