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Use Competency Assessments to Close Project Management Skill Gaps

Using Competency Assessments to select your project team will improve project success by matching the right people to each project and identifying the project management skill gaps that need to be closed.

Increase Productivity Through Business Process Management

Business Process Management (BPM) consists of powerful tools to generate dramatic work process improvement. It helps organizations cope with the detrimental after-effects of staff cuts during the recession.

Accelerate the Innovation Engine in Your Organization but Watch for the Potholes

Building a culture of innovation is the first step in being innovative. If you get the environment right, a culture of innovation will easily fall into place.

5 Steps to Ensure Consistency in the Management of Projects

Getting consistent results with project delivery requires the consistent use of project management methods and tools by every project team in the organization. Establishing consistency requires proper planning and effort by senior management and/or PMOs.

Business Management: The Advantages of a Strategic Enterprise Office

Having a Strategic Enterprise Office (SEO) that services the entire organization, with a consistent message and methodologies is shown to be more successful than creating a number of Project Management Offices (PMOs) across the organization.

Business Management: How Clear Is Your Vision?

Vision, mission and values are supposed to be the beacon by which organizations set their strategic direction but how often do they align with everyday priority setting? Does your team share the same definitions for your organization’s vision? If you operate at a departmental level, does your departmental team share your department’s vision? If the answer is, no, then it’s not going to be easy to achieve the results you expect. Here are some helpful suggestions.

Three Things We Can Learn about Leadership from “The Queen”

There are times when, despite our best intentions, nothing can prepare us for what is about to occur. The recent movie, “The Queen,” portrays a wonderful example of how leadership styles can affect people’s reactions.

Effecting Successful Change Management Initiatives

In too many situations the carnage of change has resulted in a significant amount of waste and anguish in organizations. Useful change tends to be associated with a multi-step process that creates power and motivation that is sufficient to overwhelm all the sources of apathy.

The Power of Listening

Listening, really listening, is a truly demanding and complex activity, which offers the listener an opportunity for growth. When we truly listen to someone, when we hear not only the words, but also their importance to the speaker on an emotional level, we are transformed. By reflecting on another’s words, we come face-to-face with whom we are, and the assumptions and judgments we bring with us.

The Innovation Process - From Vision to Reality

Innovation is a collaborative process through which organizations abandon old paradigms and make significant advances. Innovative ideas come from several sources, including: unreasonable demands, goals and time pressures. An organization must cultivate innovation and link it to their business improvement strategies to realize benefit from innovation.

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Michael Stanleigh, CMC, CSP, is the CEO of Business Improvement Architects; a firm that helps organizations around the world to increase their operational performance through Innovation. This includes working with their leadership teams to define their strategic direction and increasing their leadership performance, working with leaders to create the strategy, culture and process for innovation and coaching them to ensure their project and quality processes are managed effectively. He has been instrumental in helping his clients increase productivity and profits with his clear processes and quality approach.

Michael is also an accomplished professional speaker and dynamic presenter. He is among a handful of speakers worldwide who hold the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. He delivers keynote presentations for conferences and events globally about his research and experience in his organization’s core practice areas. Michael is a leading expert and keynote presenter on Innovation, Strategy and Leadership Performance, and Project and Quality Management. He shares his real life business expertise and experience with stories that are tailored for each audience and delivers presentations with spark, energy and creativity.

Michael has worked in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, England, France, Croatia and the Republic of Czech. His speaker web site is located at www.michaelstanleigh.com

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