Building a Team that Wins the World Cup for Your Business
by Rob Zell Managers who are focused on the right things are consistently focused on building and maintaining effective teams. The manager that successfully does this is able to steer the team to...
View ArticleGoal Analysis in 5 Simple Steps
By Dot Young This is Part II in a two-part series. In my last post we talked about the purpose of a Goal Analysis and why it is a good idea to perform one at the beginning of any project. You can read...
View ArticleBusiness Strategy: Talent Management
By Edward J. Williams, MAEd, MHRM, MBA I was asked once to define talent management. After some brief thought about how to best explain it, I decided that it was best to start with a quick explanation...
View ArticleTalent Management: Designing the Employee Experience
by Rob Zell Much has been made in the last several years about managing the guest experience. We often hear how companies are seeking to make service their differentiator, or do more to leverage data...
View ArticleMore on Talent Management: Developing Competency Models
By Edward J. Williams, MAEd, MHRM, MBA In a previous article, Business Strategy: Talent Management, I identified several components involved in employing a talent management strategy. This time, I...
View ArticlePrepare for Titanic Problems
By Bill Flury Problems Don’t Add Up: They Multiply If you remember Murphy’s Law, “If anything can go wrong, it will” then you realize why you should do risk analysis for your projects. You also need...
View ArticleTeamwork Lessons From Horses
By Vicki Wrona, PMP Animals can teach us many things, especially an animal as empathic as the horse. I was fortunate enough recently to take a vacation to Glacier National Park. If you have never been...
View ArticleSetting Priorities: Saying Yes to Something is Saying No to Something Else
By Vicki Wrona, PMP Whether I am working with new or seasoned employees or managers, I often see a misunderstanding of the consequences of saying “yes”. As Stever Robbins said in one of his Quick and...
View ArticleHow Do You Translate Vague-Specific Language?
By Bill Flury A deadline is approaching. You are checking your project schedule and see that John’s task is due to be finished a week from today. You catch up with John and the following conversation...
View ArticleWhat Can Pixar’s “Inside Out” Teach Us About Instructional Design?
By Cheri Milford Like so many – I thoroughly enjoy Pixar movies. My oldest grew up with Andy in ‘Toy Story’ (I shed many tears when Andy went off to college – anticipating my oldest doing the same a...
View ArticleBiZ-Risk: A Team Game to Help Manage Risk
By Bill Flury You and your project team are probably pretty good at identifying the risks that you are likely to encounter. If you have some real pessimists on your team you may find that they can...
View ArticleTop Articles of 2014 #6-10
by Vicki Wrona, PMP It’s that time of year again where we bring you our “Best Of” articles from the prior year! These articles are the most read articles of 2014 as determined by you, our readers....
View ArticleTop Articles of 2014 #1-5
by Vicki Wrona, PMP In our last post we introduced you to #6 to #10 of our “Best of 2014” articles. These are the most read articles of the year as determined by you, our readers. We now bring your our...
View ArticleTop 5 Rewind Articles of 2014
by Vicki Wrona, PMP In our last post we introduced you to #1 – #5 of our “Best of 2014” articles. These are the most read articles of the year as determined by you, our readers. In 2014 we had a lot of...
View ArticleTechnical Expertise and the Project Manager
By Kathy Martucci, PMP In a previous blog I wrote about transferable project management skills including verbal and written communication, organization, problem solving, and teamwork. I truly believe...
View ArticleStop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
By Rob Zell When you think about the places you have worked, what pops up in your memory? When you have left an organization, did you do so because “it wasn’t a good fit”? When you consider the places...
View ArticleBeware of Specification Fleas!
By Bill Flury Warning to all system Project Managers and Developers! Specification fleas can bite! Specification fleas are those pesky things that bite you and cause you to say “Ooops!”, “Ouch” or “Oh...
View ArticleWhy Ask Why? Identifying theProblem Behind the Problem
By guest contributor Burl W. Randolph, Jr. Setting the Scene Everyone has a favorite word or phrase, with mine identified as “Why?” As a former intelligence officer, why became a natural question for...
View Article“Work” and “Fun” Don’t Have to Be Contradictory Terms
By Bill Flury “Now Our Work is More Fun” Work and Fun? – a strange combination, but we keep hearing this from most of the folks who are feeling the effects of their process improvement activities where...
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Stimulate Action with the Gap Method
By Bill Flury A stranger walks up to you and says, “Excuse me, your zipper is open”. Instinctively, you look for the exposed gap and rush to close it. Your reaction is intuitive and urgent. Most people...
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