Getting Clear Feedback from Project Participants
“Let no good (or not so good) project go away quietly.” Or, as an ancient Greek, most likely Socrates said, “ The unexamined life is not worth living.” In the art of facilitating groups of people to deliver amazing things, some of my best learnings have come from...
Getting Clear Feedback from Clients
Feedback is a gift. Honestly… I don't always like unpacking it. When it comes to birthday presents, I love being surprised with the unexpected, but with feedback from clients, not so much. If you do not get feedback. You do not grow....
Mistakes Project Managers Make
I love getting new things – new things to do, new books to read, new things in the mail. And, I love meeting new people. So – when I get a new project, I am off to the races. I am calling meetings to talk about it, and I am talking to anybody who...
Setting Healthy Boundaries in Business
With smartphones at our fingertips, boundaries around business are more blurred than ever. Applications like Slack and Gmail make us radically accessible, conference calls can happen at any time of the day, and laptops make it easier than ever to work on the weekends....
So – What does a good project manager do?
A project manager manages a project. And a project is a body of work that has an identifiable start and stop. A project is put in place to deliver something in a specific amount of time. It could be put in place to deliver new technology, an...
Effectiveness of Training Combined with Coaching
I am one of those people that loves going to training classes. It gives me the nostalgia of the first week of school. New teacher. New classroom. New friends. Don’t laugh – I am a proud nerd. I get excited when they pass out the...
Leveraging Routines to Drive Results
When I hear the word routine, I want to zone out. I automatically think – boring...humdrum. I like for my life to be exciting, but as much as I like to consider myself adventurous and exciting, I do not like for my results to be thrown together. I...
Organizing your Projects
In my first project management role, I had one project. It was lovely. I read the PMBOK, the whole thing. I did everything it told me to do. I used Ask Jeeves (that's pre-Google) for questions that it didn't answer. I finished on time and...
Project Management = Relationship Management
I am one of those people that thinks that everything is about relationships. Everything. So, it is not surprising for me to think that project management is all about relationships. But – no, really... That is the crux of this thing. If you have your...