Online collaboration has transformed how organizations of all sizes and industries interact and perform. From one-person businesses leveraging automation to scale with ease to large multinationals interacting remotely with clients and teams, technology has countless...
Choosing the Best Project Management Methodology for Your Team
Project management is one of those skills most people think they have, but few actually do. It combines people skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to implement replicable processes to ensure sustained success for your organization and clients. Thankfully, the...
What Is Overservicing, and How Does It Hurt Your Team?
Fierce competition and an increasingly complex business environment have made organizations fight for attention like never before. B2B buyers have more information available and more options to choose from than they ever had, and it’s transformed the way your business...
Risk Management: Planning for the Unexpected
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to guess everything that could go wrong — and come up with a step-by-step plan to address it before it even happens? Of course, it’s pretty much impossible to guess the future. However, we can make educated predictions and projections —...
Keeping Our Focus on The Main Thing
I always have a long to-do list. I imagine you do, too. I have a long list for home, my kids, for nonprofits I support, for building my business, for supporting each customer, etc. So even though I give the advice, focus on the main thing. I often get irritated with...
Agile Elements Keep a Project Moving
Shift happens. Shift happens everywhere. The world around us changes so quickly. Family. Politics. The environment. Business. It's naive to think that things will happen exactly as we plan them. We only fool and frustrate ourselves when we get bent out of shape...
Decisions Require Action
"Never leave the scene of a decision without taking an action."-Tony Robbins I'm a serial decision maker. I take a special joy in making grandiose proclamations about my new life choices. For me, these decisions are usually related to drastic eating changes and how...
Lean for Project Managers
I have been learning and practicing Lean and Six Sigma for the past 18 years, and it's been an awesome journey. This journey has allowed me to learn and think about work and processes from a customer’s perspective. I studied engineering as an undergrad and business as...
Why Is Training Essential?
Have you ever had to do a Microsoft Excel VLookUp Table? Whenever I have to create a VLookUp Table, it takes me a moment to shift my mindset to get it done. It's not always an easy task for someone like me that first saw personal computers in college. When I finish,...