Use this, to deepen your understanding of the developmental stages that groups go through. Susan Wheelan built on Tuckman’s model and suggested that groups achieve maturity simply through the process ...

Use to identify the external factors which can disrupt/destroy your project. George Homans argues that the interaction between the group and the environment in which it operates shapes both the ...

Before we get into talking about team building methods I want to make one thing clear. Team building and managing is difficult and even the best managers can get it wrong sometimes.. In the 1966 World ...

Use this to understand the role, responsibilities and relationships that you have with your team. Rensis Likert identified four styles to describe the role, responsibilities and relationships that ...

Use as a checklist, every time you form a new team, to confirm that you have the right mix of people for the job. For any team to be successful, Meredith Belbin argues that the following roles must be ...

In organizations with short product life cycles, it is interesting to note that frequently participation in strategic planning and implementation includes participants from all levels within the ...

I have to say that this may be the simplest and yet one of the most powerful negotiation framework out there. I have done some reading on the subject in the last few weeks and I have ended up to the ...

Too often personal relations become entangled with the substantive issues under consideration. Instead of attacking the problem(s), people attack each other. Once people feel attacked or threatened ...

Managing customer relationships begins during the preliminary project approval phase of negotiations. It is important to avoid the temptation to oversell the virtues of a project to win approval ...

I love reading project management statistics. They are little snipes of information that can be used to start a conversation with your peers and easily engage. Here is a quick list of project ...

Humanity has a great track record when it comes to serious project management. From the Great Pyramids to the moon landing, our greatest endeavors required people working together on common goals. And ...