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I recently had a lunch meeting with a communications consultant friend of mine. He was mulling over whether to spend a week and more than a thousand dollars to attend a conference for like-minded professionals. He said “You know I was just about to go when I saw there was yet one more seminar entitled ‘How do communicators get access to the C-suite?’ ” He rolled his eyes and said that during his several decade career he had seen dozens of ...

In recent postings we examined the formula P+M=O where the P is people, M is motivation and the O is opportunity. In the process we looked at the need for project managers and organizations to have a vision of their futures… answering the “What do I/We want to be when we grow up?” question. We then looked at organizational and personal vision as the answer. People + Motivation = Opportunity. Here I want to speak to ...

In my most recent blog, I used the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” catch phrase to express my belief that project managers must have a longer term plan and defined goals for their personal and professional growth. Going through and codifying this thought process is part of formulating your own personal vision. Organizations too have a vision and it is important to know ...

Welcome back! So let’s start with the first step. It’s what I call “what do you want to be when you grow up” it’s part of the formula outlined in the first post. Here we focus on the P…people in the People + Motivation = Opportunity formula. I believe if we know what we want we have a really good chance of getting it. However in my opinion we as project managers often don’t really know what we want. We may feel ...

PMO = what does it mean or should I say what does it stand for? I have been told by others, both inside and outside the profession and even that ultimate source Wikipedia that it stands for: Program Management Office Project Management Office Portfolio Management Office. in the PMBOK on Page 11 of the fourth edition it says the PMO is a Project Management Office. As Project Managers we tend to get very tactical very quickly. We dive in and ...

Welcome to our new site....and our new name. Strategeant Strategeant is all about making sense out of the unknown. A play on the words, Strategy, Stratagem, Strategist, Strategeant equips and empowers experienced project managers to engage strategy to accomplish a specific goal and then create a plan of action to follow thru. As is the essence of the definition of Strategy ... "It's A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal" As all things grow, With the help ...