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TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off and Successful Teams
The other day I was flipping through the channels and I came across a show called “Ultimate Cake Off” on TLC. On this show, three professional cake decorators (and their teams) are given nine hours to...
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Would You Rather Be a Boss or a Leader?
There’s a fairly well known quote by H. Gordon Selfridge about the difference between a boss and a leader that goes like this: “The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on...
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Out of the Mouth of a Team Member: How to Have a Loyal Team
“Great leaders know that when they care about employees as people first, then as employees, many positive things happen. One of them is a loyal workforce.” – Peter Barron Stark & Associates A good...
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Are Your Team Members “Happy as a Clam”?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Happy as a clam,” and wondered what in the world it means? According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the phrase originated in the 1630′s as “Happy as a clam in...
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Praising Project Team Members: Does it Really Matter?
Today’s post is something that I’ve [sort of] borrowed from a guest blogger, Erika Flora, on the Project Management Student Blog. This afternoon I read Erika’s post entitled, “Do You Praise Your Teams...
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New Motto for Project Failure: Keep Moving Forward!
"Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one’s face." -James D. Finley Last night I watched the Disney movie, "Meet the Robinsons," for the first time since it came out in 2007....
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Teams: Why People Do the Things They Do
Last week on the TalkingWork podcast we interviewed Bernardo Tirado, whose passion is to mix industrial psychology with project management. One of the things we touched on briefly was the Myers-Briggs...
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Our Technology Security Blankets – Time for an Intervention?
As a very young child I had what I so lovingly referred to as “my blanky” – a security blanket that I carried around with me everywhere I went. I’m serious, EVERYWHERE. It was a part of me. After a few...
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How to Rapidly Lose Your Team Members’ Trust and Respect
A friend of mine told me this weekend that the company she works for recently made some organizational changes that resulted in her having a new boss. When I asked her how she liked him, her reply was...
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Projects and Pumpkin Pie
It looks good, but does it taste good too? Leaves are falling off the trees outside my office window. Looks like the fall season is upon us! So naturally I have pumpkin pie on the brain. (With me,...
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Introducing: The Project “Leadager”!
There’s so much discussion in the cyber world these days about leadership versus management – are they the same? Are they different? Which is better? etc, that I thought I’d just add my short...
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A Good, Better, Best Mentality
I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of interviewing Dr. Michael Brenner on the TalkingWork podcast. While, so much of what Dr. Brenner spoke of resonated with me, one point that he made really hit home....
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Rising Above the “Best” Bar
When was the last time you charged someone on your team to “just do your best”? A week ago? Yesterday? This morning? The phrase “just do your best” sounds good at first – it sounds like you have faith...
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Knowing Your Team Members and Their Capabilities
I came across a forum on LinkedIn today where someone posed this question: “What do you believe are the top five skills or attributes for a successful project manager in today’s business environment?”...
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3 Lessons I Learned from Managing an Unconventional Team
I’m a huge fan of football – college and NFL. So, I was really excited a few weekends ago when I had the opportunity to travel to Phoenix for an Arizona Cardinals game. I was there on business working...
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Adventures in the Project Journey
I am a lover of great literature. One of the most fascinating theories (to me) about literature and story-telling is what David Leeming (influenced by Joseph Campbell) called the “Monomyth,” or the...
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8 Essentials for Choosing the Right Project Management Software for You
Flying cars. Robots. Hoverboards. Teleportation. I don’t think I’m the only one who grew up thinking that by the time the 2000′s finally got here, technology would be so advanced that the world would...
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Lessons Learned: Improving Your IT Project Management Processes
This morning I sent out the following tweet: I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people voice their frustrations about how badly their IT project management processes suck because every project...
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Project Managers Providing Relief for People Affected by Hurricane Sandy
“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” ~Paul Ryan I’ve always been amazed by the incredible things human beings can...
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4 Ways Project Management is Evolving – Are You Keeping Up?
Project Portfolio Management is evolving… …are you evolving with it? We all know that project management has been around for as long as mankind has had projects to work on. But formal project...
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7 Paradoxes of Project Teams and How To Have a Team that Accomplishes Amazing...
A project manager on LinkedIn recently asked what three words best describe project management. Some of the responses I read reminded me of how inspiring and important a project manager’s work can be:...
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3 Keys to Building a Successful PMO
Starting a Project Management Office (PMO) in your organization can be risky. But, if you do it right, the benefits can be great. As Jonathan Feldman wrote in his InformationWeek article, “Project...
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3 Attributes of a Collaborative Project Leader
Collaboration. Collaboration. Collaboration. Collaboration is the change, the shift, the evolution that’s happening on project teams around the world. Or at least, it should be. Gone are the days when...
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5 Reasons Enterprise IT Projects Lack Visibility and How to Avoid Them
Does project visibility seem like a pipe-dream to you? So, you’re an IT project manager. And let me guess, you have a love-hate relationship with the word “Visibility?” If you’re like most IT project...
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Working Collaboratively on Global Project Teams
A few weeks ago I came across this quote by Tom Petrocelli, Senior Analyst, Social Enterprise at ESG (The Enterprise Strategy Group), that I loved: “The social enterprise has the potential to...
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Project Management Tips from Santa Claus – Making a List and Checking it Twice
It’s the holiday season and you know what that means… Santa Claus is coming to town! Okay, but seriously, whether or not you personally celebrate Christmas or believe in Santa Claus, you’ve got to...
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Chaos to Order: Making Your PPM Software Implementation Successful
Do your Project Management processes sometimes feel like chaotic squiggles instead of straight lines? Project management can be chaotic. There’s so much to track: people, status, tasks, requests,...
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PM Resolutions for 2013 and 5 Ways the Workforce Has Evolved
What are your 2013 Project Management Resolutions? Am I the only one who sees the year 2013 and thinks, How did that happen? It seems like only yesterday it was Y2K and yet, so much has happened and...
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How Project Management will Change in 2013…and Beyond
In light of the New Year, new projects, and new resolutions, I’ve been thinking a lot about how things are changing and need to change…especially when it comes to project management. That’s why I’ve...
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What Enterprise Work Management Means for IT Departments and PMOs
Maybe you’ve noticed that we call this blog the “Work Management Blog” and maybe you’ve wondered what, exactly, “work management” means—especially since we talk so much about project management and...
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What’s the Difference Between PPM and Enterprise Work Management?
Project teams are, now more than ever, under immense stress to do more with less. Unfortunately, most enterprise teams have to use five or more tools/software to manage all their work processes because...
View ArticleThe Unnerving Cost of Inadequate Work Visibility
Enterprise Work Management is all about one thing: Visibility. More specifically, how the right types of visibility can eliminate the work chaos caused by using multiple point solutions that scatter...
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