As PMs and business managers overall take on increasingly heavy workloads, it makes sense that efficiencies should be incorporated into the work to increase productivity and spend less time on repetitive manual tasks.

- Paretos to have enough perspective? - Adapted measurement tools? - Experts? - An ishikawa diagram? - An indoor meeting with all the actors concerned? No indeed ! - Your legs - Your eyes

To the owners or executive managers of SMEs looking for serenity and time control, even if they rarely think of it spontaneously, I like to advise to start with the implementation of a 5S system.

Since project as a subject of Project Management discpline is a unique journey, as such in fact it represents also a change, the subject of Change Management discipline.

Many times at the job interview (for a project manager) I listen the question: what is the most important in the project for you? the scope of delivery? the time limits? the costs? This question is set for understanding of the candidate.

Even in the most performing organisations, people are confrontated to problems on a daily basis. What makes the difference between a high and a low performing organisation is the ability to solve efficiently the problems met on a daily basis. Low performing organisations simply take the problems as a bad chance and they are complaining about them to justify the low performance. High performing organisations take each problem as an opportunity to improve. Three basic mistakes in the Problem Solving process are: - Rush instead of thinking & acting fastly ; - Think too much and keep in the planning phase for many "good" reasons (meanwhile the problem has changed) ; - Run alone and not empower the team (no participative approach).

We are currently fully facing the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to overcome the obstacles that this time brings to our companies and organizations. What could this situation tell us? Could we have been better prepared as managers on operational level?

Trying to convince someone with an argument is an attempt to give reasons why you believe a statement, why you want something, or why you do something. The argument refers to your critical abilities, your reason.