By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd May 2021 “If you don’t try it, you’ll never know” is a message that Melanie Boyle, VP of Project Management and Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM), learnt early in life from the elder sister of a schoolfriend. Chance remarks like these can have a powerful impact on our …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th June 2020 I enjoyed my first experience of “Coaching in the Workplace, 2020” this week: a joint conference by the Association for Coaching and the Institute of Coaching, delivered this year through a digital platform. I learned about more than can be covered in just one blog, but was particularly drawn …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th January 2020 Working in geographically dispersed teams is a challenge for line and project managers The issue of how to best to manage geographically dispersed, remote or virtual teams was a hot topic at our recent Introduction to Management course. It seems that all the challenges of how to properly support, …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th October 2019 The Autumn issue of Project, the APM’s (Association for Project Management) quarterly publication, carries a couple of articles on the very important theme of well-being. Working on life science projects can be a high stress activity The APM commissioned some research by the University of Manchester, led by Dr …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th August 2019 The Summer issue of APM’s (Association for Project Management) Project magazine has a couple of excellent articles on rebuilding relationships. Susanne Madsen (p. 63) addresses how to strengthen your relationship with internal stakeholders who have become cynical and negative over the years. Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton (pp. 65-67) …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th June 2019 I have been spending a pleasant few hours browsing through the APM’s summer issue (no.299) of their quarterly publication Project and have found it a rich mine of information for the subjects that RiverRhee covers in its courses for project and line managers. Here then are some extracts from …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th April 2019 Project is the APM’s (Association for Project Managment) regular publication for its members. This spring’s issue carries a fascinating article by Ben Hargreaves, editor of Project, featuring Emma Dutton MBE. The article describes how she has founded a consultancy, the Applied Influence Group, to apply what she has learnt …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th November 2018 As many of the organisations that I work with are really struggling with this issue, Rose Hollister’s and Michael Watkins’ Harvard Business Review article on “Too many projects” (Sept-Oct 2018, pp 65-71) was very appropriate. Why care about too many projects? The authors assessment of the potential of too …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th July 2018 If we don’t know what is expected of us, it can be hard to deliver it! No matter how informal the management practices may be in your organisation, there will come a point when someone will query what it is that you are there to do and whether you …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th September 2017 The nature of “multi-teaming” in project management Many of the organisations that I work with manage projects as the essence of their way of working. The complexity of this approach is compounded in two ways: Operating a matrix model of management – where individuals have a line manager who …
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