It’s a powerful word. It’s a combination of “capacity” and “ability”. And it’s what hiring managers are looking for in new hire candidates. “Based on what this person has done, can they do what I need them to do to solve the problems that I am hiring them for? Do they have the
I am often asked “How do I help my project teams select which planning and delivery method to use for each project Doc?”. And I answer with the six simple questions that take about 10 or 15 minutes to answer. And they are all about “capability”… First, what is the project manager
Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes identified and named this phenomenon 1978. They defined imposter syndrome as a “condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally, despite being high-performing in external, objective ways [which can] often result [in feelings of] feeling like “a fraud” or “a phony” and doubting their abilities”.1 It’s
“Mentorship”. It’s like a force of nature! When attentive, wise mentors apply the right amounts of pressure at the right times in the right places needed by a chunk of coal, in time it can become an exquisite, highly valuable diamond. It helped me many times in my project management career, and
It’s a concept that I made up formed from two words, and it’s derived from a decade plus years helping 13K+ military veterans translate their experience into a language that Corporate America understands and get hired for those positions. “Provable Fluency” is the combination of three key things: experience doing something, a job +
According to the Small Business Administration, 95% of the twenty-eight million or so small businesses in the US are what they call “micro small businesses”.[1], [2] That’s because small businesses are defined as five hundred employees or less, and micro small businesses (“MSB”) are defined as ten employees or less. That is nine out
To successfully found, operate, grow, and exit a business enterprise takes an entrepreneurial mindset. And when I work with Veteran Owned Businesses, this is one of the topics I cover when I am helping them tell their business’ story in a compelling, fact-driven manner so they can attract the resources necessary to help them
Oxford’s online dictionary defines “capability” as “the power or ability to do something” and “the extent of someone’s ability”. That last part is interesting to me, and represents something a critical mentor to me once explained… “Capability” he said, “is the combination of being able to do something, your ability, to its maximum,
I keep a document to which I add my favorite quotes as I come across ones that really resonate with me. After watching the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando, Florida this past weekend, I heard a fantastic one attributed to the King, golf legend Arnold Palmer. “The road to success
“They’re not raining down on me like manna from heaven! I have my SDVOSB and [INSERT ANY OTHER POPULAR FEDERAL SMALL DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS CATEGORY CERTIFICATION HERE]! What gives?” In my work over the past decade supplying PMP and Sec+ certified veteran project and program managers and PMP and Sec+ training to GovCons, I have
