At one point in your career you will need to face an ugly truth. Maybe the project you're working on is a dog's breakfast, or perhaps you...
Dealing with high maintenance project team members
I was recently watching the movie When Harry Met Sally, and there’s that funny scene where Harry tells Sally that she’s high maintenance....
Making meritocracy work for your project team
Where does meritocracy stand in an age where equality has started to mean mediocrity? What are some of the drawbacks of treating everyone...
Getting to know your project team
I had the opportunity recently to present two workshops at the AIPM 2014 National Conference in Brisbane. The first workshop was for the...
Shaping the ragtag project team
In coaching project managers or aspiring project managers I am often asked: “How do you create a team when most of the immediate team...
Developing inclusivity from within a project team
In my previous posts on project team inclusivity I talked about how change needs to start with reflective practice. Building an inclusive...
Inclusivity through reflective practice on project teams
Previously I introduced the concept of inclusivity and my recent investigations into this space through presenting papers at a number of...
Building inclusivity on project teams
I recently had the great opportunity to present a number of conference papers in Croatia, Nigeria and the UK covering a range of change...
Projects with happy endings
Don't look back, the motivational poster read, that's not the way you're going. 'Bull!' I thought. 'Look back to see how far you've come.'...
5 ways project managers use power
Have you ever looked at someone in power and wondered: 'how did they get there?' Is there some special power gene that makes certain...










