Latest Blog Posts for Martin Webster, Esq.

• Change Makes Change
  on Oct 5, 2011 in Business Change Business Tools Leadership Other Ramblings Quotes business management organizational change postaweek2011
  Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson How’s the job going? Is it what you expected? Are you achieving the things you set out to do? Perhaps you’re looking for a change of scen...
• Leading Change | Changing Self to Change Team Behaviour
  on Oct 5, 2011 in Business Change Business Tools Leadership Other Ramblings Quotes business management organizational change postaweek2011
  Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – Arthur Christopher Benson How’s the job going? Is it what you expected? Are you achieving the things you set out to do? Perhaps you’re looking for a change of scen...
• 5 Models for Leading Change | Leading Project Teams
  on Oct 3, 2011 in Project Management Leadership Business Change Stakeholders Project Organisation Business Tools postaweek2011 emotional intelligence daniel goleman michael fullan transformational leadership ken blanchard leading change
  Large scale sustainable change needs strong – emotionally intelligent – leadership to succeed. In this post I introduce five models for leading change. No single model is right. However, they all have something valuable on offer and can h...
• Recovering From a Bad Meeting
  on Sep 30, 2011 in Business Tools Communication Empowerment Leadership Project Management Project Organisation Stakeholders business command and control management meeting organisational change organizational change postaweek2011
  How mechanical are your meetings? And how effective are they? Does the group pull together to become a capable force for change? Or is it tripped up by a poorly planned and poorly executed meeting structure? Meetings are an essential part of business...
• 5 Features of a Successful Leader
  on Sep 28, 2011 in Communication Empowerment Leadership Other Ramblings Quotes business emotional intelligence management postaweek2011 self-esteem
  Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
• How to Monitor Project Progress
  on Sep 26, 2011 in Planning Project Management Project Tools Risk #pmot postaweek2011 project and program management project plan project progress report project team
  What strategies do you use to control and monitor project progress? How do you face up to reality, especially when things go awry? Here are a few tips that I’ve acquired over the years. Please feel free to contribute to the discussion and add y...
• 5 Flaws of a Failing Leader
  on Sep 21, 2011 in Communication Empowerment Leadership Other Ramblings Quotes business management postaweek2011
  Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
• How to Prepare Highlight Reports | Project Progress Reports
  on Sep 20, 2011 in Planning Project Management Project Tools business highlight report management postaweek2011 prince2 project and program management project manager project planning project progress report project status report
  To be honest, I’m not a big fan of the highlight report: the PRINCE2 term given to a project progress report. This is, in part, because they tend to describe a project in the present rather than forecasting its state when it is should be comple...
• RAG Status Definition
  on Sep 16, 2011 in Project Management Project Tools Stakeholders business managment postaweek2011 project manager project reporting project risk Risk
  Project monitoring and control – see How to Prepare Highlight Reports – is about measuring progress, taking corrective action, and keeping stakeholders informed. Progress reports often use RAG status as a visual que to project performance...
• Management By Walking Around
  on Sep 14, 2011 in Empowerment Leadership Other Ramblings Quotes business management management by walking around managing by walking about mbwa postaweek2011 quote of the week
  One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak – G. K. Chesterton What kind of manager are you? Do you sit in your ivory tower directing your teams or do you get out of the office? Perhaps you engage people and lead by e...

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