Adding Thought Diversity to Your Project Teams
“The future of workplace diversity is here, and it’s not what you think. In fact, it’s how you think.” — Alison Griswold In Griswold’s article, “Why ‘Thought Diversity’ is the Future of the...
View ArticleTop 10 Workplace Trends for 2014
According to China Gorman, CEO of the Great Place to Work Institute, the Top 10 workplace trends for 2014 are: Millennials make their mark Global goes global Talent, talent, talent Investing in...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Stop Telling and Start Asking?
Communicating effectively is a foundational project leadership role. Communication is essential in a healthy project. All too often, when we interact with team mates—especially those who report to...
View ArticleEleven Project Leadership Principles Worth Doing
Project managers, did you know there is a 1983 Army Leadership Guide that contains eleven principles of leadership well worth adding to your project leadership skill set? Funny how sometimes things...
View ArticleAre You in Project Management? You are in $ALE$!
In To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others, Daniel H. Pink builds a strong, clear case that selling, which he defines broadly as “the ability to move others,” has become an essential...
View ArticleLean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sally Helgesen reviewed Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead in Strategy+Business magazine as one of the Best Business Books 2013: Managerial Self-Help. This blog adapts her review to apply to...
View ArticleAttention! Project Leaders: Business Analysis is a Discipline, NOT a Job Title
“Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend...
View ArticleReady to Make a Change to Agile? Make it STICKY!
“Change means uncertainty; uncertainly breeds opportunity.” Japanese saying “Uncertainty is the breeding ground of all great possibility!” Jennifer Chrisman Are you ready to adopt Agile...
View ArticleNegotiating Skills for Project Leaders: Part 1 of 3
“Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.” Victor Kiam To start, let’s take a look at two basic types of negotiation. We’ll also consider the three phases of negotiation and the skills you...
View ArticleNegotiating Skills for Project Leaders – WATNA, BATNA, and WAP: Part 2 of 3
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” Lawrence J. Peter Like any challenging task, negotiation requires preparation. Before you begin a negotiation, you need...
View ArticleNegotiating Skills for Project Leaders – Laying the Groundwork: Part 3 of 3
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” Thomas Edison In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we looked at the importance of establishing your bargaining position. In this blog we...
View ArticleThree Things Your Project Team Wants: It’s NOT the Money
On today’s projects, it can be difficult to find ways to motivate the team without giving them a monetary incentive. How can you keep the project team members motivated, engaged and passionate —...
View ArticleAre You Ready for an Eight Percent Increase in Productivity?
Task-oriented and Relationship-oriented Project Leadership In Art of the Leader, author William A. Cohen describes Hernándo Cortez, Spanish explorer, motivating his starving, exhausted men to fight the...
View ArticleThe Five BIG Challenges of Eliciting Requirements
Not overcoming the five BIG challenges of eliciting requirements can have dire consequences for the success of your of your project. The challenges of poor requirements definition and management...
View ArticleWhy Great Project Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict...
How effective is your decision making process? In our results-oriented and media-driven society, nearly all decisions made by a project leader are analyzed by whether they worked or not. This leads to...
View ArticleLean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sally Helgesen reviewed Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead in Strategy+Business magazine as one of the Best Business Books 2013: Managerial Self-Help. This blog adapts her review to apply to...
View ArticleAttention! Project Leaders: Business Analysis is a Discipline, NOT a Job Title
“Business analysis is the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend...
View ArticleReady to Make a Change to Agile? Make it STICKY!
“Change means uncertainty; uncertainly breeds opportunity.” Japanese saying “Uncertainty is the breeding ground of all great possibility!” Jennifer Chrisman Are you ready to adopt Agile...
View ArticleNegotiating Skills for Project Leaders: Part 1 of 3
“Information is a negotiator’s greatest weapon.” Victor Kiam To start, let’s take a look at two basic types of negotiation. We’ll also consider the three phases of negotiation and the skills you...
View ArticleNegotiating Skills for Project Leaders – WATNA, BATNA, and WAP: Part 2 of 3
“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” Lawrence J. Peter Like any challenging task, negotiation requires preparation. Before you begin a negotiation, you need...
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