The Eighth Annual PolyHouse: Another Miracle in the Making
Spring Is the Season for Project Magic
Project planning and funding are usually high on our priority lists, whether for kicking off a new business endeavor, supporting a worthy community effort, planting a spring garden, or reorganizing our places of work.
The month of May also heralds a remarkable annual effort by our local university’s project management students, an undertaking known as the “PolyHouse Project” that is coordinated by Dr. Roya Javadpour.
This week I gave another talk on estimating at a meeting jointly sponsored by my local chapters of
From time to time, I enjoy giving a presentation on estimating to professional groups or clients. Whether it’s to very savvy and seasoned project professionals or to people with very little project experience, we recognize that we all have a big challenge in common: estimating accurately.
Spring offers the perfect time to “imagineer” everything we aim to do in the year ahead.
It’s exciting to imagine how many great new beginnings the remaining months of 2011 will bring! At this very moment, if you’re anything like me, you are probably incubating several novel ideas that you would love to hatch this year.
As the New Year gets into swing, many organizations are looking for every possible advantage to counteract the current economic uncertainty. If your group is one of them, then I have terrific news for you — there is much more valuable information yet to glean from the wealth of recent employee engagement research, the subject of my
Today’s newsletter focuses on the important topic of employee engagement — a great subject to kick off the new year. Companies are looking for every possible competitive advantage during our protracted economic recovery, and this is one of them!
In today’s issue, we continue exploring the timing, tools, and techniques for developing the strengths and talents of your personnel. Should you train or use a different approach to close an achievement gap? And when you do train, how can you make sure that the training “sticks”?
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