Why Is My Team Broken?

Does it seem like your team is broken? Is it hard to figure out why? Sometimes it is helpful to look at it from a different perspective. We recently came across a video of a presentation by Seth Godin on “7 Types of Broken.” We found that his reasons shed light or at least provide a different perspective on the potential root causes of your team problems. Continue reading

Can Optimism Influence Your Team's Work Performance?

In this post, we discuss the findings of a paper from the University of Pennsylvania on whether teams are more engaged and productive when led by an optimistic manager. Continue reading

How To Incentivize Knowledge Workers

Do you think that the knowledge workers on your project teams are more efficient and work better when they are motivated? How do you motivate and incentivize them? Here is a video from RSAnimate on what motivates and how to incentivize knowledge workers. You will find it very interesting. Continue reading

The Resource Management Ping-Pong Effect

A common fallacy that is so easy to hang on to is that any problem in our project work can be solved by throwing people at it. An important customer is not happy? Throw some good resources at it. The problem is that this is short-sided thinking, it creates inefficiencies (and thus costs), and it often produces rather than solves reactive and firefighting modes. Continue reading

Top Ten List: Top Ten Signs You Need to Improve Your Resource Management Practices

According to PM Solutions whitepaper, Resource Management and the PMO, 74.4% of organizations have a low resource management maturity level. Here are the top ten signs that you need to improve your own resource management practices. Continue reading

Ensuring Compliance to Project Management SOPs

This is another post from our sister blog, www.flyingintoprojectmanagement.com. This post derives specific lessons on implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs) that is an essential ingredient of driving efficiency in our organizations and resource management practices. Continue reading

Three Causes of Resource Inefficiency

Inefficiency is a bad word today. We are focused on making our projects, teams, and organizations as efficient as possible, rooting out costly inefficiency and redundancy. Even areas of the government are starting to do this. One of the primary areas of inefficiency is in our project teams - aka resource inefficiency. What makes are resources not operate at an optimal level? What causes them to work inefficiently? Here are three that the author has discovered in his own experience. Continue reading

How Organizational Culture Impacts Project Management Excellence

This is another interesting post from our sister blog - Flying into Project Management. This post goes into how organizational culture impacts project management excellence. As you read this, think about how organizational culture specifically impacts the performance of your resources and teams. Continue reading

Don't Accomplish So Much

Why would we not try to accomplish so much? After all, we are in the age of being as productive as possible right? I have been reminded of an important lesson recently, and that is the value of not trying to accomplish too much. This plays into getting the most out of your teams as well. Continue reading

Building Redundancy in Project Management and Project Teams

Check out this blog post in the Flying Into Project Management blog on Building Redundancy in Project Management and Project Teams. Note the comment about building skill redundancy in our project teams. Continue reading