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Write a Great Project Description With These Three Questions
Project Management: Assess your project's risk of cancellation with these three questions
Project Management: Five Steps to Project Closeout
Turnaround Unruly Meeting Participants
Your Not-So-Secret Weapon in Controlling Unruly Meetings: The Agenda
How to Write A GREAT Meeting Invite
Prepare for Unruly Meetings with our CLEAR meeting framework
Preview of How to Write a Project Charter Course
Virtual Collaboration Survey Insights: Make a Personal Connection
Virtual Collaboration Survey Insights: Fundamentals Matter!
Reluctant Project Manager? Get your project off the ground with these 3 steps
Collaboration: Who is your First Team?
Collaboration: 3 Steps to Collaborate Virtually
Decision Making: Disagree and Commit
The Pain of Learning
My Project Process - 4 Steps to Organizing Your Project
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Articles
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Stakeholders 101: Tools to Manage the People Who Make or Break Your Project
 1. Stakeholder Engagement PyramidThis tool helps you get started. First you’ll identify your Core project team members, the ones you count on to do the heavy lifting of the project. Then you’ll consider who are Extended Contributors, those who will provide specific expertise or consulting, or hop on the project for just a portion. Finally, you’ll note the Informed folks, who aren’t working on the project and don’t have any direct influence, but are impacted and need to (or maybe just want to) know what’s going on. |
| 2. Stakeholder Power Grid Once you’ve identified your project stakeholders, if your project is complex or highly visible, take the next step with this tool and determine how you’ll work with each of them. Depending on the power a stakeholder has over the project, and their interest, you’ll want to either monitor them, keep them informed, keep them satisfied, or manage them closely. Here’s more detail on how this all works.  |
| 3. Stakeholder Communication Plan Each of your stakeholder groups has different needs and desires regarding communication. How and what you share with them, and how you get information and updates from them, vary widely based on which group they fall in. See an example below, and check out the details to plan out what you’ll share, how you’ll share it, and how often. |
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Three Questions to Assess Your Risk of Project Cancellation
One of the biggest frustrations I’ve experienced as a program manager is seeing my project get canceled. It’s painful to have put thought, time and energy into what I believed…
Prioritize Multiple Projects with this Project Prioritization Template
If you're a project manager (by title or not), you may need to prioritize multiple projects that compete for resources. How do set project priorities? I start by using this…
Closing Out 2024
We love to apply project management concepts to everyday life. As we often say, “Life’s a Project!”. As we launch a new year, you might take a moment to do…
Effective Meetings: Take Control of Unruly Meetings
Meetings are an inescapable part of modern working life, and leading effective meetings is a powerful leadership skill. Clients tell us one of the biggest meeting difficulties they have is…
Project Management: 5 Principles for Project Success
Do you find yourself managing projects when your primary role isn’t formally “project manager”? At work, it could be a new accounting system, marketing effort, or new process. At home,…
Say Goodbye to "Bunch Ball" Decision-Making
Does decision-making in your organization sometimes look like “bunch ball”—you know, when young soccer players swarm the ball, don’t pass, and don’t play positions? Debbie and I have worked with…
Lead Effective Meetings that Work For Everyone
Lead more effective meetings with basic meeting hygiene and an understanding of each other’s meeting preferences.
Five Tips to Overcome the Layoff Workload and Work Smarter
According to layoffs.fyi over 142,000 U.S. employees lost their jobs so far in 2022 and it is climbing every day. Crunchbase News estimates that over 85,000 of them are in the U.S. tech sector as of…
Debbie's Interview by Go Solo
Debbie was interviewed by the cool people at Go Solo. Check out what she says about our customers, our accomplishments, and her best advice for starting, running and growing a…
