With the Day-to-Day Project Leadership course, you will be able to lead your team well… and to do so with confidence.



You will be ready to take your place as an effective leader in your org

anization.

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When you are planning your project, you need to be mindful of all sorts of things. Some, you can control. Others are external, and you cannot. So, what are External Dependencies in your Project?

The GROW Model of coaching is the best-known and most widely-used coaching model. And coaching is a hugely valuable way for Project Managers to develop our team members. So, what is the GROW Model of Coaching?

If you want to go far...' is from the African proverb:



If you want to go fast
, go alone
If you want to go far

, go as a group

In this opinion-video, I muse on how that applies to Project management and

the...

Talk is cheap' they say.

But what matters is the thinking behind it and the deeds that follo

w it.

In this short opinion-video I argue for the value of careful
consideration.
Talk may be cheap. But
, as my father...

The Past is a Foreign Country... and so is the future. So, what should you bring when you are packing for the future?



In this video, I look at eight things a project manager needs for our journey into t

he...

When things go wrong, who's fault is it? Who is to blame?



That's a question, I tackle in this short opinion-video. The question of blame and fault is a common one for Project Managers, so this short video is...

Milestone or Deadline?

Of all the tools we use as Project Managers, none is as simple yet powerful as the milestone. We use milestones to mark essential points along the project journey, and to track our...

One of my favorite books from a few years back is John Brockman's 'This will Make you Smarter'. I have cravenly blagged his title, but not his content. Instead, here are three less well-known concepts that will help you be a...

In a recent video, I talked about Three Concepts that will Make You a Smarter Project Manager (   • Three Concepts to Make You a Smarter ...  ). Now let's take a look at the three things that people seem to regard as...

It recently occurred to me that an airplane is rather like a Project, and its captain is like a Project Manager. Let me explain why the role of a Project Manager is rather like that of a pilot...



1....

Confirmation bias is dangerous for us, as Project managers.



"What we see depends mainly on what we
look for"
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (politicia

n and polymath)

In this statement, he anticipated the...

To become an exceptional Project Manager, you need to learn how to learn from failure.



Many years ago, I can upon a helpf
ul phrase:
There's no such thing as failure: there'

s only...

Is your project a happy place?

I hop

e so.

But can you deliberately raise morale without going all
'happy-clappy'?
/>Well, yes you can.

Lab experiments looked at small, deliberate acts...

It'll Never Fly' How often have you heard words like that at the start of your project? Or maybe you've heard yourself saying them. If so, you're in danger of 'Confirmation Bias'.



If you've ever said...

The Daily Stand-up Meeting is a part of many Agile Project Management approaches. But in my experience, the idea pre-dates Agile.



I bet the pyramid builder gathered around the wineskin at the start...

Gemba is a Japanese term that means ‘actual place’.



It’s a word for a concept that we all recognize, but for which there is no word in the English l

anguage.

‘Going to the gemba’ means heading for where...

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?'



This quote from US President, Abraham Lincoln, reminds us of the value of positive engagement with our project stakeholders and the importance of handling...

Nobody likes resistance, right?

Well, despite this, it's actually a good thing. Let me expla

in...

There’s a simple model of resistance to change that you may be familiar with. It’s...

Project Control is an important part of our discipline as Project Managers. But it carries within it a paradox...



Anyone who has been to any of my live events will know that I have a few project management...

There is a real value to the Project Management body of knowledge.

And I am not referring to a specific body of knowledge, like the PMI's or APM's bodies of knowledge, the PMBOK Gude and the APMBoK. I mean the general body of...

Conflict seems to be a big part of a Project Manager's life...

So, you'd better learn to suck it up. And you also need to learn to handle it effectively... and with res

pect.

But yo
u can do...

The biggest question I hear from experienced project managers who are not yet at the top of their career is: 'How can I get more time to think?'



It's easy for a project manager to get overly tied up with your day-to-day...

Project benefits are the reason we do projects. Deliverables are only of any use to the extent that they also realize benefits.



Benefits are measurable improvements that are the outcome of a change your...