In a couple of days, my calendar is going to ping me with a reminder. It’s going to say “One month in – how’s it going, Heather?” This reminder is for me to review the new business strategies I intended to integrate into my business this year.
Each year, I list out a bunch of strategies I want to integrate into my business. Some are marketing strategies, some are productivity strategies, some are customer service strategies; that kind of thing. I always have a really bold and vibrant vision of the year ahead and it’s easy for me to actually create so many strategies that I simply can’t implement them all effectively.
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“Take my wife, please” is probably one of the most famous one liners there are. I’m not a big fan of one liners; it’s just not my brand of comedy. And when it comes to project management, I’m not a big fan of one liners, either.
In project management we bring together numerous smaller pieces so that, by the end, we have a completed project – whether that’s a book or a product or an invention or a new business. There are many different kinds of project management tools and techniques out there and the one that is used most often is the “one liner”. Click here to read more »
If you’ve clicked through the services I offer on this site, you’ll notice that a lot of it is related to the management and implementation of projects; of turning complex concepts into completed reality.
One of the most important (and most overlooked) steps in any complex project is the end-game play. You don’t have to be a sports aficionado to know what I’m talking about. The end-game is the last step in the project. If a business is developing a new product to bring to market, the initial end-game is often perceived to be: “selling the product successfully”. While that’s important, it shouldn’t be the end-game. That goal is positive and optimistic and should be present in your planning, but there are other considerations that a project manager should allow for: Click here to read more »
In the last blog, I talked about the first part of the conundrum of committedness: How the consultant needs to stay busy enough with commitments to earn and income but also have enough time to market in order to replenish the pipeline.
I said that the first part of the conundrum of committedness is: The more commitments you have now, the less time you have to generate new commitments. But the less time you spend on generating new commitments, the fewer you will soon have. Click here to read more »
