How to develop and implement a high-IMPACT strategic plan
Whether for an organization, your department, or a single initiative, it’s important to clearly articulate your strategy and the detailed steps you must take to ensure that the strategy is realized in the highest-IMPACT way possible. The purpose of a strategic plan is to define the overall goals you must accomplish, why you must accomplish […]
Handling a Bully on Your Project
Recently, I was faced with a cyberbully who berated and bullied me online, constantly telling me that I didn’t know what I was talking about nor did anything I have to say have value. It was ugly and very, very sad. This is something that many of us can face in our daily lives and […]
How to Measure PMO Performance
We are already prepping for our February webinar! And this month, we are talking about how to measure the performance of your PMO. Pretty important stuff, right? Think about it for a minute, how do you know if your PMO is providing the intended organizational IMPACT?
What is a Project Management Center of Excellence and does it belong in the PMO?
Is a Project Management Center of Excellence (PM COE) a function of a PMO or is it its own entity? Yes. It all depends on your goals.
PMO vs. Agile: Can’t we all just get along?
It seems that no matter which side of the line you come down on, people feel very strongly about the way an organization should go about getting projects done. If you are in the PMO or Agile camp, historically, you haven’t seen eye to eye on which approach is best. Is it best to have […]
10 Steps to Ensure Project Rescue Success
It can be a sticky situation to rescue a project that is struggling to meet the business needs. Here are some quick tips on how to ensure that the process is as productive as possible and you get that project back on track quickly.
Things to Stop Doing in the New Year
At the start of each year, many of us make our to-do list of things we want to accomplish. On that list, we often put many professional goals or areas we are hoping to grow in the new year. We start the year all excited with our lists and then…reality happens. Other priorities get in […]
2017: Year in Review
Are you spending the last day of most holiday vacations traveling, tossing, or turning? Well, boredom and monkey-mind be banished! Put your travel time to good use by catching up on what you might have missed in 2017, learn new ways to drive IMPACT in your organization and careers.
Top 5 of 2017
It’s always fascinating to go back through the numbers and data and determine where the biggest IMPACT was made. This is especially true when approaching a benchmark such as the new year. My team and I took a look at all of the data sources on social media and the IMPACT site to determine which resources […]
The Big Credibility Differentiator
We’ve all been there. We make a commitment to do so something for someone (or for ourselves) and then life gets in the way and it just doesn’t happen. I’m having one of those days today. There are good reasons that I didn’t get things done like I wanted to, but if I’m not super […]