Greetings Leaders! Statistically speaking, the 80/20 rule seems to apply to almost every situation. When it comes to your staff, it means that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. What would happen if we could somehow raise the level of performance of the 80%, just a bit? Or better yet, how can […]
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Gina Abudi – Contributing Expert Understanding the value of project management to the organization is one of the biggest challenges for leaders. Too often project management is considered as tactical – with no real thought or understanding of the strategic value of project management. However, shortchanging project management not only hinders an organization trying to
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Greetings Leaders! I had an interesting discussion the other day with some executives about Organizational Change Management. They asked what I thought Change Management meant to me. It sounds like it would be an obvious answer, but it is not as obvious as it might first appear.
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Greetings Leaders! I’ve trained quite a few project managers over the years, but not many project sponsors. That’s a problem. Too many organizations ensure they have processes in place and trained project managers to use them, but ignore the project sponsor. While you may be tempted to think project sponsors don’t need training, informal polls
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Greetings Leaders, Project Managers and Future Project Managers…. I had a colleague ask me for some advice the other day. He is a supervisor, acting as a project manager and he doesn’t like it. Most of the projects he manages are fairly small and he spends most of his time chasing paperwork and going to
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Greetings Leaders! Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege of knowing and working with some awesome people. Some have successfully started a consulting business, others got started but had to return to the workforce as their business entered difficult times. In either case, you have to applaud people who follow their dreams.
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Greetings Leaders! As I look at successful businesses, they hall have one thing in common, they know how to plan, and then execute the plan. Sounds simple doesn’t it? Yet if it were so simple, every business would thrive, which we know is just not the case. Assuming that most business owners know how to
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Greetings Leaders! I entered the world of consulting in 2001 after leaving a small firm that had to downsize because it lost a major client in a poor economy. I wanted to teach leadership development to teens and small businesses and for a year I stumbled about trying to find a way to make a
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