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Villanova Friday: The conclusions

April 1, 2011

This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

For the last 8 weeks I have been taking the Maximising IT/IS Team Effectiveness course with Villanova University. I’ve been blogging about my experiences of the virtual learning environment in this series. Over the years I have tried classroom courses, a weekend project management courses and distance learning. The Villanova experience added to the range [...]

Villanova Friday, Week 6: Team Productivity

March 11, 2011

This entry is part 6 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

This week I had two weeks of lectures to listen to on the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University. Given a busy day job, this was a challenge. So much for my week off last week. This week it has been all about managing teams in the most effective way. [...]

Villanova Friday, Week 5: Holiday

March 4, 2011

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

I’m on holiday this week and have done no studying at all. The good news is that the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University is very flexible and I’ll be able to catch up the online classes next week. The bad news is that I have twice as much studying [...]

Villanova Friday, Week 4: Effective Communication

February 25, 2011

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

This week on the Maximizing IS/IT Team Effectiveness course I am taking with Villanova University the focus has been on communication. We’ve looked at effective strategies for one-on-one spoken conversations with people, including how to determine the preferences of the person you are speaking to. About two thirds of people prefer to take in information [...]

Villanova Friday, Week 3: IT Leadership Alchemy

February 18, 2011

This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series Villanova Friday

This video discusses the course text book I’m using for my Maximizing IT/IS Team Effectiveness studies. For those of you who would prefer to read the transcript, it’s below. This is the course book that I’m using for the Maximizing IT/IS Team Effectiveness course that I’m taking with Villanova University at the moment. It’s called [...]

Why I wouldn’t do a weekend course again

November 1, 2010

I recently took the 5 day Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) course with Maven Training. I’ve done courses with Maven in the past, and I’ve also met many of their team and their CEO Melanie Franklin. But the reason I choose them this time was because of their innovative approach to delivering training in a way [...]

More on PMD Pro

May 24, 2010

Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore. They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective. “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme. They wanted to do something “by the sector for the [...]

Keeping up to date: the value of training

June 24, 2009

This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Office Goddess

This month in the Office Goddess series, I’m talking about training. I meet a lot of dynamic, switched on women doing what I do. After all, most people who attend conferences and networking events, or who get in touch with me through this blog, are people who are already aware that it takes a bit [...]

PRINCE2 for Girls!

February 27, 2009

It was at the BPUG Congress last year that I started talking to the training company Maven about their idea for a PRINCE2 course for women only. Their team had been inspired by this blog and thought that an all-female training environment would make a unique and enriching learning opportunity. I agree. Girls typically do [...]

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