APM prospective Knowledge SIG Conference – 5th July 2012 Based on the @ecgoodman twitter stream tagged with #KSIGDDAY @APMProjectMgmt #KM Meeting kicking off – looking forward to it! The meeting started with some speed networking in which I met lots of great people from all sectors of work, the UK, sizes of organisation, and levels …
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Holidays are an excellent time to catch-up with my reading, so I have just had a very stimulating week reading Rob Yeung’s “E is for Exceptional”. I’ve previously enjoyed Yeung’s books on networking, and emotional intelligence, and picked this one up at random, not really knowing what to expect. It’s a gem! Like his other …
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By Elisabeth Goodman My blog on employee engagement (Employee engagement – some interesting data and perspectives for Lean and Six Sigma practitioners) is, of all the blogs that I have written since 2009), the one that has attracted the most attention. I wrote it in response to an article I read in the business section …
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Employee involvement is of course fundamental to the success of any business process improvement initiative: without the close involvement of those who are involved in an organisation’s process, it would be futile to try to identify opportunities for improvement, let alone to try to implement them. So it was with some interest that I read …
Readers of my blogs will know that I am an avid reader. I’ve just made my way through ‘Do more great work’ by Michael Bungay Stanier. It’s a misleadingly small book! It looks small, and from the outside could be mistaken as the kind of book that you can wiz through. But it’s taken me …
Building strong personal career paths – do you have a case study to share? Read More »
Knowledge management and creativity/ innovation enhance project management. I am a firm believer in the value of knowledge management to enhance project management. I also believe that the use of formal structures, such as those advocated in Lean and Six Sigma (or process improvement), and project management, give people more rather than less scope for …
‘Topgrading’ by Bradford D Smart1, is a wonderful testament to the existence of talented individuals who can also ‘work smarter’, ‘deliver higher quality work’, ‘demonstrate greater team work’, and ‘find ways to get the job done in less time and with less cost’. Smart argues that it’s the proportion of ‘A’ players in an organisation …
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As Stephen R. Covey, Bob Whitman and Breck England point out, in their one-hundred-and-ten page “Predictable results in unpredictable times”1: “in bad times, the distractions are more severe than ever… As people get laid off, the survivors have more to do. The distractions pile up to the sky as the economy grows rougher…” In our …
‘Simply putting clever people together does not make a team’, and, ‘There are many examples of extremely bright and talented groups that signally underperform’. So say Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in ‘Clever. Leading your smartest, most creative people.’ (1) This book, which Elisabeth Goodman, principal consultant at RiverRhee Consulting, picked up as a result …
At 4am on a fresh autumn morning, a coach load of members of the European Pharmaceutical Student Association (EPSA) began their early morning journey from Genoa, Italy, to Nice (France) to attend a workshop on ‘Personal Career Development – new to the job or ready for a change?’ This was one of the sessions organised …
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