Starting your week strong on Monday creates a momentum for the rest of the week. If your first day is strong, you'll be ready to have a strong week. If your first day is weak, you'll dread all that will follow. Even though starting afresh on a different day of the week is also an option, I choose to maximize DAY ONE instead. As a CEO of my ... Read Full Article »
Why Your Business Needs Checklists
My team, our clients and even many who know me personally know about my obsession with checklists. My personal rule is... If you do anything more than once, make a checklist for it. Why? There are many reasons. Let me share just a couple of them to help you join the club and create business checklists. 1. Checklists save you time Instead of ... Read Full Article »
The #1 Reason Why Projects Fail
There are countless reasons why projects fail. From team issues, through lack of project management skills, to the low stakeholder engagement, you can find couple hundred reasons behind project failure or delays. If your organization ever led a project or initiative that was delayed, over budget, or under promise, you want to continue reading ... Read Full Article »
Communication Strategy & Meeting Improvement Injects Consistency & Efficiency in Project Management
Summary This global corporation located in Toronto, Canada runs hundreds of strategic projects, including some new key initiatives locally and globally. Powerful Life Consulting was commissioned to support one of their local teams in improving their project management efficiency and ROI. A thorough assessment revealed two key ... Read Full Article »
Top 7 Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail
Small businesses are dear to my heart. Mainly because I have a first-hand experience building and growing my own business. Just like all other small businesses out there, I walked through my own set of struggles, mistakes, failures and wins. It breaks my heart to see how many small businesses continue failing. After years of working with small ... Read Full Article »
Top 10 Questions To Ask Yourself To Stay On Track
You've set your goals for the year, broke them down by month and you have your weekly and daily to do lists. But as you start taking action, it's so easy to fall into a trap of busyness. Suddenly there are requests coming in from other people, there are things happening around you requesting your attention and there are unplanned emergencies you ... Read Full Article »
Top 3 Roadblocks To Your Best Performance
It's one thing when you're winging it not putting in the effort. Then it's ok to not see the results. But when you work hard, put in long hours and say 'no' to things you really like... and you still don't see the results, it can get pretty frustrating. I don't know about you, but this used to be my reality not so long ago. Long hours, loads ... Read Full Article »