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What’s In It For Your Team Members?

March 31st, 2010 · 75 Comments

In the hassle and buzzle of day to day work life, of course mixed with a busy personal life, we need to remember that our team members also have their own personal goals, aspirations and challenges. There are many things we can do related to this but the first step is always awareness. Here are [...]

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Tags: Soft Skills

Leadership and Options

January 19th, 2010 · 554 Comments

What do you do when hopelessness seems on the horizon? What do you do when it appears you have tried everything and nothing is working? What do you do when it appears that you are at the end of the road?

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The Power Of Pushback

September 23rd, 2009 · 9 Comments

There is no better dose of reality, than the power of pushback.  It occurs in every walk of life and, utilized properly, can be our friend in the project management process.  It comes in most handy when dealing with uncertainty.  It also keeps us honest about our prospects.

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Tags: Project Management Process · Soft Skills

Communicating a Clear and Positive Way Ahead

March 10th, 2009 · 691 Comments

Project and program managers today are in a position of needing to grapple with many tough choices. We need to assess and re-assess our options and, in an almost tortuous way, develop a positive way ahead to communicate with our stakeholders. For us, the process of going through that struggle is important. But to our stakeholders, what is important is the positive way ahead that we have developed.

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Check Your Assumptions

January 6th, 2009 · 418 Comments

In managing a project or program, we start with an objective, work in the details, get buying, put together a schedule, and implement. Of course, that is a very simplified version of what happens in project and program management but…

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The 5 Keys to Follow in Risk Planning

September 10th, 2007 · 900 Comments

There are 5 keys to managing risk in an organized, structured manner. The key here is to THINK AHEAD! PLAN for potential risks! The larger the situation, and the more complex the interrelationships and dependencies among elements of the over program, the more critical it is to be formal about this.

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