Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, simple project reporting guidance.

And we got something special for you today.

Here we go. Before we start off today we've got to tell people because they're going to hear

the audio quality it's going to be different yeah so I'm not well I'm not

because we got an audience today.

It's the first time we've ever done it.

We're at a conference, and we have not only attendees of the conference,

but folks who've come in, who aren't at the conference,

to participate in this first ever

podcast public podcast right

so hi everybody

hi cool okay so that's cool so that's the first

if there ever been any voice i guess technically jon Locke, the interview John Locke, we had John's voice on, but otherwise it's just been you and me.

So, yeah, this is cool. So, pretty cool.

So, I apologize for the lack of the audio quality, but this is going to be fun.

So please bear with us.

Today's topics I find kind of interesting because it seems, I don't know, a little simple, right? Something we've talked about before it's kind of one of those kind of standard things that great managers do but yeah they don't right so I feel sometimes that we insult people's intelligence, but we got to talk about it.

It reminds me of the story that you shared me one time about, remember the executive at that consulting firm who had the problem with the admin,

so let you share that real.

My favorite story about managers struggling with basic stuff, right?

Day-to-day things.

And this is really, it's probably one of the key thoughts that you and I have had in terms of how

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