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1. How many hours of TV do fathers between the ages of 25-34 watch each week? a. 10 hours b. 15 hours c. 20 hours d. Almost 26 hours 2. How many hours of TV does the average non-working spouse watch each week? a. 20 hours b. 25 hours c. 30 hours d. Almost 48 hours 3. How many acts of violence will the average child have witnessed on TV by age 18? a. 25,000 b. 50,000 c. 75,000 d. 180,000 4. How much time does the average father spend giving meaningful feedback to his children? a. 1 minute per day b. 10 minutes per week c. 20 minutes per week d. 30 minutes per week 5. How much time each day does the average married couple spend giving meaningful feedback to each other? a. Less than 4 minutes b. About 15 minutes c. Approximately 20 minutes d. Slightly more than 30 minutes 6. A psychological validation is a specific type of supportive feedback that sustains a person in some way. An invalidation is a critical or sarcastic comment that is hurtful or demeaning. On average, how many invalidations does the average teenager receive each day from: parents, friends, teachers and siblings? a. 11 b. 21 c. 57 d. 113 7. How many invalidations would the average teenager therefore receive during his or her teenage years (13-19) from the four sources mentioned in question 5? (Do the math) 8. How many validations are you giving your young employees each day to offset the invalidations they are receiving? 9. Some psychologists believe that one effectively delivered validation can offset up to ten invalidations. How many validations are you giving your family members and your employees? How many invalidations do you give or permit others to give in your presence? 10. On average, how much feedback (supportive and corrective) do you give each of your employees each day? a. 1 minute per day b. 10 minutes per week c. 20 minutes per week d. 30 minutes per week ANSWERS: 1. d. Almost 26 hours (This is amazing!) 2. d. Almost 48 hours (This is even more amazing!) 3. d. 200,000 (according to the American Academy of Pediatrics) 4. a. 1 minute per day (This is sad, but it explains what is happening to many of our youth.) 5. a. Less than 4 minutes (This explains the 50% divorce rate.) 6. d. 113 (Unbelievable!) 7. 288,715 (Unimaginable!) 8. An effective manager will take every opportunity to deliver validations to all employees, especially those who need them most such as the younger population. 9. An effective manager will not only eliminate invalidations from his or her leadership style, but also will work to ensure that the organizational culture doesn't permit that type of behavior. This is as true at home as it is at work. 10. The needs of feedback are situational and individualistic. Each person's needs are different; it depends on the specific person and the type of situation. Clearly, workers need ample feedback each day from their manager merely to break even. And providing this leadership skill development will help if you want them to resolve problems and/or make progress.
If employees and family members are the most important people in our lives, why are we spending almost 26 hours per week in front of the television? We should be providing more than one minute of our day giving meaningful feedback to our youth. What if those numbers were reversed? What would happen to the problems in our society? Perhaps we ought to introduce ourselves to our employees and families and assist in their leadership skill development. My colleagues and I get asked a lot about licensing. Frankly, Microsoft doesn’t have a great reputation for keeping it simple. And to be totally transparent – I, like many of my colleagues, would usually rather stick a fork in my eye that talk about it because it can get complicated. And confusing. And just…ugh. So you can imagine my joy when I was asked to write a newsletter editorial about simplifying licensing. Exactly. Then I had a very enlightening conversation with Terry Choquette, Licensing Marketing Manager at Microsoft and she pointed me to a few resources that got back to the basics and laid it all out very simply. I like simple. And I decided that this simple information was as blog worthy as it was newsletter worthy. While details about software licensing is not everybody’s favourite reading material, stick with me on this. Ways to buy a licenseFirst of all, there are 3 ways to buy a license as illustrated in the slide below: a full packaged product from a retail store, an OEM product on a new computer or a volume agreement from a reseller.
Volume licensing agreementsWhile you could simply walk into the nearest Best Buy or Future Shop and make your purchase, most organizations that need 5 or more licenses can benefit best from volume licensing agreements. Why? Well, there are some pricing advantages, there are more flexible options based on size and type of business, payment structure, ownership of software, etc., there are additional use rights for cross-language and reimaging machines, and there are use rights to new product versions, support, training, tools, etc., with Software Assurance (more about this below). For this post, I’m going to limit my discourse to those organizations who want to license less than 250 devices or users, which I would hazard a guess applies to most of you reading this blog. If you need help with licensing options for 250 devices/users or more, lemme know and I’ll put you in touch with people who can help you or you can check out these online resources. Below is a great 3.5 minute video that lays out the volume licensing options that are part of the Microsoft Open License program for small and medium sized businesses: (Please visit the site to view this video) Basically, there are 3 volume licensing agreement options: Open License, Open Value and Open Value Subscription. Now if you want more detail than the video gives (you did watch it right? C’mon it’s only 3.5 minutes long and it’s pretty entertaining!), you’ll want to take a look at the Open License Program Guide. It has a very useful chart on page 8 which compares what you get with an Open License agreement compared to an Open Value agreement. Software AssuranceSoftware Assurance is something that can be added to your volume license agreement which provides 24x7 support, deployment planning services, training, and the latest software releases. Although once viewed as simply an insurance policy for free software upgrades, Software Assurance has now been recognized by analysts as an essential tool for getting the most out of your licensing purchase. Below is a screen shot from an interactive PDF listing the benefits of Software Assurance with each type of licensing agreement.
For more information about Software Assurance and what it can do for your organization, check out the Software Assurance site. Let me know if this was helpful!
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