We invested in wall art rather than a photograph!
“We invested in wall art rather than a photograph”My wife and I have invested in “wall at” which now has pride of place, on the two chimney breasts in our lounge and dining room at home. It’s called wall art because it came out of a chance meeting in a shopping centre, which resulted in hours […]
Continue readingDid you choose your career (or did it choose you)?
Let me start with asking you, “why do you do what you do”? Was it a conscious choice or was it accidental? It’s probably a strange question to most of you, yet it’s one I often find myself answering without being asked it directly. But then you might have fallen into a job that you never planned or […]
Continue readingManaging Change: 3 Reasons Why PMO Procedures aren’t adopted
As a PMO Manager, have you ever struggled to get your Project Managers and Project Teams to change and adopt new ways of working? It’s a common thing, that the PMO designs a new methodology and then Project Managers are reluctant to adopt them. Whether, it’s a new tool, new reports or new procedures, the problem is […]
Continue readingThe “Coffee on the Go Trap” (and what to do instead)
Are you one of the millions caught in the ‘coffee on the go’ trap?We’ve all been there, no time to sit and have a cup of coffee (or whatever your favourite drink); got to get on the road, I’m late, got to go to a meeting, get the kids, go to the gym, rush, rush, […]
Continue readingWhy Tasks are Left Unfinished?
Every Business Owner wants to make a profit (unless you’re a not for profit organisation or charity), that’s why you are an Entrepreneur. How many assignments, goals or tasks do you start and never finish, or delay starting that could increase your profits?The truth is that starting a new assignment is easy, finishing them is […]
Continue readingCan a Professional Project Manager Avoid Stress?
When reading a recent discussion on Linkedin about stress, I was astounded at the responses. The question asked, and all of the responses were about how to manage it rather than prevent it. This for me is tackling the wrong end of the problem and that as Project Managers, we should be avoiding it in the […]
Continue readingMake 2017 Your Best Every Year
2017 and the new year is just around the corner and every year round about now I hear so many people expressing in shock “It’s only two weeks to Christmas, I just don’t know where the year has gone”. Well guess what? It happens every year at the same time, Christmas I mean. Every year […]
Continue readingWhat To do When We Lose Our Heroes (Take Action)
It’s always sad when our heroes pass on to greater things and the real question is what can we take away from their death. As we come to the close of 2016 I’ve heard the news that one of my musical heroes has passed away, the legendary Greg Lake. Greg was in the original line […]
Continue readingHow successful is your project? (A short quiz)
Are you a Career Project Manager that has suffered the ‘ups and downs’ of Project Success? One minute your project is a roaring success the next minute it’s falling behind and over budget. Well if you said yes, then you’re in the company of thousands of others in the same predicament, and you’re also probably […]
Continue readingWork Life Balance Myths: Myth #3 – Your can’t change your futrure
In the first article in the series, we introduced the idea that work life balance is seen as something of a “holy Grail” and that working longer and longer hours just to keep your head above the water, is keeping everyone happy except yourself.In the second article, we explored how most people believe that they […]
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