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The Five Phases of Project Planning

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Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap The Five Phases of Project Planning Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 11, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Allen goes on to this is an ideal model for planning projects. Brainstorming – Brainstorming generates the ideas for moving the project to completion.

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Another Christmas Planning Checklist

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Prepare budget and plan projects: Figure out how much you are able to spend. Last year, I posted a Christmas planning checklist to use starting in November. Here’s a simple checklist to help you organize your Christmas holiday celebrations. Sit down with the family and decide who does what.

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Improve Communication

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Most e-mail software will automate this process for you. The Mind Mapping Manifesto The Bubble Planner GoalPro Goal-Setting Software great christmas gift ideas - Buy one share of stock: Disney, Harley Davidson, Target, eBay, etc small movers Leather Furniture www.spacify.com/family-room-furniture.htm - for any room of the house.

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8 Tips to Help You Clean Off Your Desk

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Use the right tools: Set a timer for the length of time you have decided to work on this project. Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Boxes or storage containers to use for sorting. Garbage/recycling bags or box for shredding.

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Increase Productivity

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Buy inexpensive software or services to help streamline your processes. Not all projects or undertakings are created equal. Ask them for the ideas, tips or secrets to their productivity success. Research on-line. The number of productivity how-to websites is staggering. The standards you have set for yourself will not always apply.

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How to Improve Your Public Speaking

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It could be giving a project update at a staff meeting, selling your product to investors, or speaking to the board of directors. What you do is see yourself as being in a dream and all the “other people&# there are just projections of your own mind that you’re creating and then that allows you to totally relax.

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10 Sites for Quotations

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Tom Peters’ “Top 41″ quotes and other free stuff – the Top 41 quotes are a project from 2006 that are compiled in a PDF and offered —along with a load of other free Tom Peters’ material— for download. World’s best quotes in 1-10 words – 10 quotes that are less than 10 words.

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