14 When you want to see how much extra time you’ve now got
by Andy Bounds
The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques to Make You Unstoppable
- Epilogue
- Title page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 How to prepare communication that works
- SECTION B Get more done more quickly How to save one month per year
- 3 When you want to find the time to communicate brilliantly
- 4 When you want to impress senior audiences when you haven’t much time
- 5 When you want to ensure people remember your key messages
- 7 When you want to have better, quicker meetings and conference calls
- 8 When you want to only attend the meetings you need to
- 9 When you want to prepare for meetings in the right way
- 10 When you want to ensure meetings generate actions, not just discussion topics
- 11 When you want to run punchy, interesting and effective update meetings (or not have them)
- 12 When you want to get a quick response to an FYI email
- 13 When you want to empty your inbox
- 14 When you want to see how much extra time you’ve now got
- SECTION C Persuade more people to say “yes” How to convince others to do what you want
- 17 When you want to align your agenda to everyone else’s
- 18 When you want to get an enthusiastic “yes” very quickly
- 19 When you want to prove you’re someone’s best option
- 20 When you want to make a sale
- 21 When you want to write a winning proposal or sales presentation
- 22 When you want to stand out from the crowd
- 24 When you want to use the best communication channel to get a quick “yes”
- 25 When you want to create titles that instantly grab people
- 26 When you want to write eye-catching introductions
- 27 When you want to use analogies to make your point
- 28 When you want to structure your communications so they’re more persuasive
- 30 When you want to get a job interview
- SECTION D Enjoy your job more How to make work more fun
- 32 When you want to build powerful relationships quickly
- 33 When you want to get things right first time
- 34 When you want to deliver interesting presentations that impress everyone
- 35 When you want to use “word pictures” to help people remember things
- 36 When you want to use initials to help people remember things
- 38 When you want to enjoy using PowerPoint
- 39 When you want to create great visuals to enhance your message
- Step 1: Improve your title
- Step 2: Prioritize your points
- Step 3: Remove as many low-priority points as possible
- Step 4: Remove the unimportant words
- Step 5: Insert slide-builds
- Step 6: Make the slides look nice
- Useful Tip 1: Prepare two slide-sets, not one
- Useful Tip 2: Preparing “Compare and Contrast” slides
- 40 When you want to start a presentation brilliantly (when your audience is large and/or doesn’t know you)
- 41 When you want to appear polished, even if you haven’t practised much
- 42 When you want to prepare for – and deliver – an excellent Q&A session
- 43 When you want to ensure your important initiatives succeed
- 44 When you want to have good two-way conversations
- 45 When you want to enjoy attending networking events
- 46 When you want to help people read your documents quickly
- 47 When you want to improve people’s performance through observation and coaching
- 48 When you want to improve people’s performance after annual reviews
- SECTION E Eliminate the negatives How to remove your communication frustrations
- Why This Matters
- 50 When you want to stop saying “no” too quickly
- 52 When you want to come up with good ideas, but can’t think of any
- 53 When you want to remove someone’s concerns about what you’re planning to do
- 54 When you want to remove someone’s final reason for saying “no”
- 55 When you want to get good outcomes from challenging conversations
- 56 When you want to stop procrastinating about initiating challenging conversations
- 58 When you want to stop diluting other people’s messages
- 59 When you want to stop hating presentations
- 60 When you want to avoid people instantly doubting your credibility
- 61 When you want to stop wasting your time with people who can’t make decisions
- 62 When you want to prevent avoidable disasters
- 63 When you want to stop saying irrelevant stuff
- 64 When you want to break the pattern of hearing useful ideas, but doing nothing with them
- Conclusion: Build your momentum
- And for more help . . .
- Acknowledgments
- About Andy Bounds
14
When you want to see how much extra time you’ve now got
Let’s see how much time this section will save you. Copy each chapter’s time saving into this table and add them up:
When you add up your savings, you’ll see you’ve a pretty big total. Remember, 50 minutes a day equals 200 hours a year. That’s an entire month!
There’ll never be a better opportunity to start saving this time than now, when it’s fresh. And, the great thing is, because you communicate all the time, it’s relatively easy to identify the first time you can try it (which, as you saw with the chapter 2 “Buy bread” example, is critical).
So, in the next few minutes, you’ll be talking, emailing, writing . . . Which technique will you use first?
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