Valency Blog - Best Practices in Capital Project Mangement

FAQ: When should Project Risk be Assessed?

by Sandra MacGillivray | Apr 3, 2023 | Other

When developing a project risk management process, project complexity is the main consideration in determining when to assess project risk. Regardless of the size or complexity of the project, it’s important to identify risks as early as possible. Early...

Facilitating Capital Project Workshops: Leveraging Diversity in Project Teams

by Eve Koch Nichol | Mar 20, 2023 | Other, Facilitation

In the construction industry, project teams are incredibly diverse and include a wide range of project stakeholders. These stakeholders represent a variety of knowledge areas with different levels of expertise. Apart from this cognitive and epistemic diversity,...

Collaborative Decision Making – Facilitating Productive Project Workshops

by Sandra MacGillivray | May 10, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

How frequently do you leave a collaborative workshop or meeting feeling frustrated that nothing was really accomplished? There may have been a lot of great discussions, but people kept going off on tangents. Maybe too many ideas were proposed, and it was impossible...

Guidelines for Collaborative Hybrid Meetings

by Sandra MacGillivray | Mar 29, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

As businesses transition back to in-office work, a shift to hybrid meetings is underway, where some people attend in person and others attend virtually. For larger and more complex facilitated workshops that require strong participant engagement and collaboration such...

Key Facilitation Techniques for Leading Capital Project Workshops

by Sandra MacGillivray | Mar 10, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

A common misconception around strong facilitators is that they were born with the skills necessary to facilitate productive workshops. The ability to guide a group to reach a conclusion is ultimately achieved through the understanding and practice of core facilitation...

Facilitation Techniques for Capital Project Workshops – Using Polls

by Sandra MacGillivray | Feb 2, 2022 | Other, Facilitation

Do you find it challenging to keep meeting participants actively engaged and ensure you have buy-in for decisions being made in meetings? Often, when a few people are driving a discussion it can be difficult to gauge whether “the silence” in the meeting...