by lewsauder | Mar 24, 2017 | Communication, Leadership
“I wish I had more meetings to attend,” said no one ever. It has become a universal law that meetings are bad. They waste time. They rarely accomplish anything. Nobody likes them, but everybody continues to schedule them. They are a necessary evil. They are a primary...
by lewsauder | Mar 10, 2017 | Career Management, Leadership
Have you ever watched a president’s State of the Union Address? Regardless of the president or his party affiliation, the President tends to describe utopia. If you knew nothing else about what was going on, you would believe that that particular president was...
by lewsauder | Feb 24, 2017 | Career Management, Leadership
Every president’s leadership personality As some of you know, I listen to audiobooks and podcasts in the car as a way to pass the time on my long daily commute to and from work. I recently finished listening to the podcast series “Presidential.” This is a 44-episode...
by lewsauder | Feb 10, 2017 | Communication, Leadership, Stakeholder Management
It has probably happened to you at one time or another. You’re sitting in a meeting with your boss present when an issue comes up. You’ve been trying to resolve that issue for a week. It’s the first time your boss is hearing about it. He asks why he wasn’t made aware...
by lewsauder | Jan 27, 2017 | Career Management, Communication, Leadership
I’ve often mentioned that a project manager is the CEO of his or her project. Knowing that a CEO needs to be able to communicate in many ways, the project manager has to have a wide variety of communication skills in order to be effective. Verbal Communication Skills...
by lewsauder | Jan 13, 2017 | Career Management, Communication, Leadership, Planning
In my early days of managing projects, the tasks ran the show. I was the man with the to-do list. I filled it out every night before leaving work. Every morning I religiously reviewed it, verified the priorities, and executed each item for a successful day. The...
