Resource Center
Welcome to the LeadVantage Consulting Resource Center. Consider this a place to explore leading edge thinking on the topics of Project Management, Business Improvement, and Business Management Coaching.
Over the last 15 years, we have compiled our favorite content on our favorite subjects. We encourage you to explore our site, tell your friends and colleagues and visit often. The Resource Center includes the following material:
- LeadVantage Consulting Newsletters (current and archived)
- Book recommendations and summaries
- LeadVantage Consulting articles
- Video featuring current management topics (coming soon)
We would love to hear from you. If you have comments or questions about anything you saw on the Resource Center or any topics that you would like to see added, please contact us.
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Program Management: Music To My Ears
Project Management, Articles Often thought of as a highly administrative function that simply generates fancy reports and tracks time, LeadVantage Consulting believes that effective PMOs provide project leadership, standards, critical decision-making information, and support to projects using 11 key components. When a PMO is managed well, it can be music to your ears. |
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Get Out of the Office and Inspect the Dining Room
Project Management, Articles As managers today, we often latch onto a key indicator to tell us how we are performing in a particular area. The project status reports say the work is on time. The sales numbers are meeting expectations. The employee retention numbers have been high for many months. Often we are lulled into a false sense of security based on our favored report or metric. While we rest in the comfort of the positive information, the situation is actually deteriorating and, ultimately, won’t meet expectations. |
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Enterprise Focus Needed to Meet Government Requirement
Project Management, Case Studies Over a very condensed period, our client experienced rapid growth through acquisition and faced challenges with bringing together a variety of businesses and channels. As a result, the company operated as silos rarely leveraging strategy, resources, or processes. |
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The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
Coaching, Books “Don’t take on the problem if the problem isn’t yours. That Monkey doesn’t belong to you.” |
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The Zen of Listening
Coaching, Books "Of approximately eight hundred thousand words in the English language, we use about eight hundred on a regular basis. Those eight hundred words have fourteen thousand meanings. By division there are about seventeen meanings per word. In other words, we have a one-in-seventeen chance of being understood as we intended." |
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Getting Things Done
Coaching, Books David Allen’s Getting Things Done is a great book about organization, productivity, and yes – getting things done. But the underlying principle is quite simple. Don’t rely on your mind to get things done. |
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Death by Meeting
Coaching, Books Death by Meeting is a great book centered around the problems and the cures for bad meetings. Lencioni provides a framework to understanding the root causes for a bad meeting and then provides a model for fixing them. |
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The First 90 Days
Coaching, Books Each year, more than half a million managers enter new positions in Fortune 500 companies. If you are one of these managers and find yourself in a new leadership position, the First 90 Days is a must-read. Michael Watkins contends that you are allowed 90 days to prove yourself. |
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