Tag Archive: Small Business

Accentuate the positive, build on the negative!

When delivering services, it is important to focus on the positive contributions that are made to clients. Often too much time is spent on negatives that can create a poor impression with the client. Negatives need to be resolved, of course, but positive messages need to be part of the engagement.

Creative, not prohibitive

Project managers need to do more than just follow process in order to allow a project to succeed. To get the best out of their project team, they must allow for creativity. To encourage team participation. To create an open project team environment.

Show me the money

Tracking, managing and understanding the costs associated with your project delivery is vital to ensuring profitability. Without understanding the costs, your business will never really come to grips with effectively managing projects to budget.

Establishing a border

Defining roles and responsibilities in a project and in general operations is vital to ensure a smooth delivery of services or projects. Without definition, it becomes muddled and accountability is difficult to prove,

Rage against the machine!

Businesses are challenged by clients to continiously reduce the cost of delivery. The drive is focused on cost and services businesses allow clients to undervalue what they are recieving. Mainly because so many businesses are just “the same” and have not created a value proposition that enables them to maintain their pricing.

Digging a hole

Fear can inhibit project managers and project teams alike when challenged with a project management issue. This can allow project issues to fester and create bigger holes or problems later. Better to create a climate that allows for issues to be dealt with quickly.

The Right Stuff

Having the correct project resources is imperative to ensuring success in a project. Often businesses can be pushed to offer starting a project before all of the right people are in place, but this will only damage the end result. Surely its better to wait until all project resources are in place prior to starting.