Personal Growth
Goal Setting Lessons from The Project Management Profession – Part 2 – Visibility
In the first part of this series I discussed the need to breakdown goals to daily tasks or mini milestones to ensure that we chip away at our big goals every day. That improves our chances of achieving our goals at the end of the year. Today I intend to examine another practice from the…
Read MoreGoal Setting Lessons From The Project Management Profession – Part 1
The season of goal setting, new year resolutions or whatever term we choose to designate the exercise, is here again. Some of those who take the exercise seriously may have already commenced the process of reviewing the goals they set, or the new year resolutions they made, at the beginning of 2017. The aim is…
Read MoreLessons Learned from Personal Failure
It is popularly said that experience is the best teacher. But it has been challenged by several thinkers. For instance, John Maxwell, acclaimed to be the number one leadership expert in the world, asserts: “experience is NOT the best teacher, but EVALUATED EXPERIENCE is” I will be sharing what I learnt from my personal failure…
Read MorePRODUCTIVITY NORMS AND HOW TO USE THEM
“We used standard norms to estimate productivity and activity durations, but the project is still behind schedule.” You probably have heard that before. Yes, you have used norms to develop estimates and plan the project. You have resourced the project as planned. Why is the project behind schedule?
Read MoreWill Your Business Be There Tomorrow?
In my blog post last week I challenged employees to consider the future of their jobs in the rapidly changing work place. Today, I fulfill my promise to address entrepreneurs. Studies published in the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) have shown that only 12%, just over 1 in 10, of Fortune 500 (an annual list of…
Read MoreWill Your Job Be There Tomorrow?
A major transformation, call it revolution if you will, has been taking place in the work place in the last 30 years. It has affected both the employer and the employee. Many employees have not only been rendered jobless but also unemployable due to obsolescence of skills. The prognosis for the next 15 – 25…
Read MoreWelcome to My WordPress Blog
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to my blog. I have been involved in leadership of faith-based, not-for-profit organizations for over 35 years, including training, developing and mentoring younger leaders. I have also been involved in both premarital and post-marital counselling. We have also been facilitating discussion groups for couples for about…
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