We’ve all heard the expression – “one bad apple can ruin the bunch”, and while that’s easy to imagine and see with team members that just don’t integrate well with the others, the problem becomes ten-fold worse (or more) when that “bad apple” happens to be the leader of the team.
I’ve come to realize that while I’m a huge fan of MBWA (management by walking around) – it really only works when you’ve already established a culture of speaking truth to power.
As part of the ongoing development in my own project methodology (small-PM), one issue kept coming up – which was how to document and disseminate information on the individual performance of team members associated with our projects. Good or bad, I borrowed a few lessons from the old Performance Evaluation Reviews (PER) from my time in the military,… Read More »
This is a continuation of the discussions from our Blog Talk radio show – Soapbox #12 where we asked: What are the post-PMP®/ongoing professional development requirements of a Project Manager (PM)? The original podcast can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mentisor/2010/11/29/soapbox-12. Now, for the record, we were referring to ongoing professional development activities within an organization or pursued… Read More »