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Rewards to Motivate Performance
When you do a good job, you like to feel appreciated and as a leader, rewarding good performance is one of the key ways to keep your team motivated. However, there is a significant difference in the...
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It is OK to ask for help
Far too many people think that asking for help is a sign of failure or weakness. In fact the opposite is true. If you don’t know something and waste your time trying to find out, or worse still make an...
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Leading Knowledge Workers
Peter Drucker announced the passing of the ‘command and control’ style of business leadership in the 1950s. He and others recognised it is an act of futility to tell a person she MUST come up with a...
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It’s OK not to know!
You do not need to know everything! Unfortunately, to maintain their authority many project managers and other leaders feel they need to be the expert that has the answer to every question. They think...
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Developing your team
If you are a leader, you are responsible for building the team you lead! One of the key stakeholder management roles fulfilled by effective team leaders and project managers is helping their team...
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Tired workers lose their ethics
Having recently suffered a week of extreme temperatures and sleepless nights in Melbourne, with more to come, everyone is aware of some of the effects of sleep deprivation including short tempers, the...
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The art of giving feedback
One of the key supervisory skills needed by every leader is the ability to give feedback to their team on individual performance. The reason is simple, if the team don’t know what you expect from them,...
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Technology and management
As many readers of this blog know, I am interested in history focused on understanding how the professional discipline of project management has evolved over the years. But digging into the history of...
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If you screw-up, own-up
One of the traits that strong leaders and credible advisers have is the willingness to ‘own up’ to mistakes they’ve made. No one operating effectively as a project or program manager, or for that...
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How to succeed as a PM in 2016
Projects are done by people for people and through the medium of social media, people power is growing. Successful project managers know this and use it to their advantage; they create a team culture...
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