Suppliers, if you’re in business you’re not going to be able to manage without them. Good suppliers have a huge part to play in helping a company succeed. However bad supplier can have the opposite effect. For example, take a look at recent supplier impacts on KFC. The impact from poor performance can be considerable. […]
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5 common reasons behind poor communication
In our recent article insert on bad project management we discussed the importance of not just good but fabulous communication. Great communication is a fundamental skill both in our professional and personal lives. Get it right and it’s a tool that can help influence be that your colleagues within your business, your suppliers or your […]
6 signs of poor risk management in projects
In our recent post (5 attributes of a bad project manager) we discussed the attributes of bad project management. In that piece, we touched on Risk Management and described the impact that a poor risk management process can have on a project. Despite the fact that risk management is integral to the delivery of successful […]
Five attributes of a bad project manager
Project managers come in all shapes and sizes. Like with all jobs some excel in the role while others find it a struggle. Consequently, you’ll find that most businesses have a spread of great project managers and some that well, um, aren’t so good 😉 Having great project managers can be crucial for businesses when […]
6 steps for better negotiation
Whether you realize it or not we all negotiate at some point in our professional lives whether it’s over things like the budget for a multi-million dollar spend on a project or smaller stuff like negotiating over a meeting room in your office that you really want to use but haven’t booked. As negotiation is […]
6 steps to reduce procurement costs
As materials and services typically account for such a high percentage of organizational spend there is no getting away from the need to optimize that spend and the associated procurement costs. If you take a look under the hood of most businesses you’ll probably find some form of cost reduction activity underway to varying degrees […]
10 reasons why your work meetings suck
Try as we might for most of us, you just cant irradicate meetings from your day to day business life. We all know that the majority of them don’t add value, and suck time up where we could be being effective. Meetings generally come in all shape and sizes from top-level senior management meetings where […]
5 tips for Better change management
Most businesses will, at some stage, embark on some form of change management program. However as many find these things are not easy. While change management includes an element of project management it is not *Just* Project management and to treat it as such can lead to a range of problems. Let’s start with what […]
6 Tips for better objective setting
Objective setting should be seen as an integral part of your business. Having well-structured objectives helps to give your workforce and it’s managers clear targets which have been defined to ensure everyone is pulling in the same way. From a governance perspective most business owners deploy goals and having clearly defined objectives helps them structure […]
5 things Project Managers get wrong when scheduling
If you’re a project manager the chances are you’re responsible for producing a schedule. A project schedule is a list of the activities to deliver the goal of the project. This is usually time-based and often contains key milestones driven by groups of tasks. Project schedules are one of the more common tasks and deliverables […]