213- The Secret Excel Skills That Landed Craig Hatmaker Dream Jobs and Big Budget Approvals

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Craig Hatmaker With over 40 years of experience, Craig Hatmaker is a results-driven IT professional skilled in optimizing technology investments. He has held director roles at global companies like Smithfield Foods and Canon. Now retired, Craig remains passionate about helping organizations solve business challenges through strategic solutions like his pioneering 5G methodology for component-based Excel modeling. His expertise lies in creatively addressing stakeholder needs to gain approval for initiatives. The Secret Excel Skills That Landed Craig Hatmaker Dream Jobs and Big Budget Approvals Have you ever wondered what skills IT leaders need to get their high-priority projects approved? In this engaging conversation, retired IT director Craig Hatmaker reveals how he leveraged little-known Excel abilities to land dream jobs and gain executive trust. Craig discusses how relationships, business cases and timing are crucial, but an advanced understanding of Excel allowed him to regularly solve problems and spotlight opportunities. Learn Craig’s formula for becoming seen as a solution provider rather than just a cost center, and ensuring your initiatives always address the real concerns of decision-makers.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today talking with Craig Hatmaker.
0:13.4	Is that right?
0:14.2	That's correct.
0:15.1	Yes, the younger.
0:17.1	The younger of the ones somehow.
0:19.1	Are those, is that an encyclopedia set in the background uh national
0:24.0	geographics oh yes yes at geos so when we moved my father out of his um his uh old house in
0:33.9	Princeton Massachusetts you know where the pilgrims came and all that stuff.
0:38.3	He had some crazy, yeah, crazy, where you go? Wait, no, you mean, not in Princeton.
0:45.0	I was, we, first of all, we visited my daughter in Maine, and then we just kind of migrated on down
0:51.3	the East Coast, went through all of the New England states.
0:56.2	And also, we just got back last night.
0:59.0	So to make sure that I could be here in time for this event.
1:02.8	That's how important I am.
1:04.4	This is-
1:04.7	You are.
1:05.2	You are that important.
1:06.2	You are the most important person in the world right now.
1:08.6	Where in Maine, where in Main are you? My favorite state.
1:12.2	Brunswick and Port, which is just a little bit north of Portland.
1:15.3	Okay, great.
1:16.1	I lived in Kenny Bunkport for a year.
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