Posts Tagged ‘project management’
How to Prioritize Tasks: Preventing Fire Drills
Last week I shared a list of triaging questions to ask yourself when you’re wondering, “How do I prioritize all of these tasks??” Now let’s look at another stage of the prioritization process: prevention of fire drills. This calls for debriefing and learning from past experiences. When you find yourself in situations like…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan (part 2)
In last week’s post, I gave the background behind my project management lessons learned from an audio book project. I’ll pick up where I left off last time… What I didn’t count on were all of the small details that presented large hiccups. Authors can’t submit a chapter at a time to see if ACX…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
Project management lessons learned are not foreign to me; after all, this is what I teach to my clients in order to help them improve their time management and productivity. What is a challenge for me, though, is dealing with outside forces that you can’t control…forces that can screw up everything that you’re trying to…
Read MoreTime Management – What's the missing puzzle piece?
I recently met with a new client who lamented about deadlines not working for her. Before diving in to deconstruct what was happening with her, I offered her this overview: Part of the reason why deadlines don’t work for some folks is that they’re
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