Last week I was chatting with a colleague of mine. She was expressing her irritation over a marketing project that caused her a lot of frustration. “My project manager was great at all the project management stuff. But when things…
Whenever people get together to form a project-team, client-team, volunteer team etc., there are four stages the team will go through, and must go through, as part of normal team dynamics. You may have heard of them: forming, storming, norming,…
New! On Twitter? Like quotes? Click to join our beta trial. This article is about the project kick-off meeting, a meeting with your team only—no client—and gives the reasons why such a meeting should be on your radar. I’ve also…
You can relate, I’m sure. An email the other day said “…let’s meet on the phone to discuss, let me know when next week is good for you.” I had this strange feeling that meeting-time ping pong was about to…
This may seem obvious. You are hired to do something because you have skills that are better or faster than what your client can do on his own. Or, you have skills your client simply doesn’t have. Once hired, it…
After asking someone I’ve know professionally for 10 years to join my project, she hit me with this “why did you ask me to join your project?” This caught me off guard, and I was quite taken back by the question.…
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