25 ways to make yourself unpopular: #4 Provide too much information

Updated on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:49AM by Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant

Too much information is such a ubiquitous problem that it even has its own three letter abbreviation: TMI – although that is usually applied in the context of someone online telling you something that you really didn’t want to know. However, it’s also a problem experienced by anyone who runs a team, or who requires information in order to take a decision.

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25 ways to make yourself unpopular: #3 Provide too little information

If you really want to make yourself unpopular, then not providing enough information is a sure-fire way of going about it. Whether you’re a teacher, say, advising your Principal, or a consultant advising your client, you need to provide sufficient information – whether you’ve been asked for it or not.

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25 ways to make yourself unpopular: #2 Provide timely information

You would think that providing timely information would be just the thing to get you applauded. However, as the song from Porgy and Bess tells us, it ain’t necessarily so. It really all depends on what the information is, and to whom you’re making it available.

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