Goal Setting For Project Managers
How many project managers follow a structured goal setting approach for their project? In other words, how many project managers turn their deliverables and deadlines, into achievable goals? In my experience over the last 25 years, it’s very few and, if they did set goals, they would stand much more chance of delivering their project on […]
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 readingWork To Live Or Live To Work, Which One Are You?
Are you a Freedom Seeker, and work to live, a Profit Seeker, living to work, or maybe you’re a Job Seeker, seeking fulfilment, happiness and job satisfaction.”The really big question are you achieving any of those or just kidding yourselves?”Most Business Executives, and that means Business Owners and Manager/Directors that I speak with fall into […]
Continue reading3 Tips To Get Started With Project Goals
There are two type of Project Managers, the task focussed Project Manager and the goal focussed one. Which one are you? Why Focus on Project Goals? Goal focussed Project Managers are focused on the outcomes of the project and it is always a challenge to get started with a new way of working, so here […]
Continue readingWhat Would I Do Different (if started my Projects from Scratch)
As an experienced Project Professional I am often asked “what I would do differently if I was starting over to ensure that I always delivered my projects on time”. The One Thing One thing that really bugs me is how we have become obsessed with Project Management software, tools and methodologies and most Project Managers […]
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 readingSuccess and Achievement: Why you should never pursue success and achievement as a goal
Are you one of those people who strive for success and achievement, yet the goal that you crave, always seems to elude you?You are, great because you’re in good company. Most people that I meet are striving to achieve goals in one way or another. The big myth though, is that pursuing achievement or success as a […]
Continue reading3 Big Success and Achievement Sapping Mistakes – Mistake #1: Letting the past dictate your future
In the first article in this series we looked at the big success and achievement myth. That myth was that the pursuit of success as a goal is achievable. Success and achievement are such abstract and undefinable concepts that pursuing them as an outcome is too vague and woolly for the mind to grab hold […]
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