7 Tips to Help Us Rethink Our Fears
I imagine that the fear of failure has killed more dreams than all other fears combined. It is especially treacherous because it’s largely in your imagination. It can prevent you from even trying in the first place and that guarantees failure. When i...
Ughhh… I Need To Stop Procrastinating
You procrastinate because the thought of taking a certain action does not excite you. In fact the thought actually makes you a tad sad. There are lots of actions that give us that “Ugh” feeling when we even think about doing them. The unpleasant...
8 Habits of The Unproductive Project Leader
Being an effective leader of a project is about getting the right things done in a timely manner. You often have to wade through minutiae and determine the next best thing to do. You have to be productive. With a world filled with choices and...
Finding Fun in Your Workday
New Year New Me. It’s probably more like – New Year Same Stuff. How do we inject a little more fun in our day to day, this year? For some of us, we love what we do – we are having fun as soon as we show up and start creating our magic. For most of...
So… They Just Aren’t That Into You (Team Relationships)
As a consultant, I am used to supporting and leading teams of people that I do not know. Additionally, my name is not the most conventional American name. As a little kid in private school academic settings, I can remember people discounting or...
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....