While complex projects are becoming a more recognized part of the language of project management, it seems to me that, where once only a few projects were called complex, now virtually every project undertaken is described by someone as complex. I hear it in home building, where someone will describe... read more →
Apr
11
Mar
21
In the simplest of forms of human communications, two individuals with similar cultural and demographic views and values, who speak the same language and have similar levels of communication skills would talk face to face, discussing and agreeing courses of action and ensuring in the process that both parties fully... read more →
Mar
07
Everyone working in any form of project leadership role will receive dozens through to hundreds of emails daily. Some of these will be relatively anonymous distributions of project statistics, broadcast to large sections of the project team, but many will be direct person-to-person notes covering anything from simple status updates... read more →
Feb
26
I am really excited to say that the energy resources sector competitiveness plan developed and published by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) was been released on 22nd February. For the past few months I have had the opportunity to act as the lead author of the report, which looks at... read more →
Feb
21
With so much interest in the opportunities afforded by virtual teams and international execution, one big question is just why do company's and individuals undertake projects using multinational or international teams. There are a great number of drivers that influence the approach both positively and negatively. Some are quite obvious,... read more →
Feb
07
As a consultant who spends a lot of time working on virtual team challenges of engineering companies, the engineering project skills for the future is often on my mind. The last few decades have each brought one or two major changes to the way major engineering projects are delivered, the... read more →
Jan
24
Where are the future international project communicators coming from? Where are they developing right now? and, How can their development be supported and facilitated so that there are enough of them available for future projects? Firstly, as an optimist, let me say that I believe there are many people around... read more →
Jan
10
Probably the most common way international projects develop their communications plans is through the simple trial and error of starting a project with an international, virtual team component with no different communications planning than would occur in a single country, co located team methodology. All of this means that those... read more →
Jan
03
I seem to have had a few conversations with clients recently on the need for personal motivation as a driving force to succeed in international communications. By motivation I am referring to the type of psychological drivers the individual needs to have the personal desire to really want to learn about... read more →
Dec
30
I have been thinking for a while now about where we find the role models for our future leaders, you know who I mean, the figures we recommend aspiring leaders model themselves on, and sadly, I keep coming up short when I try to think of public figures. A Limited Choice... read more →