A conversation with my family prompted today’s post. We were talking about average square meter prices of real estate in Limoges in the heart of France. So my mother goes : “The average price per square meter is 1,000 euros in Limoges. So we can calculate for your grandfather how much the house is worth”.…
Using averages : what real estate prices can teach Compensation pros
October 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
How to make the most of the Skills feature on your LinkedIn profile
October 14, 2012 by 6 Comments
Have you visited your LinkedIn profile recently ? Adding skills to your profile has been around for a while now, but it was vastly under-used until a new feature was introduced in the past few weeks : the possibility to endorse others (and therefore be endorsed) for these skills. There is more than meets the…
Partners and generalizations in compensation communication
September 30, 2012 by 5 Comments
A quick one in today’s Sunday Skills. I have already written about the importance of using the right words when communicating compensation matters, and a recent post at HRzone made me react. The post covers news from Deloitte about the backlash against excessive executive compensation and how about half of senior executives in the UK…
A graph based on a pivot table – can it make it easier for you to grow your credibility?
September 16, 2012 by 4 Comments
Did you know that you can create a graph based on a pivot table in Excel ? This is a little-known yet highly effective tool to quickly visualise aggregate data. Simply create your pivot table based on your data source. I advise creating the pivot in a new worksheet/tab in your spreadsheet. Here is a…
A little known Excel trick that makes your data sheet stand out
September 2, 2012 by 1 Comment
“Waow ! That’s a nice feature – very visual ! I wonder how they did that…” That was my reaction a few months ago while reading an article with a screenshot of a Marketing excel sheet. The feature ? A cool, very simple graph showing a trend of data in a single cell. The sheet…
A good graph is worth a thousand words
July 8, 2012 by 2 Comments
One of my favourite blogs is Storytelling with data. Cole Nussbaumer from the People Analytics team at Google does a great job of explaining how we present data in a graphical manner can underline and reinforce our message. With time, I have started doing more presentations for Boards and other top executives, as well as…
