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 Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Benefits your Role in the Project
Everyone benefits from a well-defined project, and it takes many people to do a project well. In this post, I will explain how you benefit from participating in a PDRI session based on your role within the project/organization. It is important to understand how each...Evolution of the Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) for Scope Definition in Capital Construction Projects
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. The results are critical in the determination of whether a project is...Barriers to Achieving a Well-Defined Scope in Construction
Projects, by their nature, are dynamic – critical issues and decisions arise throughout a project’s lifecycle. However, it is much easier to influence a project’s outcome during front end planning when expenditure is relatively low, than it is to affect the outcome...Front End Planning – Is it Worth the Time and Expense?
In capital projects, what do you think is the leading cause of cost and schedule overruns? Industry experts around the world all agree that poor scope definition in a project is the leading cause of cost and schedule uncertainty. In fact, the Construction Industry...