Structured approach versus improvisation

Some time ago, delivering a Project management training in France, I had a discussion with a participant on the words ‘in a structured manner’ being part of the definition of

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I have to be creative right now! …

Yesterday I did it to myself again, I had to be creative. So start thinking really hard, after all, google and you will find lots of creative-thinking lemmas? No way,

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How strokes do get you results

You know how the Americans believe strokes – compliments – to be most effective in raising motivation? Too American for your taste? Well, maybe you should reconsider. Strokes or compliments

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The cost of a book is in the reading, now to get the return

In his introduction to the paperback edition of Built to Last, Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (2002) writer Jim Collins states: ‘What is the true price of a book? Not

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Project management: doing things right or doing the right things?

Fact is a project has either a result or even an implemented result that already generates impact. But where do projects start? In our practice my colleagues and I rarely

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Appreciative Systems Auditing

General objective: – To develop participants’ auditing skills – To allow them to target systemic causes for non-compliance; – To induce an increased level of spontaneous compliance with internal control

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Organizing for performance

General objective: To be able to organize your own job effectively and efficiently, to learn from experience and consequently continuously pinpoint possibilities for improvement. Duration: 2 days, 09:00 – 17:00

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Association for professionals in care

At the end of the three-year period, almost 50% of the projects in the Association’s multi-annual plan were either not started or not finished on time. Prioritization, taking the available

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Water management agency

A renovation project of some infrastructure had gone quite wrong. Many stakeholders were involved, all were blaming the builders, it looked like nobody from the agency or their other contractors

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Developer and operator infrastructural projects

The project managers in the international organization had trouble meeting deadlines and keeping within budget on their long term, capital-intensive projects. Project coordination took a lot of effort, responsibilities in

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