04/14/08 Tip of the Week: People Management Skills: Tip 3 - Make the career of your employee a priority.
April 14, 2008
The better your employees perform, the better you as manager will have performed. Ensure your direct reports have career goals and a career path and seek to establish and confirm those areas of assistance and facilitation that you can provide. Your actions... Read more...
04/07/08 Tip of the Week: People Management Skills: Tip 2 - Think of people management as a role.
April 7, 2008
Some people think of people management as being a boss of some kind. Being a good boss doesn't necessarily mean being a your employee's friend. Rather, it entails providing direction and feedback and then doing all that you can to make sure that your... Read more...
03/31/08 Tip of the Week: People Management Skills: Tip 1 - Acknowledge people management as a skill.
March 31, 2008
Are you good at People Management? Surprisingly, most managers respond in the positive, yet survey after survey provides quantitative and qualitative data suggesting otherwise. As a first step, acknowledge that people management is a skill unto itself... Read more...
03/24/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 10 - Remember who the boss is.
March 24, 2008
Project portfolio management can be a tremendous discipline for management and the leadership team. It will facilitate the strategic alignment of projects and programs to the priorities of the business. However, there will come times when the business... Read more...
03/17/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 9 - Anticipate business opportunities and constraints.
March 17, 2008
Economic cycles and business issues can impact the project portfolio both positively and negatively. Many of these new business opportunities and constraints can be identified and acted upon early to manage the portfolio and to confirm the integrity of... Read more...
03/10/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 8 - Be open to project failures.
March 10, 2008
Most project management methodologies anticipate project difficulties and provide monitoring and controlling processes for change, issues, and problem management. However, the resulting mindset for the project effort can often be singularly focused on... Read more...
03/10/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 8 - Be open to project failures.
March 10, 2008
Most project management methodologies anticipate project difficulties and provide monitoring and controlling processes for change, issues, and problem management. However, the resulting mindset for the project effort can often be singularly focused on... Read more...
03/03/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 7 - Use executive dashboards.
March 3, 2008
Few executives will take the time to login to your PPM tool much less navigate through reports or search through data. They will no doubt want the PMO to have and use and master the PPM tool and its capabilities, but they themselves may or may not be... Read more...
02/25/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 6 - Use the tool in your operations reviews.
February 25, 2008
Use the capabilities and outputs of the PPM tool to make decisions. If different tools, reports, and data is being used for management and review, it won't take long for the support for the PPM tool to dissipate. Conversely, if the PPM tool is used as... Read more...
02/18/08 Tip of the Week: Project Portfolio Management: Tip 5 - Forgive human errors, but not process errors.
February 18, 2008
Don’t assume things will automatically play or can run on auto-pilot. Business dynamics and changing conditions prevail and require portfolio agility, the ability to stay current with your investment status and respond to changes. Also prevalent can... Read more...