Abstract A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of necessary and high priority actions—imperatives. An essential focus on creating excellence in people, processes, and the working environment reaps tremendous benefits and enables executives and their organizations to achieve desired objectives. Leadership skills and environmental factors provide…
Category: project management
Create Environment for Successful Projects
Organizations that get better results from its projects make consistent and continuing efforts to nourish the environment for selecting and executing projects. The process can start with a survey to assess the project environment and continue by taking action on findings. The point is to apply a systematic approach that covers all areas, reinforces strengths,…
Developing Professional Skills
As a long-term project and program manager in high tech new product development working with system level teams (and now as an independent consultant), I found that focus on interactions with people is a top priority. Being viewed as bureaucratic, template focused, “pain in the butt,” rigorous to a fault is not productive. My actions…
Invest in Project Sponsorship
Many projects suffer delays and/or failures because: Engaged project sponsors are crucial for success “Accidental” project sponsors exist Many sponsors are unaware of roles and responsibilities. Now is the time to invest in a quick and easy mini course on “Achieving Excellence in Project Sponsorship,” brought to you by experienced practitioners Randall Englund and Alfonso…
Top Five Skills Needed by Project Managers
Most project managers identify influence, negotiation, political, and sales skills as lacking and most needing development. These skills are necessary to create integrated outcomes which is a resulting skill that project management seeks to achieve. If any of these skills are not present, moving in the wrong direction, and/or stationary, outputs become very limited. Failed…
Pillars to Arches: A Metaphor for Improving Organizational Performance
This metaphor guides leaders on an effective approach to improving organizational performance, using historical advances in architecture from pillars to columns. Read the article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pillars-arches-metaphor-improving-organizational-englund/ Organizations advancing along a project management maturity model toward enterprise project management can be viewed as a pillars-to-arches evolution. Enterprise project management is an organization wide managerial philosophy, based on…
Career Enhancement Highlights
As projects are rampant in almost every organization, a key learning from many years of experience: Become a [more] Complete PROJECT manager who integrates skills from multiple disciplines. Read article that shares highlights from years of experiences about everything I wish I knew when starting my career.
Virtual Seminar on Becoming More Complete
When deciding how best to earn 28 PDUs in one week, learn more about yourself and your skill set, negotiate with your sponsor, and take constructive action in political environments, sign up for the PMI virtual seminar “Integrating People, Organizational, and Technical Skills: The Complete Project Manager.” Here are testimonials from previous participants: Managers participating…
Training Course for Project Sponsors
Develop excellence in PROJECT SPONSORSHIP. Now through the end of December, purchase discounted access for only $19 to virtual mini course covering all steps to achieve management commitment for project success. Brought to you by Randall Englund and Alfonso Bucero MSc,ACE,PMP, PMI-RMP,PfMP, IPMO-E, PMI Fellow.
Podcast about Executive Imperatives
Randy Englund narrates presentation on necessary high priority actions to improve organizational performance. Click to listen to audio version podcast of Executive Imperatives:
Necessary Ingredients To Improve Organizational Performance: Executive Imperatives
An update is available as a LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/executive-imperatives-necessary-ingredients-improve-updated-englund/. A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of executive imperatives—necessary and high priority actions. Personal experiences reveal that an essential focus on creating excellence in people, processes, and the working environment reaps tremendous benefits and enables executives…
L2M2 as Secret Recipe for Success
Here is an article to help ensure small efforts are expended in the right direction to optimize large results. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/small-effortlarge-impact-secret-recipe-randall-randy-englund/?published=t