http://successful-consultants.com/management Management and Mentoring Mon, 04 May 2009 11:57:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've always stood by the belief that strong people skills (a far reaching topic in itself) are critical to the success of any manager or leader, whether they're a Project Manager or CEO. Certainly there are those who exist without those skills, but their success and longevity are often minimal, ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=255 The APM Programme Management Specific Interest Group recently published the following article I wrote: I’ve observed the efforts of a number of organisations to build a PMO. In some cases, the term PMO is used with the letter ‘P’ interchangeably representing the words programme and project because no one seems to ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=254 I thought I would post this article that I wrote for the APM Programme Management Specific Interest Group newsletter last year. Many aspects of life rely on communication. School, parenting, relationships, sport, politics, social and business are just a few. The trouble is, when communication is performed poorly or not at ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=237 The likes of Harvard, Stephen Covey and other respected names in business support the fact that leaders need to empathise strongly with their followers and care about what they are feeling. Good leaders give people what they need, and not necessarily what they want and leaders must balance respect for ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=228 Stakeholder Management helps us ensure successful change. It helps managers assess and manage the environment around the planned programme and brings out the interests of the stakeholders and identifies potential conflicts to assign a level of risk or challenges to the programme's success. It also helps identify existing relationships between ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=213 It's been a few months that I've been blogging from a professional perspective and I find it an ideal way to communicate with the many people that I've worked with in the past and to share knowledge. I was interested in Bain & Company's recent article on how corporate blogging ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=179 ProgM is the Programme Management Specific Interest Group of the Association for Project Management and the British Computer Society. I have to say that the March issue of the the ProgM Newsletter is the best yet. The table of contents includes: - The ProgM Olympics 2012 Event - Partnership Governance: Getting it ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=218 Most well run organisations will have risk managed at four distinct levels which are; Corporate/Strategic, Programme, Project and Operational. To do this effectively, a framework for managing risk needs to be designed and implemented to address the following: 1. how risks are identified; 2. how information about their probability and potential impact ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=171 It´s amazing in business life, we sometimes ignore basic facts. For example the need to communicate. Communicate and you will survive. Krauthammer provides consultancy-based training and coaching for clients all over the world. Synonymous with lasting performance improvement, Krauthammer is most active at the fusion of the individual, team, and corporate ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=246 I wrote this article for the British Computer Society's Programme Management special interest group newsletter ProgM, which was published earlier this month. Tony Blair Once Said; "I am pleased that one of its (the Improving Programme and Project Delivery Report) key recommendations - establishing Programme and Project Management 'centres of excellence' ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=240 I had a mail from Programme and Project Management guru Geoff Reiss whilst in New Zealand. His book "Project Management Demystified" has now become a best seller in the UK world of project management and the new 3rd edition should extend the already significant readership. It provides a very accessible ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=238 Most of us have witnessed a few dreadful PowerPoint presentations in our time. I'm sure most of us are also guilty of giving presentations that we could have been done so much better. The Communications expert Bert Decker has published a really interesting article on his Blog about using black ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=231 Many Project Managers believe that to enjoy total project management success, you need to manage projects using a formal project management methodology. They say it helps give you direction, it saves you time and it improves the quality of your deliverables. But does it? Most good managers use a methodology of ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=232 I've done a heck of a lot of interviewing in recent months; of people who have applied for Project and Programme Management roles. In this time, I've come across some superb CVs and spoken with some very articulate and switched on managers who display strong communication skills. I've also been ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=137 This is the 100th article to be posted on the Blog and I thought it would be very fitting to have something extra special published to mark this milestone. I'm pleased that one of the world's leading project and programme management mentors has this morning offered me this great article ... http://successful-consultants.com/management/?p=230