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Browsing Archive: January, 2010

The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence

Posted by Toby Elwin on Friday, January 29, 2010, In : Talent Management 

Emotional Intelligence is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on others.  Still a little to warm and fuzzy?  What about a 30% increase in bottom line performance?   

Emotional Intelligence is vital to maximize any return on human capital.  Why does this matter?  The happier your people are, and you can't claim happiness without clarity and consistency from your leaders, teams, and organization culture, research shows an increase bot...
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4 tips to use Twitter for project management

Posted by Toby Elwin on Thursday, January 21, 2010, In : Portfolio Planning 

In my last post I presented a case to manage your projects as a business portfolio.  The ability to deliver projects on time, on budget, and within scope directly impacts your organization's ability to compete and stay alive and project failure is an organization-wide risk.

In this post I want to introduce Twitter to manage projects.  Why Twitter?  Twitter is a great communication and community collaboration tool and once a project starts, 90% of a project manager's job is communication.  Proj...
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Why your business strategy is a project portfolio

Posted by Toby Elwin on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, In : Portfolio Planning 

It starts with an executive need:  a new market evaluation; improve operating margins; a game-changing technology; your competition is eating your lunch.  Whatever the reason, a project is how an organization translates an executive strategy.  

The ability to scope and deliver a project is a competitive advantage.  The best organizations realize project management capability as a strategic differentiator, the lagging organizations only staff project management skills within Information Technol...
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