Taking time for powerful just-in-time learning
Jeff and I are posting this week about different ways to effectively learn new project skills, including the value of …
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What the pros know – leaps in ability, consistent performance
Jeff talked yesterday about the value of practicing new tools and skills, to truly master them for application in the …
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Charting a path through uncertainty to reduce team anxiety
My parents live in Louisiana and unfortunately got hit hard by Hurricane Gustav a few weeks ago. Their home was …
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A final bonus post on Great PMs – notes on the leadership persona
I have come to believe that leadership is really about what you do and influence others to do, rather than primarily …
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Great Career Options for Great PMs
I wanted to do my last big post on bridging from these ideas of what constitutes a great PM to what …
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Great PMs – Perfection not a requirement, flexibility and fit a must
Today I want to tackle a couple of typical questions I hear about what a great PM needs to be …
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Executive Views on Being a Great PM – Part 2
Continuing my observations on what executives value – what THEY think makes a great PM. First, by contrast, it’s interesting …
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Executive Views on Being a Great PM – Part 1
So what DO executives think of us as project managers and what do they value? I know from conferences and …
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Aspects of Being a Great Project Manager
This week I’ll be writing about what it means to be a great project manager – from the perspective of my …
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Part 6 of 6 on Teamwork: How the PM can make or break the project’s teamwork
Today I wanted to tackle how project managers and their approach to that role can be seen as boon to …
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Part 5 of 6 on Teamwork: Pervasive Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and Initiative
One of the things I’ve tried to do in this series is use some “word pictures”: ways of describing things …
Part 4 of 6 on Teamwork: Bottom Lines – A tool for achieving interpersonal teamwork
A friend once emailed me with a burning question about “A Situation” with a particular team member. What had started …
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Teamwork: Victims and Vanquishers (part 3 of 6 on observations on true teamwork)
My first two posts in this teamwork rumination (last week’s post here and yesterdays “part 2” here) set up the idea that …
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More on “teamwork” – how individual team members’ knowing and doing makes the team
In a post last week I talked about “teamwork” not being a warm and fuzzy concept to me. To me the concept of …
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Teamwork is really a set of individual commitments and contributions…do you have it on your project?
“The concept of teamwork often gets turned into some fluffy, warm and fuzzy ‘thing’ that no one quite knows what to do with … a bunch of people working together in unadulterated harmony or even outright bliss. Great if you can get it but not something I’ve seen a huge amount of….”
Avoiding spirit-killing project management
Someone asked me recently “How do I know whether I’m using ‘just enough’ project management on my project?” My thoughts …
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PM disappointment – no silver bullets for the hard problems!
Last week I led a workshop aimed at project managers who are ‘beyond the basics’ and looking to take a …
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