Learning to position ideas from the perspective and decision-making style of the person you’re communicating with can make influencing easier and more effective.
Why It’s Critical to Have Sound Financial Acumen
While you might not ever be fluent in finance-speak, you can develop the acumen to carry on the conversation in the language of business. Finance folks alone shouldn’t dominate the conversation – better decisions and greater alignment occurs when all departments are balanced throughout an organization.
Engage. Coach. Develop.
Regularly fulfilling these three manager accountabilities – engage, coach, and develop – shows to the employee that the manager is invested in helping the employee prosper.
Don’t Change for the Sake of Change
Identification of the root cause issue is a critical step to ensuring successful organizational change and performance improvement.
You Won’t Survive as a Commodity. Differentiate on Value!
Differentiation is what you provide your customers, either a product or a service, that they cannot get elsewhere or do for themselves.
Agile Estimation – Feature and Story Sizing Scales
It is important for scrum masters, product owners, and teams not to outsmart themselves when developing their relative sizing scales. Effective Agile teams must develop a simple, repeatable scale for feature-level sizing and story point estimating.
Developing ‘Soft’ Skills as a Leadership Strength
Soft skills are critical to effective leadership and success as project managers.
How Business Rules Complement Business Process Modeling
Each operational process in your organization has rules as well. There are policies, guidelines, and restrictions that govern behavior in every operational process.
Becoming the Hero’s Coach
Unfortunately, the well-honed skills that define a great individual contributor don’t always translate to the skills needed to lead people. Even when good people skills are developed success can be elusive unless newly minted managers shift their mindset from being the “hero” as an individual contributor to the “hero’s coach” in managing others.
How Flexible is Your Business Strategy?
The game of business comes down to make-or-break decisions, which should be reviewed as a regular management team agenda item – not as a once yearly event.