EPC Contracts – The Owners’ Perspective
This online seminar is developed by a project management professional for project professionals.
It aims to equip project personnel with requisite Risk Management and Contracts competencies for career progress.
Leadership Development for New Managers and Leaders – Module 2
This course is for you if you or your organization need to: Build more leaders that can handle more responsibilities, build trust, deal with business needs for more leaders, develop or improve organization culture, empower others, deal with feeling overwhelmed, improve performance or results, improve team communication, mentor others, implement succession planning, have tough conversations, deal with difficult relationships (people), manage conflict.
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expertise. For that reason, you have been promoted into leadership roles. But your technical expertise has not translated into leadership effectiveness.
Read MoreHow to Prepare a Recovery Plan that Works
Finally, a book that guides you step-by-step through the process of preparing recovery plans that work is here for you.
You no longer have to go through endless rounds of preparation of ineffective recovery plans that do not lead to project recovery. But you will now invest your time doing those things that move the needle for your project, your organization, and your career.
This eBook will introduce you to sure-fire project diagnostic methods and tools as well as potent prescriptions that bring your projects back on track, when applied.
ALL SYSTEMS LOCKED AND READY!
This course is particularly important to us because Google Report, month after month, shows that most visitors to our site were searching for recovery plan related materials. This will terminate the nightmare of many planning engineers, project managers, and project owners.
Read MoreHOW TO PREPARE A RECOVERY PLAN THAT WORKS
This half-day workshop on How to Prepare a Recovery Plan that Works will walk you through the step-by-step process of setting a cutoff date, carrying out a comprehensive/ joint schedule review, conducting root-cause-analysis, isolating root causes, resolving issues, and developing a recovery plan. It will also review productivity issues that need to be considered including overtime deterioration.
Read MoreSEASONS GREETINGS
It is that time of year again when we have to look back and take stock. Well, regardless of what our experiences have been, we need to show gratitude.
There is no point in beating ourselves over the head if the year has not yielded us the expected results. We should rather conduct a thorough review, take not of what worked, learn from what did not work, and plan to make the coming year better.
Read MoreProject Management for Busy Professionals
Date: 17 – 21 Jan 2022 This is a foundational course that cuts through the clutter and focuses on the key principles of project management. It offers a stream-lined approach to project management gleaned from the best practices of experienced, effective project professionals and managers. It is intended for anyone who needs to lead or…
Read MoreEVERYONE COMMUNICATES FEW CONNECT MASTERMIND TRAINING
Learn the art of connecting during this unique experience! To Sign Up with USD Credit or Debit Card CLICK HERE To Sign Up with NGN Credit or Debit Card CLICK HERE
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I am preparing a project planning course for project managers, project engineers, planning engineers and other project personnel. I would like to know what you would like to see in such a course to give you maximum value. Please, take a few moments to respond to this short survey. Your opinion is important to me…
Read MoreSTRATEGIC PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR
Strategic Personal Development will take you where EXPERIENCE ALONE CANNOT!
This webinar will present tried and true principles that will help you jump start your personal development.
How Project Management Skills Impact Your Career Part 2
Most professionals regard project management as a technical skill – something you use to keep a schedule on track or a budget under control. In my experience, it is something far bigger than that. It is one of the few skill sets that directly reshapes your career horizon – how far, how fast, and how…
Read MoreHOW PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS IMPACT YOUR CAREER
There is a quiet ceiling that stops many talented professionals from advancing – and it is not intelligence, work ethic, or technical ability. It is project management. Over three decades of executing complex EPC/EPIC projects for major operators, I have watched brilliant engineers and other professionals plateau at the same career stage – not because…
Read MoreCommunication and the Failure of the First Skyscraper Project
Long before steel beams and concrete pilings, humanity attempted its first recorded megaproject: a tower designed to reach the heavens. Genesis 11 tells us the builders had everything a modern project director would envy – unlimited manpower, a unified workforce, abundant materials, and total organizational alignment. “The whole earth had one language,” the text says,…
Read MoreWhat My Sojourn in Shell Taught Me About Project Management
In many organizations, project management is seen as something reserved for major capital initiatives, large transformation programs, or high-profile client engagements. But that view misses an important reality: a great deal of operational work is, in fact, project work in disguise. During my time in the pipeline asset team at Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC)…
Read MoreOne Misread Requirement, Millions Lost: The Hidden Cost of Contract Illiteracy
In offshore oil and gas projects, technical excellence alone is never enough. A contractor can have capable welders, experienced supervisors, and a good fabrication yard, and still walk straight into a financial disaster if the project team does not properly understand the contract. That is exactly what happened on one of our offshore wellhead piping…
Read MoreA $10.8 Million Mistake: What the Montreal Overpass Fiasco Teaches About Project Management
In Montreal, Canada, a perfectly functional overpass was demolished just one year after it opened to the public. The Highway 15 overpass, built at a cost of USD $10.8 million, was torn down because it didn’t align with the redesigned access routes to the nearby Champlain Bridge – a bridge that was, at the time…
Read MoreWhen a “Simple” Project Becomes a Career-Defining Failure
In project management, complexity is often misunderstood. Many teams assume that only large, technically advanced, or multi-billion-dollar initiatives demand rigorous planning. Smaller projects are frequently treated as straightforward exercises that can be managed with intuition, experience, and a few informal conversations. That assumption is dangerous. I learned this lesson in a powerful way on one…
Read MoreThe danger of being a One-method Project Manager
In this third and final part of our series on the top three challenges most likely to derail a project manager’s career we discuss the danger of being a one-method Project Manager. Project management today is almost unrecognizable compared to a decade ago. Agile and hybrid approaches are now the norm. Cross-functional teams move in…
Read MoreBeyond the Schedule: How Fearless Stakeholder Management Transforms Your PM Career
Ask a group of new project managers what their job is, and you’ll hear things like: organize tasks, run meetings, track progress, manage the schedule. All of that is true. But if that’s all you do, and stakeholder management is not part of it, you will quickly hit a ceiling. The difference between a project…
Read MoreFailed Projects Don’t Kill Careers – These Mistakes Do
If you stay in project management long enough, one thing is guaranteed: some of your projects will fail. Timelines slip. Budgets blow up. Stakeholders get frustrated. And as the project manager, you’re often standing at the center of it all. For aspiring and early-career project managers, this can be terrifying. You may worry that a…
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