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Send us Fan Mail Failure, no one wants this but it happens.  Mistakes gets made and things don’t go as planned.  It’s part of being human. This week is about why it’s so important to get slightly more exceptional businesses and projects to embrace this. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the proj...

Send us Fan Mail This week a very simple thing to make your projects and businesses better - smile! Yes simple but not something that always gets done! So make yourself welcoming and gets better results.  Listen to the podcasts to find out a bit more. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the projec...

Send us Fan Mail People make projects and businesses better.  If we can get the best out of people we can get the best out of a project and for a business.  Understanding and working with people needs empathy and understanding empathy is not always as straightforward as it may seem. This week empathy, what is it? AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YO...

Send us Fan Mail Negativity is inevitable, there are always at least 2 sides to a story, ways of doing things, unknowns, risk and fear especially in the project process.  Let’s work with it and make our projects and businesses better for it. This week the podcast focuses on 2 areas where negativity can be turned into positives. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEME...

Send us Fan Mail We all try right?  But sometimes it feels like we are stuck.  Especially in projects when you seem to be all going round in circles. This episodes focuses on getting out of that cycle and moving forward again.   AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the project and the business.  Fo...

Send us Fan Mail This week complexity.  It’s a nightmare that will haunt you without you knowing.  Find out what it it is, where it manifests itself and how using some of the 9 rules to exceptional management of projects, you can mitigate it to make your projects and business more exceptional  AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PRO...

Send us Fan Mail This week a summary of the last 9 weeks of the 9 rules to exceptional management of projects for the projects and the business.  An overview of why these 9 rules and why they work. This is a short informal podcast to give you was to make your management of projects exceptional for both the business and the project. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANA...

Send us Fan Mail The last of the 9 rules to exceptional management of projects for your business and the project is don’t do it if you don’t need to! Sounds obvious maybe but how often do you ask yourself is this making things better? This episode covers some example as, reasons and solution to maybe a controversial rule but certainly one that will make your business and projects better when under...

Send us Fan Mail This week rule 8 of how to get exceptional results for your project and business. - be honest, competent and consistent. Trust is so important with dealing with people and projects are a people oriented environment.  Trust lets projects flow, allows collaboration, gives momentum all important to be efficient and get the best from a projects quality and financially.  This episode e...

Send us Fan Mail This week rule 7 of the rules to exceptional management of projects for the business and the project.  Respect responsibility! To make the work as efficient as it can, keep communication clear and avoid wasting time and money you need to first give responsibility but then importantly respect it. A podcast of tips, techniques, lessons learned on how to improve your management of pr...

Send us Fan Mail This week a three sided rule. Trust, enable and get right.  These three things if done well together will get you great projects and business results. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the project and the business.  For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know,...

Send us Fan Mail Rule 5 - understand .  For better manager of projects for the project and the business. This episode explains why making sure you focus on understanding benefits your project and business in two very important ways in the world of projects.  Bring success, value and elevating your projects. Sunny chases squirrels, I give you an overview of the rule. It’s a short informal podcast o...

Send us Fan Mail This week rule 4 of the 9 rules to project success for your project and your business Communicate effectively  The management of projects is essentially about the management of information.  But it is the communication of that information to the right places, at the right time, in the right way for the project and to the business that makes a project a success.  It’s not easy and...

Send us Fan Mail This week rule 3 of the 9 rules to project success for your project and your business Look forward Projects move quick, or they should!  If you have a backwards looking mentality then they get bogged down.  Yes things don’t go to plan, unexpected things happen.  As soon as you dwell you loose value.  The first act has to be to look forward for a positive outcome and maximum value....

Send us Fan Mail This week rule 2 of the 9 rules to project success for your project and your business Every project is different If you don’t recognise that due to the nature of a project even the ones that seem the same aren’t then you won’t get the true value from the project for the business.  Either from missed opportunities or wasted resource. This is an informal podcast about the management...

Send us Fan Mail There are many ways out there to manage projects well.  They all work, in the right circumstance.  But are not aimed at making them work for the business or getting the best results in any circumstance. CS projects comes at projects from a slightly different way.  One that recognises that a method is a difficult restrctive thing to implement for most companies and that each projec...

Send us Fan Mail This week is again focusing on a massive subject, how to make your management of projects better!!   Obviously I can't give you the definitive answer to your business, but the best way to approach it and how to achieve it. So have a listen and begin your journey, elevate your management of projects through focused incremental improvements.  In the areas you need.  Get better...

Send us Fan Mail This week we tackle the simple subject of how to manage a project in around 10 mins.  Of course its not a complete guide but its focuses on the complexities of the tricky middle process of turning an idea into something real.  Its an over view of the full project lifecycle management and  making sure every stage of a project is understood and coherent from start to finish, with th...

Send us Fan Mail Sitting in the corner takes a break - it’s time to evolve!  For season 2 AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the project and the business.  For SME's and accidental project managers. Once you know, you know! www.cowshedprojects.com

Send us Fan Mail The last in a mini series on communication.  This week continuity and how to be aware of its value in communication. It’s a short, informal, freestyle podcast on the management of projects and ways you could make them better for your business and projects. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BET...

Send us Fan Mail Bad news.  It happens on projects and as a project manager and business you have to deal with it.  Sometimes things just aren’t fair but how should you deal with it. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEMENT OF PROJECTS AND PROFITS BETTER.    For the project and the business.  For SME's and accidental project managers....

Send us Fan Mail Second in a series on communication this is on the very simple concept of communicating to understand so you have more effective projects both for the business and the better projects. Is short, ideas lead, freestyle and there to potentially help add value to your business and projects. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  - COWSHED PROJECTS  VALUE FOCUSED PROJECT MANAGEMENT - TO MAKE YOUR MANAGEM...

Send us Fan Mail First in a series of podcasts on communication.  One of the key elements to making a project better both for the business and the project.   Reporting, it’s not just another tick box and if it is don’t bother! But if it isn't there are many benefits.  Here’s how to do it better. It’s a short 10 min ish relaxed, freestyle podcast of how you can make your management of projects...

Send us Fan Mail The second part in how to manage design.  The hardest thing you’ll have to manage!   This episode - beware the unresolved.   A key thing to be aware of and stop those risks turning into issues. It’s a short, freestyle, relaxed podcasts on ideas, thoughts and ways you could potentially improve your management of projects for both the business and the project. AN EVEN BETTER WAY  -...

Send us Fan Mail Design is the process of turning ideas into something that is real, and it’s a difficult process.  It’s equally as hard to manage so you get the best in terms of quality, cost and in good time. To get true value as a client or contractor it has to be managed with understanding and care but not let drift. This is a high level view of how I have done it relatively successfully in th...