Assess Me Please Part 1
This posting is the penultimate posting in a series designed to help you get the most out of your training assessments. Employees have most likely been over assessed, and may have participated in a...
View ArticleAssess Me Please Part 2
In part 1 of this blog posting I covered the first two principles that will help employees understand why and how to participate actively in training assessments. The first two principles we covered...
View ArticleLeveraging the Data from Your Smart Sheets
On my previous blogs, I talked a lot about how to move your course-end “Smile” sheets to “Smart” sheets. Smart sheets collect the basic level 1 & 2 data, but also predictive level 3 & 4 data...
View ArticleBuilding a culture of collaboration
When two or more are gathered, good ideas turn to great ones. Smart companies are beginning to see that two heads really are better than one. In the past decade, businesses have entered the age of...
View ArticleThe PMO Business Case
Any business case should focus on and define the key problems that the solution should address. In this case it is the investment in a PMO. For any change to take place and be supported there has to be...
View ArticleOut with the old and in with the new
At the start of a brand new year we are supposed to look back at the closing year and to look forward to what lies ahead of us in the coming 12 months, and the same is true of the PMOs that we are all...
View ArticleOut with the old and in with the new – Part 2
Part Two So here you are, leading a successful PMO and all is well with the world. Last year was a good one and there has been general acceptance of the work that the PMO is undertaking and perhaps...
View ArticleWhy competency assessment is crucial for self-development
Project managers who want to progress need to take control of their career development. Even those who have been working on projects for years need to identify what their skills are, in order to...
View ArticleWhen should a project actually end?
The classic view of projects, and project management, is that a project ends when the deliveries are handed over. But project teams should have at least some level of responsibility when it comes to...
View ArticleFive ways for project managers to share lessons learned
We all know that capturing lessons learned is an essential part of making sure that future projects go well, but capturing and sharing them seems to be something that we don’t feel we do particularly...
View ArticleOur Training Programme Is Improving Business Results, Right? Using Training...
In part 1 of this blog posting I explained that applying the five principles which were outlined in my first 2 blog postings to your executive stakeholders will help you to foster the level of...
View ArticleOur Training Programme Is Working…I Think What Learning & Development...
Learning and development professionals are responsible for implementing training programmes that teach the relevant skills employees need to be successful in their jobs. However, even when training...
View ArticleOur Training Programme Is Working…I Think What Learning & Development...
In part 1 of this posting we covered the first 2 principles: Align Purpose with Situation and Context is Key. Here I will go through the next 3 principles. 3. Not All Assessments Are Created Equal –...
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To Certify or Not to Certify – That is the Question!
A while back I worked within an enterprise Project Management Office and had the job title “Special Projects Manager”. Now some of may see this as a glorified way to describe the guy who gets all the...
View ArticleMeasuring the Impact – It is not Mission Impossible: Part 1
Leaders of PMO’s, COE’s and Learning and Development departments have historically been willing to buy hope. They believed that if they invest in developing the skills of their people (project...
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Measuring the Impact – It is not Mission Impossible: Part 2
It is all about current state: OR If you don’t know where you’ve been, how do you know where you are going? If you are ever faced with establishing current state to help with your metrics, consider the...
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To Certify or not to Certify, That is the Question!
Before becoming a project manager I had been working as a hardware engineer for a computer company. One day I was called to solve a problem with a computer that seemed to have caught fire whilst one of...
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The Process is not the Objective
1. Background For quite a number of years, organisations have seen a need to prove their “excellence” in an objective way to their current and potential clients. This has led to a proliferation of...
View ArticleLinking Learning Effectiveness with Project Performance Part 2
As mentioned in the previous blog, an easy, scalable and repeatable project assessment is needed. Something that is based in the then current realities of projects, is actionable, and gets multiple...
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If Your Business Cases Focus Solely on ROI, Your Organisation Could Be...
Your business case should be more than a financial document; it should be a strategy document. Crafting a business case that shows a strong return on investment can be powerful, but those numbers alone...
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