Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Management”
Identity shapes how people describe their world. The range of options that someone can identify and define their view presents little issue, until collaboration.
In our world of people, process, and technology, a single item can mean multiple things.
In the beginning was change. Well, the beginning, itself, was change. From the beginning, however, change challenged. Some wanted change, some …
On September 25th a gang of, at current count, 70 project managers from around the world will release their reflection on one topic: What does project management mean to me – a Project Manager’s sermon.
This mob assembles under the banner of a Project Management Flash Blog or #pmFlashBlog and protagonist Shim Marom.
A healthy employee is a productive employee and health and wellness programs roll out across corporate America to capture this gain.
Compensation expert Carol Harnett shares her brilliant mistake from this Human Resource Executive article and detail on the data to her assumptions that reveal flaws in health and wellness resource commitments.
Fast Start questions brilliant mistakes.
An Agile focus is on people and interactions to produce
frequent, tangible results. A portfolio perspective is very similar
to 401(k) plans: collect a basket of options to mix and match for
targeted results. Both are current challenges that can deliver
better results.
The glass half full or glass half empty analogy presents a shortcut perspective to infer either an optimist view or a pessimist view of the world, respectively.
However, with an appreciative mindset the glass is neither half full nor half empty, the glass is full.
A full glass now provides a more complete perspective of possibility and a full view of Appreciative Inquiry options.
The ability to scope, manage, and view a project, from concept to delivery, through a risk lens, presents the essence of organization competitive advantage.
The opposite of project effectiveness bogs down organization capital, both human and financial, through a cycle of change requests that drain human and financial resources and staff motivation who now need to focus how to get a wrong project right.
In education our schools reward women. Men can’t hack certain academics: they get worse grades; follow less-rigorous academic programs; and take part in less advanced-placement classes. Post-education, our professional organizations reward men. Women get more criticism and less praise in the workplace than men do, paid 7% less than men, and judged more negatively by prospective employers than men with identical backgrounds. Same species different rules and learning engagement, why?
When things get bent Murphy’s Law takes too much credit (blame) when the more likely result being a symptom of poor planning and failures further upstream and earlier than Murphy ever came on the scene. The only law I do believe in is the law of gravity.
Just as an alarm stops you from a current, resting state, change management relies on communicating to people what they need to stop doing and what people need to start doing in a new, functional state. Time to stop blaming and start changing.
Projects have impact.
Impact affects risk.
Risk affects hope.
Hope affects scope.
This impact analysis template, designed for use with SharePoint, is an early-phase assessment to identify all stakeholders, their needs, their awareness, and their insight into the project before they surprise you.
Social media stresses compression of more with less. The more is information, the less is time. Time to read, react, and …
You can not change what you can not measure. The value of training is on trial, a trial to prove training’s return on investment. With money scarce you need to identify the dollar impact on training. Here are 3 tips for anyone who to evaluate training.
With the on-going game focused on more of less, our organizations are expected to not only run lean(er), but to lean further into the winds of constant change and constant constraints.
Change is no longer an event to manage and move on, organizations must realize change is the only constant. This operating climate highlights change management as a competitive advantage to those that figure it out, pivot, and to maintain an engaged workforce.
The stakeholders and the voice they have remains a stronger voice for change than any amount of company flyers, magnets, and town halls. Adopt a community persona strategy to improve organization, change management capability.
Welcome to the collected Community Persona Design for Organizations series. Each post is a self-contained concept that supports both the post …
SharePoint provides organizations and all who work within them to take knowledge from someone’s hard drive and to a shared forum that …
Fast Start conversation: What, Really, is Change Management? Change swirls around organizations: regulation, industry, competition, policy, knowledge, technology ability, and skills. …
We design constantly. Our emails, training courses, project plans, policies, programs, surveys, business cases, strategies, facilitations, we are in a constant state of craft, create, model, test, build, and repair.
Whatever the intent, to take a concept from intention to adoption relies less on what you design and more on how you design.
A community persona perspective measures functional communication design success and reaction to how you design is the feedback loop of how people accept your design.