You know and love the Bucket of Responses: the mission-related things you’ll say when staff guys throw useless pleasantries your way. Having trouble filling up your bucket unprompted? Be ready
You know and love the Bucket of Responses: the mission-related things you’ll say when staff guys throw useless pleasantries your way. Having trouble filling up your bucket unprompted? Be ready
We all love the Information Bus. It rolls down Understanding Highway at a healthy speed, plowing through yellow lights along the way. Hop aboard! We want our friends and partners
Quick recap from part 1: Our conversations are covered in grid squares. Guide your audience into the right place but don’t go deeper than you (and they) need. Let’s keep
You already know we should carry a map. Can you use it? We’ve all had some land navigation training, right? A quick review: maps are graphic representations of the Earth,
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My wife and I went shooting the other day. The target just wouldn’t take the rounds. We were shooting great but the stupid just wouldn’t take the rounds as we