Overcommunicating May be Good

 Not when politicians do it, perhaps, when you are at the receiving end, but in most other situations, I would say. Good because people don't necessarily know as much about your situation as you think. To me, I am the greatest thing that happened to the planet (!), but to others, I may be just a speck of dust. I am exaggerating, to make a point.

On social media, where scrolling is the norm, and attention spans are even less than in a classroom (contradictory as it may sound), explaining a post/picture is probably better than a cryptic caption that does not say much, and assumes that people know the context of what you are talking about- could be a new job, a change of place you live in, a new relationship, or multiple other things. 

So here is some (unsolicited) advice- communicate, communicate, communicate. You may find the results are pleasant when you do. 

Best Presentations

What were your best presentations, according to you?

I can remember two or three from my student days-

1. During my MBA days, we made a presentation for Prof. SK Roy's OB course. It was the review of a book called The Tyranny of Testing-a book about why IQ type multiple Choice Tests may not be the best way to test many good things. We worked hard (it was a group presentation), and I remember we did get a lot of applause.

2. The second was a solo by me, for another course, Effective Communication during MBA at IIM Bangalore. I chose Romantic Poets as my theme, and with the aid of Keats, Shelley, Byron and so forth, made a very interesting presentation, I was told by some of the audience.

3. A third that I remember was during a Project Management assignment in a Ph.D. course at Clemson. We decided to present CPM and PERT through a project that James Bond had-On Her Majesty's Secret Service. We watched the film's video and made a PERT chart out of it.

Presentations can be an interesting learning tool, that you may remember long after the lectures have been forgotten.