Project Managers: Do you need a change management workstream on your project?
In the dynamic landscape of project management, one question often arises: Should we integrate a change management workstream into our project strategy? To be clear, when I say change management it means the management of organizational changes and attention to the...How to Use Clean Language to promote change adoption
Clean Language, pioneered by David Grove, is a unique communication technique employing specific, non-leading questions to delve into an individual’s thoughts and emotions while minimizing the interviewer’s influence. Often centered around metaphors, it...How to decrease the number of meetings in your life
Want to decrease the number of meetings for your team? Try using more asynchronous collaboration. Instead of face-to-face real-time meetings, you could try one of the following tools for asynchronous collaboration. Note: I left email off this list because there are so...Watch out for the 7 Wastes of Poor Collaboration:
Defects: The need for repeating a message because it wasn’t clear in the first place. Overproduction: Completing something others will need to approve to 100%, without getting their early alignment. Overprocessing: Going off-topic and losing focus on the...Watch for signs of loneliness in the people around you!
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently declared loneliness a public health epidemic, warning that isolation can increase the risk of an early death by 60%‚ At the equivalent of smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness...