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Hello ,
It's Friday today, so this will be short...
Are you working on tricky projects? I'm in London running a workshop with people working on process change from many industry sectors and from across Europe and the Middle East. They're saying that they feel that they need to deliver more than ever, without much time to plan and reflect. This applies whether they are from industry or the public sector. Another thing they're saying is that their projects are getting trickier - they are more complex, involving more virtual working but with less support and it is harder than ever to get access to important stakeholders (who have time pressures too). Does that chime with you? It rings true with me, but perhaps I see more of this as my company specialises in giving people the tools and confidence they need to make these tricky projects work.
Carla's Success Story
Firstly, I'd like to congratulate my mentoring client Carla, whose boss is delighted with her progress since we worked together earlier this year. You can read more about Carla's story and her own tricky project here:
You can find her Armchair Involvement website (to share good practice in the NHS in reaching people in their armchairs) here.
For those working in time-pressurised environments, but who still need to deliver, this sort of just-in-time, tailored mentoring can be a great way to get support with tricky projects, in the shortest possible time. We have space for just one more mentee this year, and a few more from March 2011. Contact us to find out more by replying to this e-mail with the subject of 'Mentoring'.
Bringing Clarity, Creativity and Engagement to your work
Do you need to influence people who you don't have line management authority over? This is a key part of the role of business analysts and, at the BA2010 conference last month, eighty of them joined me to see how to do this by bringing clarity, creativity and engagement to your work.
You can listen in to the session online, see the outputs and read more here.
Questions for you:
What is it about your projects that makes them tricky? (I'd be interested in hearing what challenges you face, so I can tailor these briefings over the next year to suit what you're facing right now.)
How can you use creativity to be clear and to engage those you don't have authority over?
See Penny in Action:
Next month I'm in Manchester presenting at the Risk School of the British Computer Society (it's already fully booked). For other events, see here.
I'm back home for the weekend, before three conference calls on Monday morning before a flight to Zurich for the week. I hop you have a great Halloween weekend and all the best for your 'tricky' projects.
Regards,
Penny
PS Recent blog posts include:
Getting things done through others: a dilemma
Do project managers really need to have domain knowledge? Debate...
Bringing Creativity, Clarity and Engagement to Your Work
My notes from Business Analysis Conference 2010 in London
Dr Penny Pullan
Director, Making Projects Work Ltd
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