Very interesting tutorial for making Concept Maps Lucid Charts
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Managing Anxiety and Stress
By Tom Peters - www.tompeters.com
Stay balanced in the face of stress and anxiety with our collection of tools and advice.
- First, bring calm and clarity into your life with these 10 tips.
- Next, identify what you are dealing with: Is it worry, anxiety or stress?
- Consider a mental health day. Here is how to make the most of them.
- Embrace these three Scandinavian secrets to resilience.
- Stress is unavoidable in modern life, but it doesn’t have to get you down. This guide can help you keep in check.
- As fall approaches, you might be feeling down and anxious. Here is how you can manage those end-of-summer feelings with grace.
- Can supplements help with depression or anxiety? Here’s what the evidence says about what works — and what doesn’t.
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Agile in the IT Project Management Landscape
Three things to review and to get started with IT Agile
- Thoroughly research the growing trend of Agile methodology in IT projects and its impact on project success.
- Discuss the benefits and challenges of Agile compared to traditional project management approaches.
- Document the benefits for IT project managers and your organization considering adopting Agile practices.
- Present findings to your organization with a path to move forward or keep current practices in place.
Thursday, September 01, 2022
Sunday, August 14, 2022
All You Need to Know - by Tom Peters
Women buy everything.
Old people have all the money.
Women are [significantly| better leaders.
Beauty/grace/character is the design standard for a ball gown or a block of code.
Be the best. Not the biggest.
Every team should have a music or theater major aboard.
Moral behavior is the unswerving standard.
Excellence is not a "hill to climb;' excellence is the next five minutes.
Community-mindedness is the norm.
Investment in relationships is the first 90 percent of effectiveness.
Execution beats strategy.
Kindness, always.
READ MORE AT - https://tompeters.com
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Your Communication Isn't Working!
When project teams are surveyed at the end of failed projects, poor communications is always cited as being one of the major causes. Why does this keep happening? Why is project communications so poorly executed so often? My short answer is that many project managers are arrogant, inattentive, and oblivious to the feelings and needs of the project team.
Project managers get busy. Many times they don't make time to manage project communications properly. Also, the project manager may think they are doing a good job communicating, but that may not be the case.
Project managers must remember that the project team is made up of individuals. Each person on the team has a preference for the types of communication they like to receive, and each person processes communications differently.
Some things to monitor that may point to poor project communications are:
Trust - Does the team trust you (the project manager)? How do you know? Everybody will not trust you all the time. Team members that don't trust the project manager will not be open in their communications. They will tend to either shut down or challenge the project manager at every turn.
De-motivated - Where are we going? Are we going where we said we were going when we started? Did we clearly state where we were going before we started?
Whining - Despair and anxiety take over the team or key team members. Infighting is prevalent and people are starting to talk openly about the project being a failure.
Incompetence - Team isn't sharing information and learning. Perhaps the team has had little to no training, or the training received was of poor quality.
All the above can be overcome, however it requires that the project manager is listening and changing strategy when necessary to get the team back on track. Just because you are a project manager doesn't make you a good communicator, however ignoring problems like the ones mentioned above will make you a bad project manager.
My two cents are, be a leader. Lead through your communication and your ability to motivate your team to get the job done. Be on the lookout for the above warning signs. When you see signs of the warning signs act quickly, follow-up, then continue to monitor.
Poor project team synergy is the fault of the project manager. There are a lot of incompetent project managers that are hurting our profession because they either refuse to alter their communication styles or are too arrogant to change. My advice to them is to change their ways or leave the project management profession.
Project managers must remember that the project team is made up of individuals. Each person on the team has a preference for the types of communication they like to receive, and each person processes communications differently.
Some things to monitor that may point to poor project communications are:
Trust - Does the team trust you (the project manager)? How do you know? Everybody will not trust you all the time. Team members that don't trust the project manager will not be open in their communications. They will tend to either shut down or challenge the project manager at every turn.
De-motivated - Where are we going? Are we going where we said we were going when we started? Did we clearly state where we were going before we started?
Whining - Despair and anxiety take over the team or key team members. Infighting is prevalent and people are starting to talk openly about the project being a failure.
Incompetence - Team isn't sharing information and learning. Perhaps the team has had little to no training, or the training received was of poor quality.
All the above can be overcome, however it requires that the project manager is listening and changing strategy when necessary to get the team back on track. Just because you are a project manager doesn't make you a good communicator, however ignoring problems like the ones mentioned above will make you a bad project manager.
My two cents are, be a leader. Lead through your communication and your ability to motivate your team to get the job done. Be on the lookout for the above warning signs. When you see signs of the warning signs act quickly, follow-up, then continue to monitor.
Poor project team synergy is the fault of the project manager. There are a lot of incompetent project managers that are hurting our profession because they either refuse to alter their communication styles or are too arrogant to change. My advice to them is to change their ways or leave the project management profession.
Sunday, May 01, 2022
The Junction of Dysfunction
When you go to meetings, pretend to listen then walk away and criticize those you just met with, that is dysfunction
When you pretend to trust others, but look for ways to poke holes in their beliefs, that is dysfunctionWhen you reward mediocrity…dysfunction
When you create something that has questionable value yet hold it up as something awesome….hyper-dysfunction
When you support and encourage weak "leaders" that cause upheaval and mayhem …you have dysfunction
When enterprise standards and processes are ignored…you guessed it…dysfunction
When commitments are made than ignored…yep…more dysfunction
When the people in ivory towers refuse to sit down with the commoners... dysfunction
When you reward your team for winning the silent “us vs. them” war… dysfunction is the winner (guess who is the loser)
When you allow a rogue manager to steamroll others inside and outside your department…you have dysfunction
When you treat your staff like mushrooms (leaving them in the dark)…you again have dysfunction
In closing…be real, be relevant, be a team player, and most of all be trustworthy. Nobody respects a talking head. You have to be visible, engaged and respected to be effective and relevant.
Remember, if you aren't visibile you aren't relevant and if you aren't relevant you aren't needed.