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The Secret to Reading Minds with Perceptual Positions
Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the world from someone else’s point of view? Maybe that would help with conflict, influence, or negotiation. This is exactly what John Grinder and Judith DeLozier’s Perceptual Positions technique will give you.
Continue reading...Get Better Results from you Team with Tuckman
Small groups are an important part of organisational life. We deploy them to tackle short-term problems and as regular work units. Outside of work, we encounter them in many contexts. It was Bruce Tuckman whose research gave us the clearest and most useful model of how they develop.
Continue reading...The Secret to creating a WBS with a Mind Map
One of the most under-used Project Management tools of all is the Work Breakdown Structure, or WBS. For some reason, it seems to intimidate new Project Managers. Yet it is nothing more than a listing of everything you need to do in a structured way. And there is one very friendly and familiar tool that […]
Continue reading...How to Know When to Use Project Management
Project Management is one of the most powerful solutions available to you. But what is the problem it solves? This article is about when to use Project Management and all the tools and techniques that it puts at your disposal.
Continue reading...Hard and Soft Project Management Skills
You have probably heard of ‘hard and soft Project Management’. In fact, you may have come across an artificially concocted debate about the merits of hard versus soft Project Management. In this article, I want to assess what the terms hard and soft mean, and why they are not in opposition to each other.
Continue reading...Why To-Do is so Old Fashioned
Do you use a To Do list? Of course you do. Almost everyone in project management does. What tends to differ is the form: a clean sheet from a memo pad, a running list in the back of a notebook, scraps of paper, sticky notes stuck everywhere, an app on your phone, your computer or […]
Continue reading...Book Review: Leadership, Rudolph Giuliani
I have over 30 books on leadership on my shelf: deep and shallow, scholarly and populist, straight and quirky. Bt there is one I enjoyed reading and, as a project manager, got more out of than any other: Leadership, by Rudolph Giuliani.
Continue reading...Find the Key: What are the Basics?
Here is something that has always been one of the most important insights, for me: “Focus on the basics, do them well, and do them relentlessly.” The Project Management Elements I have always applied this rule to project management and, through a series of projects, I have recognised a pattern of behaviour in myself that has […]
Continue reading...Cycle Times and the Monitor and Control Loop
In my last blog: “Project Multi-tasking: the Multi-Tasking Fallacy” I discussed the need to allocate chunks of time to each task you are working on – and to each project you are managing. Good Project Control The post was primarily about managing more than one project in parallel. At the end of that post, I […]
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