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Maximizing your Project Manager’s Effectiveness
Great project managers can be worth their weight in gold. Tight deadlines, budget constraints, politics and competing agendas all serve to create a powder-keg of challenges and problems. I have worked with, and coached project managers within the construction,...
And Now The Hard Part…
It’s not about slow or fast, instead its all about steady and staying the course. Granted steady is not glamourous or even “sexy”. The question to ask is - do you want to succeed via consistent gradual improvement or is being noticed because of a big flash the...
Do People Hear What You Say And Mean?
People don’t care about what you say, and won’t really listen, until they know you care about them. What you say isn’t as important as what they are hearing. Two key factors to improve your communication are your “words” (what you say) and the “music” (what you mean:...
Enough Talk About Your Brand, Let’s Discuss Your Reputation
Personal branding has been a hot topic for years and is certainly an important one. However, we may have lost sight that beyond building our external facing brand we must also build our reputation. The Cambridge Dictionary defines reputation as - The opinion...
“I’m Gonna Tell’ Em What I Think”
It sure feels good when you tell someone what you really think. Especially when they deserve it. You get it off your chest; tear them a fresh page and hopefully teach them a lesson. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. Most of the time it only creates tension,...
Failure is Guaranteed. Recovery is Optional.
History is full of examples of comebacks after personal “failures” such as injury, illness or persecution and set backs or defeats in the public realm of sports, business and politics. Too often, when facing overwhelming odds or defeat, people and organizations fold...
If Nothing Changes, Nothing Happens
If I am honest with myself, and you with yourself, we’ll likely both arrive at the conclusion that in spite of any past dreaming, scheming, goal setting, hoping, planning, or stating - “This time it will be different” (feel free to add your own example as this can...
Reputation Builders For Entrepreneurs (and Intrapreneurs)
Whether you have your own business, are thinking of going on your own, or you are running a division or business unit within a large corporation, the following guidelines for reputation building all apply. Without a strong and positive reputation, the critical word of...
Walk Your Talk – Create a Tribe
It is easier to defer and deflect to others’ shortcomings or failures than to deal with our own. We often defend our attitudes or perspectives based on what we do/don’t do and how we’re different from others to justify our behaviours and beliefs. When this attitude...
Entrepreneurs Must Build a Strong Reputation
As an entrepreneur you have a reputation – positive, neutral or negative. And, as an entrepreneur it is your job to make sure you get noticed, approached and selected. Your reputation will determine how successful you become. When I started my company 26 years ago,...
It’s Not What You’ve Done That Counts – It’s What You Have Learned!
What you have achieved and who you have become may be praise worthy and notable, but what you’ve learned matters more. Reflecting upon, and celebrating achievements, past and present is a good thing. That makes life rich and fulfilling. However, when we live in the...
Change Your Thoughts and You Will Change the World. (It’s not that easy)
Those are words I recently read on a canvas of mass produced “art” in a restaurant. We see words and slogans like that everyday. Many people populate their Facebook pages with similar sentiments. There’s nothing wrong with expressing those thoughts as they can be...
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