Implementing Projects and Tasks

Properly scope projects, get commitments you can count on, make progress visible, and hold your team accountable for getting things done on time.

• Improve task compliance with good “task hygiene”
• Overcome the “planning fallacy” with premortems
• Scope Strategic Projects (Big Rocks) using the RACI model
• Projects roles and accountability
• Facilitate project meetings effectively to drive progress
• After Action Review debrief meetings
• Instill a “no-excuses” culture
• The importance of processes and checklists
• “Burn the Boats” to implement change
• Grading team performance
• Praise people the right way
• Hold people accountable for performance with “radical candor”