How to Prioritize Ideas for Action
Use a PICK chart to help a group prioritize a stack of ideas they’ve brainstormed and turn them into action.
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Concise analysis for decision-making
The SBAR technique is a concrete, easy-to-remember framework for getting the information you need to make a good decision.
Pint-size Portfolio Management
This simple dashboard for a small portfolio it is a great way to communicate, monitor status, and encourage good discussions about what projects can or should be undertaken.
Collaboration in Cyberspace
It’s hard to do highly interactive activities in the online work world we’re all stuck in. Here’s how to use a virtual whiteboard and stickies to help.
Get AMP’ed Up about Motivation
Leaders arrange work and teams so that they connect people to each other in meaningful ways. Use the CAMP acronym to help you do it.
How Organizations Change
Organizations are constantly confronted with the need to change. So let’s look at what change management experts say about changing an organization.
How People React to Change
Change always swirls around us – it is one of the hallmarks of our era. But it is especially visible in this unprecedented time of pandemic, economic disruption, and pressing […]
The Bozo Box
I suddenly remembered the Bozo Box! Let me explain. Last week, the Portfolio and Project Leaders’ Forum hosted Dorota Shortell, CEO of Simplexity Product Development. She spoke about how she […]
Tailoring management approach to project characteristics
One size does not fit all Not in clothing (I am tall so I feel this first hand), nor in managing projects. Tailoring is required, whether for a high level […]
Poor project portfolio management (PPM) criteria
Sorry for being silent this fall. I’ve been teaching my class in OHSU’s MBA in Healthcare Management program, and it took just about every minute I could find. During the […]