Opportunity Knocks
I ran into an interesting problem communicating something I wanted to say the other day. I was trying to describe a new opportunity we had discovered to do something positive for the company to some...
View ArticleJudging by Measuring with Curiosity
How often has this happened to you: You give a long report about what’s going on with the project, what the current status looks like, when you expect to deliver. After you finish, you open the room...
View ArticleUnited Fronts
Here’s a trick to maintaining a strong strategy and direction for your project. Before holding major meetings, meet informally with the key decision makers involved in decisions to be made at the...
View ArticleSay What You Mean
Abbreviations are getting out of hand in business. Every department of every busines seems to have hundreds. On top of that, we’ve all gotten on the band wagon of branding. The company intranet isn’t...
View ArticleIf You Want Happy Customers, Give Them Less Information
Guy Kawasaki wrote a great post a while back about customer happiness. I’ve seen this at work before. My parents, for example, have been thinking about buying a big screen television for years. The...
View ArticleToo Much Spin Can Make You Dizzy…
For better or worse, the business place nowadays is often rife with politics. Really, it always has been. With the many ways of communication nowadays though, the press, bloggers, unhappy customers...
View ArticleWho Needs to Know This?
How many times has this happened to you: A key task in the critical path of your project is completely out of control. It’s not getting done, what is done is all wrong, and everything is late. You go...
View ArticleThe Four Impressions
We all know that Project Management is to a great extent about communication. Drop all the tools, and you can manage to get a project done with effective enough communications. Drop all...
View ArticleIs This Yours?
Are there business problems in your company that no one owns? I am willing to be that there is. You may not be able to identify it, but it is there somewhere. If it isn’t, your company is probably in...
View ArticleTechnology is Not the Problem
For the techies out there (and I’m one of you), consider this… how many times in your career have you been faced with a truly incredible technical challenge? Not many, I bet. What you consider to be...
View ArticleLetting Your Employees in on the Big Picture
Do you communicate well with your employees? Do you think that they understand where what they do falls in the Big Picture? How about what will happen to them and their job when the Big Picture...
View ArticleMeeting Notes Matter
Meeting notes are one of the great chores of Project Management and Corporate life in general. No one wants to take them, few people bother to read them, and everyone wonders why people bother. The...
View ArticleThree simple points for not wasting a meeting
Yet again I venture into the land of meetings improvement. Meetings are the ultimate double-edged sword of the business world. When you need them, they’re vital; when you don’t run them right,...
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