It’s Santa’s Deadline – Not Yours!
Is Christmas a good deadline to set yourself and your team for completing your project? Really? In November it is all too easy to see …
Categories: Deadlines
Project planning – a satellite image or a route map?
The strategic level of project management is very different to the way things look at the coal face, and the right approach needs to be …
Categories: Planning
That’s not project management!
This was the cry from a delegate on one of my recent courses when we were looking at time management apps. Good point well made, …
Categories: Practical PM
Are you a process robot?
If we are not careful we can let the process drive the project. What drives the progress in your project? The budget – are we …
Categories: Teams & Communication
How to make friends… and improve productivity
Are you still struggling along managing projects on your own? “It’s stressful, but I get there eventually. By the skin of my teeth. Slightly late. …
Categories: Teams & Communication
Give Yourself some Head Space
How does a man who spends most of his time asleep in his office keep his job? Me and my team-mates used to ask one …
Categories: PM for Small Businesses
Ten Tips for Productive Teams
It’s beginning to dawn on us, finally, that we are all trying to do too much. It’s a common complaint, we hear ourselves and our …
Categories: Teams & Communication
Prioritise for Productivity
You know what it is you need to do to grow your business… all you have to do is… Update your CRM Review your marketing …
Categories: Productivity
Project Management for Micro Businesses
What a great session I had with fellow members of the Business Network in Wakefield last week. How fantastic when people come up to you …
Categories: PM for Small Businesses
The Magic of Action Planning
We all have pieces of work which sit and fester on our to-do lists and this is for a variety of reasons. Here are a …
Categories: Planning
