Let’s face it, business is a team sport, as such most of us have to either create or give presentations during our working week, for most of us we’ll have to do both. Unless we’ve either got bucket loads of experience or a level of training behind us many of us find building persuasive presentations […]
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How To Create a Kanban Board to manage your to do list
In one of our recent posts 6 reasons why you suck at managing your workload we discussed some work productivity ideas. We talked about to-do lists as one of the most powerful tools you can use in workload management, while there’s a plethora of tools available out there, one of the options available that we […]
6 reasons you suck at managing your workload
We all want to work effectively. No one sets out to do a bad job. So why is it that we often find ourselves in a position where we’re struggling with deadlines, we have our boss screaming at us that we’re late with our work and we find the quality of that work dipping? These […]
Beginners guide to change: 10 drivers for transformation
In our last article on the 20/50/30 tool, we discussed the use of the tool in the context of change management. In this article, we will again look at change management but this time we’ll investigate the key drivers behind change in organizations. Change happens in all businesses. Some cope well with it and some […]
Change agents guide to 20/50/30 – or how to ignore your detractors in 2 easy steps
While most of us have heard of the 80/20 rule there is another rule that can also be applied to everyday life. This is the 20/50/30 rule. Whilst the rule has been around for a long time, I first came across it in a financial context (see example here) but it’s also an excellent tool […]
Excel formula to calculate change in alphabet (great for calculating design drawing issue changes)
Good old excel never ceases to show me new things! If like me you work in engineering you’ll be familiar with the fact that design drawings get updated. If like me you often have analyze the impact of those changes then until recently I’ve always looked to do this manually as my design drawings release/version are alphabetically […]
8 Example Risk Register Categories, classifying your types of risk
One of the things often asked within project teams is how to categorize risk. While the process of managing risk is one well-travelled and one which of course you’ll be following, categorizing risks within a risk register does have some benefits whether that’s for reporting or management purposes. Through categorizing your risks the result can […]
6 methods to make meetings work for you
We all know that meetings are fair game when it comes to criticism, on the outside they appear an easy target – they take up the valuable time of groups of people and have varying degrees of effectiveness (often none). Do they add any real value? Well that’s up for debate, for example over at […]
Is company culture the key deliverable for your recruitment process not skills?
There’s a really great piece over at business insider which discusses how hard it is to become a Delta airlines flight attendant. It’s a really interesting read and I suggest you take a look. It does pose the interesting question of “is it too easy to get a job at your company”. Recruitment is the […]
Ways to approach lack of buy in to project delivery
Following on from our post on 5 common reasons behind poor communication I read with interest a post on Seth Godin’s blog recently that talked about When well-meaning people don’t see things the same way. Go and have a read and then come back (please!). In the world of project management stakeholder engagement and buy-in […]