Are We Really Only as Old as We Feel?

Sometimes, after a hectic day of crises, panics, deadline pressures and all the other stress factors that make up the workday, we can feel a lot older than we really are. But, no matter how we feel, we all fit into what Adwoa Buahene and Giselle Kovary refer to as “generational cohorts.” In their article Leading a Multigenerational Team, they point out that each of the four cohorts they define, has unique, values, characteristics and skills based on its life experience. The challenge for the project manager is to engage all team members, and direct the intergenerational skills to the success of the project.

To many, television is about glamour, adventure and excitement. To others, it’s the task of making sure that everything runs smoothly. TVOntario, Canada’s equivalent to PBS, needed a solution to manage projects involving input from multiple team members, many of them off-site. In Creating and Delivering Great Television Programming, Cynthia West tells us how the problem was solved.

And our regular bloggers, Claude Emond, Andrew Miller, David Barrett are back with their take on what’s going on in the world of project management. We would also like to welcome a new member to the team, Mike Lecky, who will share his views on different aspects of project management each month.