Perhaps most importantly, you understand the need for the the correct vehicle of communication for the correct audience. This could mean a pdf report for your weekly report, a quick email to give your client a change of plan. Maybe it's a phone call to talk in person about an important issue, giving you a chance to work your current good relations before getting down to business. But you knew all that already, and your ducks are in line. You've got process. You've got methods. You've got a plan. But wait. Something is still telling you that all is not quite right. You ask yourself "is it me?". Why am I still so taxed at the end of the day? Afterall, all this communications is supposed to make my job of being a project manager easier, or at least better, right?

That leads me to where I'm headed with all this. Perhaps we need to refocus on our goals vs. the means to our goals. Don't get me wrong. We still need all those great communication methods that we've talked about. Maybe we just need to re-examine those processes to see what are it's true value.

I'm not going to bore you with the details of examining each vehicle and nit pick the pros and cons. In fact, if you are interested in those details such as learning how to effectively run a meeting, what are the 3 phases of a meeting and what you should be focusing on in each phase, then consider taking our in class offering. There, we'll spend considerable amounts of time examining this and much more. Today however, I'm going to jump ahead a couple of pages here, and talk about something I believe can hold a lot of value without consuming many man hours in the process. You know what I'm talking about. Yes, I'm talking about the dashboard.