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How Do you Manage Change and Communication for Multi-level Management Organizations During a Transformation?
Implementing change in any organization is complex; however, critical for customer satisfaction, financial security, and growth. Using leading practice change management techniques, you can begin to understand how a transformation will impact your organization and how the people will build cultural acceptance and sustain results well beyond implementation…
Have you Ever Worked on a Project Where the Scope Significantly Changed from the Original Statement of Work?“According to the Project Management Institute (PMI) 2018 Pulse of the Profession 52 % of projects completed in the last 12 months experienced scope creep or uncontrolled changes to the project's scope—up from 43 percent five years ago….
Why are Companies Moving to Agile Project Management Methodologies?
“In projects with evolving requirements, high risk, or significant uncertainty (usually software projects), the scope is not often understood at the beginning of the project. Agile (adaptive) methods spend less time trying to define and agree on scope in the early stage of a project and spend more time establishing the process for its ongoing discovery and refinement….
Wondering How the WBS differs from Requirements, Scope of Work and Project Plan?
You are not alone! The WBS process is a component of all three, let’s review its key elements and purpose…
How Do you Manage Change and Communication for Multi-level Management Organizations During a Transformation?
Implementing change in any organization is complex; however, critical for customer satisfaction, financial security, and growth. Using leading practice change management techniques, you can begin to understand how a transformation will impact your organization and how the people will build cultural acceptance and sustain results well beyond implementation.
Enhance your Staff Performance with Effective Training
Lack of staff performance and meeting departmental metrics are attributed to people, process and/or technology gaps. It’s common for organizations to have inconsistent views where most of the challenges fall. It’s best to perform a thorough assessment to identify what’s working well and opportunities across departments by interviewing executive leadership, management, and frontline staff. At some point you will discover effective training will be one of your key recommendations.
“Empowerment is based on the idea that giving employees skills, resources, authority, opportunity, motivation, as well holding them responsible and accountable for outcomes of their actions, will contribute to their competence and satisfaction.”–Association for Talent Development (ATD)…
Knowing how to communicate with specific audiences before a presentation at work will increase your engagement, retention, and penetration outcomes. The goal of a presenter is to educate individuals about new or updated information that will stay in their minds…
Don’t put your audience to sleep! Reading slides verbatim with NO background / context examples, NO ice breakers to introduce participants, NO change in voice pitch, NO group activities or knowledge checks, NOT allowing questions during a presentation are real communication KILLERS!….
Submitting a few applications with no communication with hiring managers, current employees, or experts in your network and expecting to quickly land a job is a thing of the past! Networking is the catalyst to building relationships with various individuals who can share industry knowledge, provide guidance, and connect you with decision makers to advance your career. Organizations have suffered greatly from hiring individuals lacking skills, not meeting productivity targets, deficient in cultural competence and resisting change. They are collaborating with human resource leaders to eliminate these occurrences and relying on employee referral programs…
The best part about being human is that we have a choice in what we think, how we feel, and how we choose to act. And being confident, is an essential component for anyone looking for success in their career. Confidence at the workplace is knowing what you’re good at and the values you provide to the organization. In reality, self-confidence is often a more important asset than skill and knowledge, or even experience. Anytime we step into the zone of certainty and confidence, it gives us a sense of power, strength and help us to evolve as a better person. As with everything in life, being confident or timid, happy or sad are all choices.”- Career Geek