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Collaborate! It’s a team effort!

According to Wikipedia, collaboration “is a recursive process where two or more people work together in an intersection of common goals by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.”

When employees collaborate, they improve communication within the organization. Collaboration allows for different ideas from different people to generate a wide variety of knowledge and better make […]

How Do You Make a Decision?

Indecision

How do you make decisions? Which of these can you relate to?

Reactive: Do the first thing that comes into your head. No planning, no brainstorming – just react immediately. No thoughts about the impact of the decision. You feel like you have to make a decision quickly.

Or…

Proactive: Think about the […]

Methods for Distributing Information on Projects

Ensuring that the right people (such as stakeholders, project team members, project sponsors, etc.) get the right information at the right time for project status and to make decisions on projects requires a great deal of planning. Effective distribution of information relies on the selection of the right tools and methods to ensure you reach […]

Hey Project Sponsor – We Need Your Help Please!

First, let’s define Sponsor. According to the Project Management Institute’s, The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide, the Sponsor “is the person or group [of people] that provides the financial resources, in cash or in kind, for the project.” As defined by Wikipedia.com, “….(t)he project sponsor will be a senior executive in a corporation […]

The Five Stages of Team Development – Every Team Goes Through Them! (Part II)

The first part of this post discussed the first two stages of team development:

Stage 1: Forming Stage 2: Storming

This post will cover the remaining three stages:

Stage 3: Norming Stage 4: Performing Stage 5: Adjourning Stage 3: Norming

When the team moves into the “norming” stage, they are beginning to work more effectively […]