This post picks up from my previous one on negotiations, and adds some more of my thoughts on the actual process.
The Communicator Is Responsible for Transmission
I cannot stress this enough. If you are trying to send a message to someone, and you don’t take the time [...]
Okay, so yesterday I got a bit snarky and went on a terrible rant about poor Prince Humphrey and the abysmal negotiation tactics that got him into trouble. Today I wanted to calm things down and talk about negotiation a little bit. I have some specific suggestions for new negotiators that might help [...]
Read more and share your opinion →The other day I wrote a response to Elizabeth Harrin’s post about measuring the success of project management training. I’ve been thinking about that post off-and-on since I wrote it. I’ve especially been thinking about the example I gave about a stakeholder who doesn’t want to box himself into [...]
Read more and share your opinion →So, I was just over on Elizabeth Harrin’s blog, rabidly trying to catch up on her posts (she’s one of my favourites) after crunch week at university. While I was there, I caught her piece, Is Project Management Training Really Effective?
In the post, she presents some research that indicates project [...]
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A few years ago I was managing a complex enterprise program where we had a status review meeting with our vendor every Wednesday. I inherited these meetings from my predecessor. Weekly reviews are important, so I kept them. We had appropriate representation with myself, the vendor, and the program’s key stakeholders. We had a weekly [...]
Read more and share your opinion →I found a great question on LinkedIn the other day, and I thought I’d share my thoughts on it here.
The question was, “how do you tell a CEO that he/she is the problem when consulting to help solve ‘the problem’?”
It’s a very common issue, isn’t it? CEOs [...]
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