A few articles ago, I shared how to create a communications plan to support change management in your project. In this article, I am going to be covering the actual …
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7 Early-stage Project Risk Components You Should Consider
Many project managers are simply thrown into their work or the rapid start of a project before they have a chance to have a moment to consider what the project …
Buy-in is a team sport
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” John C. Maxwell. A key to creating buy-in is to understand human nature. The leader should start with themselves …
Creating a communication plan, a critical component of project change management
Creating a communication plan that delivers the right messages, to the right audiences, at the right time is a critical component of your project’s change management. The plan should be …
Off-script | How going off-script can help project managers adapt to change
How can project managers adapt to change better? Consider going off-script. Lately, in jiu-jitsu, I have noticed my game starting to resemble my professor’s game. Because he teaches a curriculum, …
What is the measure of a successful project?
Historically speaking, project managers have always seen the measure of a project’s success related to what you might have come to know as the “iron triangle” or quadruple constraints. A …
How to prepare for a project kick-off meeting and what to cover
Project kick-off meetings are critical to a successful project launch and not having a plan in place for how to structure the meeting can have the project start off on …
5 Reasons why you should be using risk management on every project?
There are still a great number of projects led by competent Project Managers (PMs) out there that do not use risk management to its full capacity or intent. Most of …
Creating a project charter for a Six Sigma project
What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a business process improvement methodology designed to improve business processes by decreasing variability and defects. The term Sigma is used to describe the quality of …
Are You An Inclusive Project Leader? Podcast
In this podcast, Cornelius Fichtner interviews Agata Czopek about what it means to be an inclusive project leader. They talk about the reality that diversity is a fact and inclusion …