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Conducting a Pre-MortemWhat is a Pre-Mortem? Courtesy Matt Byrom In conventional project management, when you undertake a risk assessment, people are asked to say what might go … Read more |
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The £500 betThis particular exercise is based on the results of a survey undertaken by a consulting organisation of failed and delayed projects. In their interviews of the … Read more |
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Photocapture of meeting outputsVirtual meetings have a big advantage over physical meetings in the area of documenting the outcomes. It is easy in a virtual meeting to simply … Read more |
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Personal Action PlansPersonal Action Plans are primarily a means of developing ownership for individual or collective behavioural change. They are analogous to normal meeting actions but differ … Read more |
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Myers-Briggs model / PsychometricsThe Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well established psychometric tool for assessing peoples preferences in decision making activities. It was developed by a mother … Read more |
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Handling Stress and ConflictIf your meetings are dealing with important issues, then it would be unusual if some of those issues do not on occasion create some degree of stress … Read more |
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Thinking processes and templatesDecision making, whether individual or collective, appears to be something that we don’t ‘think about’ very often, and yet there is a pattern to it … Read more |
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Kipling ListThe Kipling List is taken from a very short poem by Rudyard Kipling: “I had six serving men, they taught me all I knew, there … Read more |
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Impact/Ease GridThe Impact/Ease grid is a four-box model (a 2×2 positioning chart) for plotting solutions (or ideas or strategies) to reflect the impact of taking them … Read more |
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Force-Field AnalysisThe Force-Field Diagram is premised on the assumption that people and events behave (or fail to behave) as they do because of the balance of … Read more |
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Planning ChartThe Planning Chart is simply a grid, with either months, or numbers along the top, to represent periods of time into the future, and rows … Read more |
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Shortcutting the consensus processConsensus Reaching is a really useful mechanism both for building shared commitment, and for ensuring a complete understanding of all of the available facts and … Read more |
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Consensus ReachingConsensus is where every individual member of a group fully accepts the group’s conclusion for the collective benefit of the group, and is fully committed … Read more |
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RACI ChartRACI is an acronym for: Responsible; Accountable; Consulted; and Informed – four different levels of involvement that an individual might have with a particular area … Read more |