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Do you use Charts, Graphs, Slideshows , Progressive Schematics, PowerPoint Presentations, Video Animations, Virtual Tours , inspiring pictures of goal attainment and other visual aids in order to share your vision with your project or management teams? How do you denote phases, progress steps, sub goal attainment? Do you do it metaphorically... with illustrations of pyramids, thermometers, passing of a torch, jigsaw puzzles in various stages of completion? Pictures make deeper, richer, more impressive and lasting impressions than words do. They engage more of the senses at a more primitive, receptive level than articulating plans in speech or by elaborate plan documentation. Visualization motivates action more powerfully and more precisely than words do. Have you ever noticed that when people don't understand what you are speaking about, they tend to scratch their heads (or nod them) and say, "I just can't see it?" People are naturally intimidated by thick reams...

Think about this: Planning and Management require more pictures and fewer words. Why? It has to do with the way Human beings process information. And when you are trying to communicate or demonstrate an idea or observation, a picture arouses more senses than spoken or written language. If efficiency is key - video presentations are all the more crucial. ---------------- Dear Readers: I will be returning from a brief assignment out of town on June 21st, and will begin posting regularly then. Thank you for reading me and for taking some time to view The Twitterlinks Hubspot Blog in order to find some of our information-packed Twitter feeds which suit your interests to follow. Douglas E. Castle p.s.  Please feel free to visit my Linked In profile at Linked In - Douglas E. Castle Related articles Bulletize Your Presentations - Think Like A Mad Marketing Tactics Pro (sendingsignals.blogspot.com) The Special Ops ReTweet Button - Interact and Dominate (b...

Most managers tend to consider themselves leaders , and the field of Project Management is no exception. The principal difference between leaders and managers is that leaders tend to innovate and to brave new terrain -- they think outside the graph, chart or box. They are generally fighters and uniters, each in turn Managers, on the other hand, generally enforce the new rules pioneered by the iconoclastic and creative leaders who came before them. They tend to be more concerned with processes and conforming to rules than being involved with people and creating rules. The two (leading and managing ) are not mutually exclusive -- they are a rare but synergistic combination in any single person . A Project or Program Leader identifies a problem and innovates or conceptualizes a means to solve it. He or she is generally good at selecting a team and optimizing its potency through superior organizational skills, character assessment and instincts. The Project or Program Manager is more in...

These News Alerts relating to Project Management just happened to come to my attention this morning, and I wanted to share them with our readers. - Douglas E. Castle ---------------- BOT International Honors Ricardo Ferrero of Baker Hughes with PMO Manager ... Virtual-Strategy Magazine "The PMO Manager Leadership Award recognizes individuals that have not just excelled at implementing project management methodology and tools, but that have also excelled in the demonstration of business acumen and enterprise leadership in the ... See all stories on this topic » PMI founder charts winning course Ultimate Pasadena by Paul R. Kopenkoskey | May 28, 2012 9:12 am AJ Collier first became a member of the non-profit Project Management Institute when he joined the Los Angeles chapter in 1972. AJ Collier estimates he's cruised to Cozumel, Mexico , at least 20 times. See all stories on this topic » IFRS RPP Project Manager Here Is The City A Project Manager role in the Change the ...

A budget is a matrix of objectives in terms of cost, tasks, certain quality parameters and time frames. It is not a best-case , worst-case or most probably case scenario, a forecast to wow investors or a means at winning a contract. A budget is a rule book. Any deviation from budget (i.e., a negative variance) is something that emerges from any of the following sources of error. And these errors lead to missed deadlines, cost overruns , and quality control deficiencies if: 1 ) A budget is created as selling tool or as a means of winning financing or a contract; 2 ) A budget does not provide sufficient margin for contingencies and other critical path issues, interruptions and deviations from trajectory; 3 ) A budget is put together with the thought in mind that once the project is sufficiently underway, the client, investor or manager will be sufficiently emotionally invested that he or she will not regard the project as a failure, and that additional resources (such as time and fund...