MOC Shocks
Whoever said managers do nothing but presentations can move ahead and prove that i am going to become a worst manager. well, atlease my grades in managerial oral communication says so. i got a measly 2.2 out of 4.33 and recieved a ‘C’ grade. Baaah !!! MOC was one of few soft courses we have in first year. If one can’t get good grades in these soft courses then one is doomed to get a lousy CGPA at the end of first year. Since i dont have a 20 month workex under my ass, if i dont get cgpa above 3 i might be in a trouble later at the time of placements.
well, right now the botherance is not about the final placements though. Afterall, I for one am here to experiment and not to mug. but, when you put in sincere efforts to improve your oral or overall communication skills and at the end you recieve a ‘C’ for your ppt, somehow i wasnt recepetive to the whole idea. May be my OC really sucks (pun not intended !), may be not.
on a more lighter note, going by “Dilbert’s principle” i should be reaching higher levels of organization ladder than any of my OC GOD friends here. hehe :))
Research Rags
For a discerning reader with a vocabulary of straw mat, the above title may not be confusing. Otherwise, you might as well take the Rags as noun while what i mean here is a verb as in ‘Ragging’
Ok, enough of introduction. Let me get to the point. We had this course called ‘Research Methods’ in this term. The aim of the course is to prepare us to make Research proposals, researches (marketing or otherwise). Now the curriculam for this course is something out of world for most of us. May be that is because Researchers think differently from managers.
The 3rd session of RM was about naming the research. For once i felt that this session is of no use. The prof. started by naming a project with 5 words. then he modified it to 10 words. then he added a couple more. finally we have a research title as long as a small paragraph. The justification he gave for this crap is that ‘upon reading the title you should be in a position to say what it is all about’ :-o. I always thought there are somethings called as abstract and keywords.
So the next time when you a title like this, comparision of level of oral communication skills in premature managers located in central India before and after Managerial Oral Communication Training using leptokuritc curves and rBeta dont shy away from the report. Who knows, the report might as well explain why your pant has zip instead of buttons…
Tada.
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!