Creativity and the Accountant

Creating

Let’s start with a throwback, for fun’s sake: I work with plenty of people from financial industries.  I also work with engineers, public health researchers, and others who would not be in job typically considered “creative.”  Often, clients from these walks of life kvetch that they are not creative, and say that it’s probably why…

Talking to strangers

Confidence, Connecting

Much like any other skill, we need to practice talking to be good at it. You don’t need to sweat buckets over complex presentations or formal speeches to become a good talker.  You just need to talk with people.  Lots of people.  Different people.  I know some great presenters who are surprisingly poor at just talking with…

Things don’t always go according to plan

Shipping

Actually, things rarely go according to plan. Take today, for instance.  Take this very post. I had planned to re-launch my blog today after months of inactivity.  I had temporarily suspended active posting while I re-vamped my website and created a raft of new content ready for regular publication.  Planning, writing, designing, building – for a…

Editing Heavily

Presenting

It is hard to chop content out of your presentation.  You worked on it, you had a vision of where you wanted to go and how you would go about getting there.  You filled that presentation chock full of ideas.  It was loaded with stuff that you wanted to share with your audience.  You crafted…