Category Archives for Project Management Tips
The Single Best Team Effectiveness Tool | Video
You want the best from your team. But your time is limited, and you have so much to do. What is the single best Team Effectiveness tool?
Continue reading...Avoid Sunflower Bias: Critical PM Priority | Video
Sunflower Bias is when we turn to face the ‘brightest’ source in the room – and allow them to influence us beyond the rigor of their arguments.
Continue reading...Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying) | Video
Three issues in one video: How to deal with overload, overwhelm, and yelling clients. I focus on the Yelling Client. Because it’s bullying.
Continue reading...How to Determine an Appropriate Feedback Approach | Video
You know how important good feedback is. But there are different ways to do it. So, how do you select an appropriate feedback approach?
Continue reading...How to Become a Great Project Manager – 3 things you need | Video
You want to become a great Project Manager? Excellent! I’ll tell you the 3 things you need to make the leap from ‘good’ to ‘great’…
Continue reading...Project Management Lessons from Hagakure, Book of the Samurai |Video
Hagakure, the Book of the Samurai, was written in the 18th Century. It draws from the words of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Those words have a lot that a modern Project Manager can learn from.
Continue reading...Who Gets the Best Answers? The Wisdom of Crowds | Video
There aren’t many books I recommend unreservedly to professional and business people I work with. But the Wisdom of Crowds is one of them.
Continue reading...The Project Control Paradox | Video
Project Control is an important part of our discipline as Project Managers. But it carries within it a paradox…
Continue reading...You Don’t Get What You Deserve… You get what you negotiate | Video
‘You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.’ That comes from the title of a book by Dr Chester L Karass. Karass was an expert and teacher in negotiation: ‘In Business As in Life, You Don’t Get What You Deserve, You Get What You Negotiate’.
Continue reading...Why Resistance is a Good Thing | Video
Nobody likes dealing with resistance, right? Well, despite this, it’s actually a good thing. Let me explain…
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