Skills

Getting to know your project contractors

Social, political, economic and demographic change is completely transforming the world of work and the way we engage and manage people in...

As project managers we want our team members to have a commitment to deadlines, be optimistic about their work, stay focused on the goal,...

Eliminating 'Us and Them': Making IT and the Business One by Steve Romero is a solid treatment on the effective governance of IT (not IT...

Everyone in business today is buried under an avalanche of data; adding routine reports to the data mountain may no longer be useful. Is...

Reporting and communicating are not the same! While many project communication plans are simply a schedule for the distribution of project...

A project success plan can be a platform for ensuring all project stakeholders start off, and continue, on the right footing. Setting up...

Attaining stakeholder buy-in is one of the most important steps in the communication process when managing a project. It ensures that the...

Effective communication between project stakeholders is always difficult and as my article 'Communication and project stakeholders'...

Ron Roberts agrees with 1970s Australian band Skyhooks that 'Ego is Not a Dirty Word'. In fact he says some ego is essential for leaders...

How do we know if we have communicated? Albert Einstein summarised the problem nicely: "The major problem in communication is the illusion...