I recently graduated from Advance Coaching Consulting‘s and Magenta Coaching Solutions’ 7-day NLP Practitioner course in Cambridge. It was a wonderful opportunity to explore some new resources for my work as a trainer, coach and consultant whilst also achieving some invaluable personal developments. We discovered that the opportunities for applying NLP for enhancing individual and team …
Empathy can make a difference in every situation that we find ourselves in as leaders or managers I recently read Geoff Crane‘s chapter 55 ‘Empathy in Project Management’ in the ‘Gower Handbook of People in Project Management‘. It’s a very large book, with a wealth of fascinating information, so I’m dipping into it a chapter …
Notes from an APM Midlands Branch seminar by Elisabeth Goodman About 40 people attended this evening seminar in Coventry on 30th January 2014. The intent was to share a case study based approach of some of my experiences of leading and facilitating operational organisational change projects, and of using Lean and Six Sigma to support …
Facilitating operational excellence in and for business change projects Read More »
End of year holidays – a time to rest and renew our energy for new beginnings The end of year holidays and the beginning of the New Year are a good opportunity to rest and renew our energy for whatever our chosen direction in life! They’ve worked their usual magic with me and my enthusiasm …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Change Management, Lean and Six Sigma, and Knowledge Management continue to be the most popular topics for my readers, with a little Project Management thrown in. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog …
Elisabeth Goodman’s 2013 blogging year in review Read More »
APM East of England event, MedImmune, Cambridge, 12th November 2013 Issues facing ‘far flung’ teams Melanie Boyle, our host at MedImmune, welcomed us to the meeting and to a topic, which was very relevant to the geographically dispersed teams that she works with. ‘Far flung’ teams have a magnified version of the challenges faced by …
Working in far flung teams – notes from an APM East of England #APMEoE event Read More »
by Elisabeth Goodman I’m delighted to say that the first in my new series of “The Effective Team’s ” workbooks is now available. The Effective Team’s Change Management Workbook Elisabeth Goodman (author), Nathaniel Spain (illustrator), November 2013 – ISBN 978-0-9926323-5-9 This first book in the series focuses on Change Management. This is the description on the …
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By Véronique Mermaz Editor’s note: I met Véronique through Twitter and LinkedIn and have since had several face-to-face conversations with her. As she says in her footnote, she is a native French speaker living in East Anglia, specialising in French marketing support. I was struck when I met her by the richness of her experience …
Creative project management: soft skills required! Read More »
By Elisabeth Goodman It’s been an honour, whilst also slightly intimidating, to have a chapter included in this latest project management publication edited by Dennis Lock and Lindsay Scott: the Gower Handbook of People in Project Management1. Project teams may want to get to “high performance” more rapidly than operational teams As I say in the …
By Elisabeth Goodman HAVING FUN WITH PINTEREST Summer is a wonderful time to reflect and play with new ideas. I’ve been having a lovely time exploring Pinterest for new insights to inspire the teams I work with in workshops. Pinterest has only been going since 2010 and although it already has more than 70 million …
