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• What Happens When the Top Dog Leaves?
  Published 1 May 2009
  Departing employees can have a tremendous impact on an organization if it is not properly prepared and equipped to handle it – especially if the employee is one of the “Top Dogs.” How the departure affects your productivity Ready or...
• How to Calculate ROI
  Published 16 March 2009
  Recently my co-worker Rich asked us all “ Why Bother with Return on Investment (ROI)? ” As Rich points out, most managers sing the praises of understanding ROI without practicing what they preach. I myself don’t calculate ROI nearly...
• New eCourse: How to Manage a Project
  Published 7 January 2009
  Recently we announced three new eCourses designed to help your business soften the blow from the recession and over the next week or so I’m going to expand on the details of all those eCourses. I’ll begin with our new eCourse on project management...
• Three New eCourses to Help You Recession-Proof Your Business Now
  Published 5 January 2009
  Economic times are tough, and will be for a while. Now is the time to cut fat without cutting muscle. But how do you actually do it? Well, fortunately we have three new eCourses which will help provide you with some basic ideas on how you can: Cut operating...
• Making Milestones Matter
  Published 16 October 2008
  In our most recent post, we introduced you to project milestones and how they can be used to effectively measure the progress of your projects. To recap: Milestones should be obvious—anyone on your project team should be able to easily recognize...
• Introduction to Milestones
  Published 14 October 2008
  Over the past couple of weeks we’ve covered a variety of project planning concepts, like breaking up large tasks and recognizing shared dependencies between tasks . One subject that we have not covered is how to definitively measure progress in...
• The Art of Assignment
  Published 10 October 2008
  In our most recent article, we talked about how to schedule tasks using project charts . If you read it then you already have a good idea of how to correctly order and prioritize tasks. In today’s article we’re going to discuss how to build...
• Scheduling Tasks with Project Charts
  Published 8 October 2008
  The first step to becoming a more efficient project manager is to decompose your project into small tasks using mind maps , an issue which we discussed last week. Today we’re going to address the second step in the process, which is setting the...
• Decomposing Tasks with Mind Maps
  Published 3 October 2008
  Many projects are delivered late —one of the key reasons being that the tasks assigned to team members are too broad or vague. You might be asking yourself “what’s wrong with broad tasks?” As I answered in my most recent post,...

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