Expectations. And goals. What is the difference? In my experience too high or wrong expectations is the biggest challenge in all relationships……… Read More Keep your expectations high on achievement and low on people
Public speaking has always been a challenge for me. However, challenges are good. I have set myself a goal to practice-practice-practice and learn to get better. First thing I learned – most people fear public speaking. Even the ones who seem perfect at it! Eric Edmeades said it is #1 fear in the world (death… Read More Fear of public speaking
Once upon a time in Copenhagen, at Nordic Project Zone, Nigel Risner was a keynote speaker. He gave his famous “It’s a zoo around here” lecture. By that time I was familiar with several personality type classifications like DISC, Belbin Team Roles etc. Each of them very good. I still enjoyed Nigel’s classification for its… Read More Know your people
We live in the world where new software products are born on each moment (just to be clear – I do not have a real statistics on that). So, naturally we have a lot of tools available to help us to build team-spirit, to organize our work and to communicate with our customers (Jira, Google… Read More Hooked on Slack
We are used to plan all kinds of schedules, to plan Sprints and many other details in our project, but way too often we forget the most important thing – planning communication. Years ago when I was working as a project manager and learning for my PMP certificate exam, I remember that my “new thing”… Read More Communication planning
