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Roy
Right then. As you were all informed yesterday, we have a proposal to pull together and it falls to me (who better?) to marshal the troops. For many of you, this will be the first time that you will have seen a document like this. I, obviously, am extremely familiar with documents of this type and expert at fashioning a winning proposal. In short, and particularly for those snowmen amongst us, we need to set out what we will do to meet the client’s requirements ie. delivering toys to the children of the world and how we will do it. The activity we propose will need to be costed and set into a timescale. We will need to bind all the materials to ensure proper presentation. Those of you who are familiar with my work all know, one of my many mantras is presentation, presentation, presentation and more presentation. Judge a man by the shine of his shoes and the touch of his cloth.
In keeping with the elf tradition that many hands make light work – just take a leaf from the book of our brother elves who helped the shoemaker - I have divided the task into manageable chunks, a tactic at the heart of all inspired project management, so please find below a list of tasks and those responsible.
- Mrs Claus – develop a strategic approach
- Elves – costs and timelines – preferably in a Gant chart
- Fairies – creatives to support the ideas
- Snowmen – binding presentation materials.
We need to make this happen by December 21 people as our glorious leader Santa will be pitching our ideas to a select panel of children on December 22. Santa, as is always the case, will be accompanied by the Reindeer (I must stress this was against my better judgement – you’re much safer with an elf following up the rear, I always say). Anyhoo – all hands to the pump and don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. The sooner you let me know, the sooner I can do your job for you.
Tally ho,
Head elf.
I agree entirely with your plan, well done as always Roy! I will get straight onto that Gant chart - whoopee.
yaaaawn. Is it feed time yet??
What's with all the fuss? Why the big panic? Just tell us where we need to be and when, and Team Reindeer will do the rest! You can spend all the time you want on your gant charts, but everyone knows that we're the main attraction,a dn we're the ones who are going to win this pitch for us.
Can you imagine Christmas without Reindeer? Exactly.It's not going to happen. Trust me.
Christmas without a Reindeer? Come on, when was the last time one of your lot was found perched on top of the tree? Need I say more - it is us fairies that are the focal point of the day...Creative, you bet ya - I am just going to have grab 5 minutes beauty sleep (not that its needed) and then I will be all over this. In fact often I have so many creaive thoughts running round this pretty head that I often think how blessed I am to be able to combine brains and beauty
I often think how blessed you are to be able to retain a facial expression with the amount of botox you've had
Botox? Don’t get me started!
Actually, the last time a reindeer was found at the top of a tree was last year at the wrap party after we got back from delivering the toys (I'd like to see a Fairy try and do that, by the way). Not quite sure how she did it, but I distinctly remember Vixen Chantelle been up there at some point doing some kind of dance.
Binding!!! For God sake, I've only just learned how to use the stapler!
Yeah that was a case of too much fairy dust Bon Jovial, Midget Gem was being very generous with it that night I tell ye!
Donner and Blitzen! Blinking presentation, presentation, presentation. Do you know how much faffing and tarting up goes into Gannt charts and the like? But, who am I to argue? Head elf knows best. I'm busy working on the costings and timelines (ie. it'll cost and it'll take no time at all at all at all). All I can say is thank goodness for the Reindeer - I'm all for the big Santa man but I'm no fan of following him up the rear for the Big Pitch, though Santi would, as Roy quite rightly says, be much safer with an elf. Just as well the man with the sleigh's the man for the job.