An organisation chart is an immediate reflection of the clarity of thoughts of the top management. Hence, many a times, it is easy to judge the level of business excellence in an organisation simply by looking at its organisational structure. As part of my workshops and consultancy across industry sectors I often come across a […]
A project plan, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), is: “…a formal, approved document used to guide both project execution and project control. ….”. A very important aspect of any project plan is Project Scheduling. So much so that in many organisations the term “project schedule” is interchangeably used to refer to a project plan even though the […]
When an employee faces a challenging or a delayed task, it is not unusual for the boss to remark that ‘You have made a “project” out of this !!”. Even in our day-to-day parlance we loosely use the word “project” in connection with delays and/or complicated situations undermining the true potential of the word “project”.Very […]
Every meeting provides an opportunity to harness the unique creativity of participants as also the collective intelligence of the team. And an organization, which fails to do so is losing a golden opportunity to transform itself positively. Meetings fail or remain ineffective when individuals are unaware about simple brain friendly techniques to tap the full […]
Many years ago, one of my managers gave me a set of team nominations from which a team had to be selected for the best project award. Each of the nomination was pretty comprehensive with details about the respective teams achievement. I went ahead and made individual Mind Maps capturing the details for each team […]
A question that I am frequently asked is how does Mind Mapping benefit an Organization? Mind Mapping as a technique has such a wide application that we need to delve into the roles across an organizational hierarchy to answer this common, but very pertinent question. This is what I attempt in this blog. Mind Mapping […]





