Are you owning the project management process, or are they?
Have you ever heard a stakeholder on your project say, “I’m completing the template you guys asked me to complete?” Or maybe you’ve heard, “I’m completing the steps in your process.” Do you know what’s wrong with both of those sentences? They didn’t say “our,” they said “your.” Sometimes we think we’ve done a good […]
Fight, Flight or Freeze – Resistance to Implementing PM Practices
Have you struggled with getting your PMO setup or with getting PM practices in place in your organization? It may not be the best practices themselves, but the way you are going about implementing them that is causing the problem.
Project Management Day of Service (PMDoS®) 2017
Board of Directors of Project Management for Change: Laura Barnard, Mike Hannan, Kendall Lott, Marcus Parker; Ms. Wendy Spencer, CEO of the Corporation for National Community Service; nonprofit participants On January 16, 2017, Martin Luther King Day, a national day of service, over 250 project management volunteers came together to help launch over 50 critical […]
“Be More Strategic”
Have you ever been told that you need to be more strategic? Did you think to yourself, “Geez, I thought I was being strategic!” What the heck does it mean to be strategic, anyway, and how do you know if you are doing it?
Champion Your Passion
Author: Jeffrey Coleman, PMP – President and CEO of Illumnovate®, LLC Have you found yourself sitting at your desk, or in deep thought at the water cooler or in the meeting conference room (while you are listening to someone’s rhetoric or a bunch of colleagues vehemently debating on an issue) asking yourself one (or many) […]
How to Win Well When Winning Feels Impossible
Author: Karin Hurt, Founder and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders, LLC Laura and I were doing a Winning Well workshop with the United Nations, when one of the participants, “Pete,” looked at us sincerely and said, “I hear you, and all these tools sound good, and I’m going to use them. But what do you do […]
Telling the PMO Story
Whether you are trying to make the case for the PMO for the first time or giving an update on the progress of the PMO, it’s extremely important that you tell a compelling story of both pain and progress. The story needs to take your audience on the journey from where they are today to […]
If You Want to Be a Leader, Stop Doing
Download the eBook Do you feel like you can’t ever catch up? Do you feel like you have countless meetings on your calendar and that leaving on time is an oh so distant memory? Maybe it’s because you are doing instead of leading.