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Toxic People and What to do About Them

June 16, 2023
Ela Stilwell
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Toxic People and What to do About Them Toxicity is often a slow build. The presence of a toxic team member often results in the individual becoming the topic of more and more conversations, essentially robbing the energy from the project. Rod and Dale discuss four steps for tackling toxic people: recognition of the toxic...

What’s Your Vision?

May 29, 2023
Ela Stilwell
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What's Your Vision? Having a vision is one thing, but communicating vision is another. When we communicate the project vision clearly and frequently, that big picture allows people to support, engage and be truly involved in making the vision a reality. Our blog posts are a condensed version of our podcast! Listen to the episode...

The RACI Model

May 23, 2023
Ela Stilwell
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The RACI Model Clarity in roles and responsibilities is vital to the success of any project. When people are unclear on what they’re supposed to be doing, it creates confusion, frustration, and sometimes resentment. Rod and Dale break down the RACI chart, which helps map out who’s responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. Our blog posts...

Managing relationships

May 17, 2023
Ela Stilwell
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Managing Relationships Any time we have more than one person in a room, we’re engaging in some sort of relationship management. The formula for relationships is simple: T+V+D=R Trust + Value + Dialogue = Relationship Emotional safety needs to be considered, whether it’s a boss/employee, mentor/mentee or colleague/colleague relationship. In the podcast, Rod and Dale...

Wrapping Your Arms Around Tough Conversations

July 21, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Wrapping Your Arms Around Tough Conversations Whether it's in our professional or personal life, there are certain conversations we don't look forward to, where we need to get our message across in a way that helps people change their behaviours or how they think. Borrowing the language of Kerry Patterson, these are Crucial Conversations. In...

Knowing Your Thinking Preferences

July 20, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Knowing Your Thinking Preferences Einstein is quoted as saying that we can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. That’s because we have thinking preferences that often drive how we behave. More importantly, we have zones of thinking discomfort that impact our behaviour. Knowing how we think is vital in a project...

Making Meetings Work

July 20, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Making Meetings Work The topic of meetings is a reoccurring one in project management. We're going to look at meetings from a different perspective than you may be used to, so think back to a recent meeting you attended (or led) as we work through some one-word questions: Why? What? Who? and How? Bill Russell,...

Stay Still and Listen

May 30, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Stay Still and Listen It can be challenging to listen and truly hear what is being said. When listening, our minds wander, we get distracted, and we aren't listening anymore during that time. Neurologically speaking, our brains can really only do one thing at a time, but we're great at zoning in and out of...

Trust is Tricky

May 30, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Trust is Tricky No matter where you end up in project management, you'll deal with people. Whether you work with investors and funding applications or the CEO and the planning and accountability end of a project, there's a human element involved. We started our podcast, Messy but Essential: the people side of project Management - and this...