ST. LOUIS, MO, January 03, 2011 — Bizmanualz, Inc., a St. Louis-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider for the document compliance marketplace, announced that Steve Flick, Bizmanualz Product Director, was awarded the rank of “Advanced Communicator-Silver” (AC-S) by Toastmasters International (TI) in November, 2010.

Earning the AC-S award is an outstanding accomplishment. The Toastmasters educational program is self-paced; earning the AC-S demonstrates Steve’s strong self-discipline, dedication, and his desire to continually improve himself.  Additionally, it shows enthusiasm and dedication to the Toastmasters program and the individual’s club (in Steve’s case, South County Toastmasters). By achieving the AC-S rank, Steve demonstrated the ability to share his communication skills with other club members and help them improve theirs.

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The first phase in any project management process is project initiation, where the goal is to uncover the project’s scope — the boundaries for resources, expectations, results, feasibility, the team, and your requirements — and produce a project charter.  Now that you know the project’s goals and scope and you have a project charter, what’s next?

Project planning is the second phase of any project management process and consists of developing the core planning elements.  The output of this phase is a set of project management documents, or plans.  The most important one is the project plan itself.  (Figure 1 shows the table of contents for a project plan.)

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Last week we discussed how to ensure procedures are used. Along with communication, training and auditing, we brought up the concept of buy-in. We thought the topic of buy-in deserved further discussion. So, what is buy-in?

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I heard an expression once that rang really true with me. It said, “If an employee is surprised by anything in their performance review, then you are doing a poor job as a manager.” We should all recognize the importance of good communication, but how good are we at executing and employing basic communication principles as managers? If any of your employees come into a performance review unsure of what is going to happen, then you should know you are not doing as well as you could.

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