Kick-Off Meetings

The purpose of the kick-off meeting is basically to gain alignment with your team on the vision of the project, who is involved and what the road-map is for how the project will be accomplished. Having a good project kick-off meeting satisfies the following needs:...

The Project Manager’s Quick Start Guide

You are smart and talented – attributes your boss notices when assigning you to lead the company’s next big project. It’s an exciting opportunity, but it also comes with high risk and visibility. You need to make sure everything goes well, but you don’t know where to...

Leadership and Environment: The Leader’s Role

A few years ago, I inherited a project team that just was not performing very well.  They barely made deadlines and their work while passable was certainly not inspiring. They were content with the status quo and the motivation to do better was just not there. After a...