For management executives, the quarterly meeting could be a dream or a nightmare. If you and your department have done well, it is time to thump that chest and declare how you are the best thing since beer. But if your performance figures are not up to the mark, it is time to pick from the 101 reasons to weasel out of a meeting. In this post, I would like to provide some tips on how to get out of that dreaded corporate scenario, using what I will conveniently call dressed-up reporting.
Dressed-up reporting, as you would have guessed, is all about presenting your performance data in a manner to make the drop in performance unidentifiable. Of course, you can’t hide poor performance for long. It is bound to be noticed sooner or later, but isn’t it better to be confronted in a closed one-to-one meeting with just your boss than a room full of your peers? Here are some simple tips and tricks that you can use for dressing up your poor performance.
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Ritesh
March 3, 2011, 10:28 pmI have been following your blog and those are some excellent articles and graphs. Amazing stuff…
Sanket Nadhani
March 5, 2011, 3:31 amThanks so much for your kind words 🙂
Dave
March 5, 2011, 3:23 amSanket,
As Ritesh’s manager, I sincerely appreciate knowing the tricks he might employ in the next quarterly review. 😉
Dave
Sanket Nadhani
March 5, 2011, 3:32 amHaha! I don’t know what to say 🙂
Suneel
June 23, 2011, 2:21 pmThe way you put in these tips are amazing Sanket. Do you really think IIMs or B-Schools do not teach these to the future managers? Ha ha but I will surely consider your tips while making my revenue projections and current status. 🙂
Sanket Nadhani
June 23, 2011, 2:52 pmThey do? I need to get into a B-School soon 🙂
Thanks for checking in Suneel.
Julien
September 6, 2012, 10:01 pmHi Sanket,
This is a very nice and funny blog post. Good to identify how people might be covering during meetings.
I just have one comment:
> If you are reporting the monthly sales generated by your team in 2010, chances are you would pick a column chart.
I beg to differ here: any time-related KPI should be represented with a line chart.