Welcome to Silicon Valley Project Management’s (SVPM) Brown Bag Program Series where we focus on better Agility, and Leadership through […]
SVPM Brown Bag Series: Scrum Mastery from Good to Great Part 3 – Tactful Read More »
Welcome to Silicon Valley Project Management’s (SVPM) Brown Bag Program Series where we focus on better Agility, and Leadership through
SVPM Brown Bag Series: Scrum Mastery from Good to Great Part 2 – Enabling Read More »
This client’s issue was that she continually put in over 10 hours a day in a draining work environment. Although she had desires to do other hobbies and side businesses, she was too exhausted to do anything about those other dreams. She self-diagnosed herself as having no follow-through, although at the office – she had lots of follow-through.
After hearing her story, I suggested that she was actually micromanaging her people too much. This was taking her time away from the items she really wanted to accomplish as well as zapping all her energy. Her knee-jerk reaction was that she was not a micro-manager.
Signs that you are a micro-manager Read More »
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it Read More »
It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?
Keeping an external job offer alive Read More »
Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.
How can a career vision help me with my career Read More »
Recently, a Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal article reported the results of a BrandZ study that Apple’s brand is #1,
Strategy and Entrepreneurship – Are they Mutually Exclusive? Read More »
If I ever hear “Well – could you make a baby in one month with nine mothers?” again – I
Twins – Double Your Efficiency, Double Your Fun Read More »
When project managing for innovation and change, three important steps are getting great inspiration, having an effective idea generation session, and then moving your ideas forward with prototyping. Consider your personal and organizational prototyping practices: do you prototype across a wide range of levels, from rough to real? Do you prototype both your tangible and intangible concepts, as you might for service design and organizational change? Take a look at the following post to imagine your path this year on what and how to prototype – for yourself or across your company.
Prototype your way to Real Read More »
Randy Dean shares his “e-mail decision tree” for handling new e-mails received throughout the day, balancing time to complete embedded tasks inside of those e-mails, priority of the tasks in those e-mails, and your desire for organizational efficiency inside of your inbox.
Use a “Decision Tree” for Effective Daily E-mail Management Read More »
This post features a recommended “daily start-up” routine that will keep you focused on your key projects and priorities rather than being driven by your e-mail and the “crisis du jour” on a daily basis, by Randy Dean, the author of the recent Amazon E-mail Bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast.
Are You Managing Your Projects, or Is Your E-mail Managing You? Read More »