Santa: The Ultimate Project Management Guru

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on December 24, 2009 in: Coaching

Recently, I wrote about your Christmas dinner as a project management exercise. But now that it’s just about Christmas, I’ve realized that the real project management guru of the season is Santa himself. What a project: Making toys for good little girls and boys and then delivering them in one night. Can you imagine the [...]

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Got a problem?

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on November 27, 2009 in: Coaching

Running a small business is all about problems!

You’ll be more successful when you identify a problem that your target market is facing… and you solve it.

While many of your customers will leave happy, some will return the product or express dissatisfaction with the service – that’s a problem.

You’ll also encounter problems each and every day [...]

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Weekend Reading: My fav’s from this week: 11/06/09

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on November 6, 2009 in: Weekend Reading

SEO and WordPress: How to optimize your WordPress blog
10 Things You Can Do in the Next 60 Days to Market Your Business and Close More Sales
The fun theory … it works! – Make sure you click the link and watch the video on this one. It really is amazing.
Finding Inspiration in Sleep
How to Get Started [...]

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From employee to entrepreneur: The 3 skills you need to make the switch

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on November 3, 2009 in: Coaching

The transition from working for someone else to working for yourself is not an easy transition. There are lots of people who dream of making that switch but, when it comes right down to it, they can’t. (Or, they do and then they switch back).
The reason is simple: Even though you might have good days [...]

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Time Off: Do Small Business Owners Get Any?

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on October 20, 2009 in: Articles

If you run a small business, you may find yourself quickly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work that is required. Not only must you juggle constant deadlines from a wide range of clients, but the housekeeping tasks can be immense. From bookkeeping and accounting to cost estimating and project management, the small business owner [...]

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Project management best practice: The report

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on September 10, 2009 in: Coaching

When you’re putting together a project there will come a time when you need to file a report. But how do you do it… and how do you do it well?
I’m reminded of a story once where I worked on a project (as an employee who participated, not as the project manager). The project manager [...]

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Can I have a show of hands?

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on July 30, 2009 in: Coaching

“Can I have a show of hands?” is a project killer.
There, I said it.
If you’ve said this, you can be forgiven for saying it because few people realize just how poisonous it is to a project. Part of the reason is that most of us have grown up in a democratic society (whether the US [...]

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