by Leonie McCarthy | Feb 8, 2022 | Communication
Communication is a key skill in project management. Good communication bolsters project delivery. Effective communication includes knowing how to listen and learn from others. When working in dispersed teams (and who isn’t right now), it’s even more...
by Leonie McCarthy | Apr 20, 2021 | Communication
This week has been a big milestone in the transition back to on-site work for us. For the first time in over a year, I spent two days with a client and a vendor on-site working through requirements. It was a long couple of days, and at the end of it, one of the vendor...
by Leonie McCarthy | Jan 20, 2021 | Communication
Meetings are rarely in person these days and they are one of the things that I miss most about face to face work with a group. A whole project team in the same room has an energy and life of its own that is hard to replicate via the small post-it squares that we see...
by Leonie McCarthy | Sep 15, 2020 | Communication, Leadership, Team & People
Thank you Projects by their very nature are often more like a marathon than a sprint. Having water stations along the way in a race creates smaller milestones to look towards and keeps everyone hydrated and less likely to quit from exhaustion. In projects, every win,...
by Leonie McCarthy | Jul 29, 2020 | Communication, Leadership
It was the first project I had ever worked on. New to Sydney and the company, I was seconded to work on the ERP project as a Subject Matter Expert. Maybe they thought to have someone new would be good for the project? This project was hard work, and I loved every...
by Leonie McCarthy | Apr 29, 2020 | Communication
Communication. How we describe events and experiences shapes our attitude to them. The word language comes from the Greek word logos, which means category or concept. With language we categorise, we distinguish and we create our reality. Whilst there are different...
