PMcrunch

Networking, to me, is a fun thing to do. Over time I have gotten to meet many people, many different situations — and I love learning about what people do, how they think, what they have experienced, and what their perspective is. However, what I’ve also found is that the approach that you take to networking can bring about very different results from another approach. Let’s take a look at this topic.

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Project Communications plans provide project managers with the opportunity to think through how the various stakeholders and the project team will communicate with one another. I think a case can be made for thinking a little more broadly about this in today’s Web 2.0 world.

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I read a pretty comprehensive article on gantthead about leadership, it it raised a lot of issues – directly and indirectly. The article did not seem to address whether leaders can be made, or are they just born. The reality, in my opinion, is in between. I think everyone can become a leader in some way, but people cannot readily be leaders in every situation. People have natural tendencies and natural characteristics, and they need to play on them. As such, we can adapt to situations, but there are some situations in which an individual will thrive, while there are others where they will not. As such, a person may have natural leadership ability in some venues, but absolutely none in others. For example, a union leader demonstrates leadership ability within the union setting, but may be totally out of place in a corporate setting, where a different type of leadership is needed.

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