I have witnessed many individuals throughout my working years who always needed to be right. And it came with a cost. Sometimes these were other project managers, project team members, including engineers and executives, and other non-project staff. The cost was intrusive and insidious to the whole organization. Mistrust, tension, arguments, projects that went nowhere,… Continue reading When being right is the wrong goal
Confusion, communication, clarity, consensus. I had a meeting the other day, and there was a time conflict. The meeting had been scheduled for 10:00, and a request to reschedule it for 11:00 had been made. However, this request was ignored, leading to confusion. In email. Which only adds to the confusion. But we hashed it… Continue reading From confusion to clarity and consensus
I had an employee once that would tell me “It’ll be done on Friday.” He would tell me this for every task on any day all year long. I was a young supervisor and felt bad for him in some ways. He was a nice guy but seemed to have it rough, had fallen out… Continue reading It’ll be done on Friday
As a Project Manager, there are many hats to wear. Often times I feel like there is so much to do and learn. I LOVE it! It suits my need for distraction and apparent ADD that I didn’t know I had! Find something and become good at it - really good at it. Whether it’s… Continue reading Become good at something
Everyone and every team needs tools. They need to have access to and understand what the tools are generally used for and why, as well as to be able to adopt and use what is available. For instance: Outlook or Gmail - email and calendar (plus many other things if desired). Monday/Jira/ClickUp/Excel - could be… Continue reading Use what tools you have
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