Telling Your Story: A Key to Success
Then do your best to tell that story, broken into several succinct, timely and meaningful stories. And ask for feedback from your boss.
“Is this of use to you, or is there something different that you’d like to hear from me?” Telling your story in a way that makes sense to the folks that need to hear it may be the key to your in-plant’s success. And from what I’m hearing, it is one of the areas that many of us overlook.
Ray Chambers, CGCM, MBA, has invested over 30 years managing and directing printing plants, copy centers, mail centers and award-winning document management facilities in higher education and government.
Most recently, Chambers served as vice president and chief information officer at Juniata College. Chambers is currently a doctoral candidate studying Higher Education Administration at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). His research interests include outsourcing in higher education and its impact on support services in higher education and managing support services. He also consults (Chambers Management Group) with leaders in both the public and private sectors to help them understand and improve in-plant printing and document services operations.
