How to Use RAG Status Ratings to Track Project Performance
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Project progress reports often use the traffic light rating system or RAG status definition as a visual cue to project performance.
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Issue 1: Welcome to the Lazy Leader Newsletter!
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This is the first issue of my newsletter, and I truly appreciate your interest as an early subscriber. I’m still finding my feet and working out how best to prepare and structure new content, so please have a look around and tell me what you think.
3 Truths to Grow Your Leadership For the Long Term
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Leaders face an overwhelming number of opportunities to improve, create change and make the world a better place.
The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Project Schedule and Cost Estimation
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In this article, the Lazy Leader takes a practical look at project schedule and cost estimation before explaining how to estimate project costs.
4 Reasons Why Project Planning Is Essential
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The project planning process is holistic and encompassing. This post describes the process using a simple and easy to remember mnemonic.
Leadership Values: Is Friendship a Leadership Quality?
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Is friendship a leadership quality? Learn how the values of friendship can inspire leaders and help build team cohesion.
How to Stay Blameless and Avoid Taking Risks 😜
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In this post, the Lazy Leader explains why transparency is the first step towards leadership accountability. Take responsibility for your actions or play it safe. You decide.
Leadership Values: Courage and Respect
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Leaders who manipulate the truth create dishonest cultures in their organization. Telling the truth is the right thing to do. But it's not always the easiest path.
Leadership Values: Leading With Excellence
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To achieve excellence, we sometimes we need a game change. Dick Fosbury inspires us to innovate and turn a flop into success!
Embrace Failure Or Put Your New Business at Risk
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Running a business is not for the faint of heart. You must have determination, courage, and strength. Read on and learn how to switch your perception of what failure means and learn to use it to build your new business.
5 Models For Leading Change: A Brief Introduction
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In this article, we briefly introduce 5 models for leading change. Learn how to put them to use and become a more effective and rounded leader.
Is Multitasking a Myth? Or Is It Better to Focus on One Task At a Time?
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In this post, the Lazy Leader takes a look at multitasking and concludes that staying focused is needed to get things done.
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Leadership Skills
In today’s uncertain times, organizations must utilize all of their assets—know-how, technology, and people—to survive. As a leader, you have a great opportunity to champion inside your organization. But what do you need to do to influence people and change?
Leading Change
Leading in a culture of change is less about following process steps and far more about understanding and insight. Do you have the confidence and capability to take risks and navigate your team through change?
Personal Learning
Connect with our community to tap into a broad wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise, and learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. Are you ready to reach your full potential?
Leadership Teams
We all manage teams, yes? And how often is poor performance at the root of those issues that give us so much grief? So, what do we need to do to create and sustain high-performance teams?
Project Management
We all want to be a project manager, right? But what does being a project manager mean, and how can we strengthen our project management skills to successfully engage others, enthusiastically plan and control tasks, and identify and manage risk?
Strategy Tools
The essential and the most popular business strategy tools for anyone who has to work with people. The Lazy Leader offers well-researched and well-explained strategy tools that are easy to understand. Do you want to improve yourself? Or do you want to understand and improve others?
How to Guides
Our how-to guides will help you and challenge you. Our topics include personal learning, self-reflection, managing teams and leading change, and are always brief and straight to the point. So let us help you solve problems!
Models and Theories
Because there are so many models and frameworks of leadership, it can get a little confusing. So, the Lazy Leader offers members the Rough Guide to Leadership Models. In this series, we present various leadership models clearly and concisely, so you may reflect on what they have to offer you.
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