When the Company Cuts the Travel Budget

A recent survey indicates that some companies are putting the brakes on business travel. This has the potential to impact how you invest in your people when it comes to their personal and professional development.

What are some options when buying airfare is not one?

• Bring it in-house. The price point for bringing a class in-house (where we come to you) can be significantly less expensive than sending people out to individual classes. Could you use some help delivering your projects more successfully? Or developing the leadership skills of your organization? We can partner with you on an in-house engagement that can get you the capabilities you need while saving you money.


• Take another look at e-learning. Visit our e-learning home to see how our solutions can help develop the knowledge and skills you need at an incredibly low price. In particular, check out the site license deals!


• Keep an eye out for our web conferences. Many of them are free and allow you to tap into expert insights without having step onto a jet bridge.

You can develop your teams while being a responsible steward of a limited budget. Give us a call and we can help match your budget with our services to help grow your staff.

Labels: e-learning, learning, project management

posted by Andy at 12:07 PM  

The Tech Disaster Awards

I enjoyed reading Jake Widman's recent article about The Tech Disaster Awards: What You Can Learn from ITs Biggest Project Failures.

Maybe it's just a relief that none of the listed belong to me or any of my clients!

Regardless, the reason I invite you to read it is that even the big failures have lessons that can be drawn from them. Do we really need to be reminded that it's important to know what we're building before we start cutting code?

Apparently so.

Enjoy the article. As a next step, here's a suggestion: Click here (or on the image to the right) to view a related clip from our popular Lipstick on a Pig keynote. Watch for the clip entitled Project Success and Failure. It has some valuable insights to help you and your team understand what leads to project failure (and how to better set your project up for success).

Here's to no Ig Nobel awards in your future!

Labels: crisis, Information Technology, learning, Lipstick on a Pig, project management

posted by Andy at 1:55 PM