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Investor’s Business Daily on Lessons Learned

I was contacted by a gentleman from Investor’s Business Daily in regards to a post I had done a while back on lessons learned. Here’s a brief article he wrote in which I am quoted. Just Made A Huge Mistake? 7 Ways To Learn From It  BY MOREY STETTNER, FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY   Risk-taking leaders often

Announcing My Debut Book On Project Planning Meetings

My new co-authored book, “How To Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings,” will be available on November 20, 2018. https://tinyurl.com/ycn37yb2 As per the book blurb: “Project planning often tends to be done piecemeal or not at all, often leading to missing and/or incomplete information and correspondingly poor results. This practical guide to

Planning for Your Facilitated Workshop

I wrote a post a while back on using facilitated workshops to jump-start your project planning. As I work on my book, it occurs to me how important it is to plan for your planning session. Not only do you want it to run like clockwork, you want as few people as is humanly possible to show up and say, “Why are we here again?” Let’s be honest here – the workshop

How to Run a More Effective Project Meeting

I read an article a while back regarding the topic of meetings. According to a study, the typical American professional attends over 60 meetings per month, approximately 50% of meeting time is wasted and – my favorite – 39% of people doze off during the meeting! The reason I’m writing this article today is simple – yesterday, once again, someone

How to Run a Lessons Learned Meeting

It should be mandatory at the end of every project – and if possible at the end of every phase –  to run a lessons learned session. And not only run it, but make sure that it’s documented and – unless highly sensitive – available to all future projects. Here’s how to do it: –Be sure that you have an agenda. People hate to come to meetings and not