Put Structure Around Your Team Interactions
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I’ve written before about how I structure my weeks and given you tips for a productive day. My friend Chris grounded that by talking about how high performance is a choice. If you’ve read my other posts, you know the first thing I put on my calendar is vacation. That’s all great since I work
Close Shouldn’t be Good Enough
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My favourite local bike shop has a problem, and that sucks for me because I’m the one that ends up paying for it. The problem is that every time I take my bike in for service I end up taking it back a second time to ‘fix’ something that’s not working quite right. This week
Components of a Good Project Plan
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Planning is so important, but often the first thing abandoned, and that’s sad. I’m really good at maintaining my weekly planning sessions but I’m not always great at doing a project plan. By ‘not always great’ I mean that until recently, I haven’t really had any specific method to build out proper project plans. A scope
February 2015 Reading
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If you’re new to this blog, I do a monthly post with a recap of books I’ve read in the previous month. Today’s post covers the books I read in February 2015. Along with the recap, I also give away a copy of my favorite business book each month, so get on my email list
On working overtime and freelance
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Most of the time the reason you’re pulling and all-nighter is that you didn’t plan well in the first place. You said YES when you should have said NO to the project.
This should be your only goal in hard client conversations
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Do you ever have to talk to a client about budget or the features they want to ‘throw in’ to a project? How about talking to a client that’s clearly not happy with your work and has requested a call? It sucks and it’s stressful usually, until you make one crucial change in your goal
I don’t want to be satisfied
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There are a few things I don’t want to be in life. I don’t want to be satisfied and I don’t want to be average or normal. Normal is broken. Normal is having credit card debt and student loans. A ’normal’ freelancer is constantly searching for the next client. Actually, scratch that. They’re not searching
Even if you’re busy, don’t skip planning
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There was a time 2 years ago when I said I did GTD, but that wasn’t entirely true at the time. While I used OmniFocus as a task manager, I wasn’t fully committed to GTD because I skipped the most crucial part. The weekly review. But I’m busy The thing is, I was busy and a
You failed if the client asks for an update
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I’ve got a bold statement for you: If you get an email from a client asking for a status update you already failed at the project. Yes, you read that right: If your client asks for a status update you failed on the project. Asking for a status update means your client didn’t have any
We will market to our customers
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We will market for our clients and give away our secrets even if your competition uses them. A rising tide raises all boats.
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