Collaborative Decision Making – Facilitating Productive Project Workshops
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
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
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
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...
How the Construction Readiness Assessment Differs from a Checklist
The Construction Readiness Assessment is often mistaken for an in-house construction readiness checklist. Several organizations implementing the Construction Readiness Assessment are making the transition as part of a larger initiative to standardize processes and...
Leveraging PDRI Reviews to Address Challenges Posed by COVID-19
Capital construction projects completing front end planning during COVID-19 are facing some of the most challenging circumstances in recent history. What does this mean for organizations that rely on PDRI reviews as a means of ensuring high-quality scope definition...
PDRI MATRS – Taking Front End Planning to the Next Level
With its inception almost 25 years ago, the Project Definition Rating Index, better known as PDRI, has continued to evolve, becoming an industry-standard practice adopted by organizations worldwide. At Valency, we are dedicated to keeping clients abreast of the latest...
Measuring Construction Readiness for Project Restarts after Covid-19
A second take on pre-construction planning Across the world, capital construction projects are in various states of completeness – some are proceeding at a much slower pace, while others are postponed indefinitely or even cancelled. This in itself is not unusual,...