Each month Mindavation will offer a template from our Project Templates CD free of charge. Don't miss out on this opportunity!

We are offering a template to assist you in assessing the skills you bring to the table as a project manager. The Project Managers Skills Assessment Template is useful as a means to evaluate other project managers as well. It is healthy to take a step back and reflect on what we could or should be doing differently - this template can help point the way towards that improvement and growth.

January 15-16, 2009 Denver, Colorado Agile Project Management

Intelligent Disobedience Public Course Information
Mindavation is looking to hold a public offering of our popular Intel ligent Disobedience course in Denver, CO during the second quarter of 2009. If you are interested in attending this public course, please call us at 1-888-866-MIND (6463). As with all of our public classes, a 10% discount is available when three or more people register together. So give us a call and reserve your space today!

Looking for a class to attend? Would you like to meet us face to face? If we are in your area, feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting.

By Bob McGannon, PMP

As busy project managers manage their precious personal and project schedules, they look for any means to save time and money. The need to do this is amplified by the economic conditions present today. A tempting target for time and cost reduction activities is the communication tasks that are a major part of the successful project manager's responsibility. We are tempted to try and save time and money by foregoing face to face meetings, or the organization of conference calls, opting instead to sending emails as they are quick and cheap. Don't do it! Emails are fraught with danger, and lurking costs due to miscommunication, potential misunderstanding and a lack of personal understanding that can accompany the "email cost savings". Here are suggestions for guidelines as to when NOT to use email.

1) Engaging in debates, deriving new solutions or settling complaints

The agenda for your meeting or your objective should be a primary consideration for when to use email (or any other medium, for that matter). You are simply not going to be successful at achieving your objectives when you use a "low touch" tool when you need a highly interactive process to achieve your objective.

Mindavation offers more than 30 customizable project templates and tools to make your life easier! The CD includes full project lifecycle templates and tools.

Documents are in MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project 2003 (and Adobe). Modify each template to suit YOUR business and project needs.

Price (including shipping & handling): USD$100