Use this event planning template to build a repeatable process to manage complex, public events.

Project kick-offs are your opportunity to start projects well—so they start effectively and are at lower risk of needing to be rescued later. (We've all been there, where you're having heart-to-heart meetings on a Tuesday at dinner time.) Get started on a collaborative, productive foot, and you'll make sure everyone on the team has access to all the information they need and a clear outline of their expectations.

Whether you're planning a job transition or you're preparing for a potential layoff (or even if you've been laid off this morning), here are the steps you need to take to make sure you're prepared for this stressful event.

When you start creating your personal playbooks, you'll notice that you start to feel more confident tackling new projects because you won't feel like you're reinventing the wheel.

If you're a project leader and you dread a meeting that you hold every week, that's probably a good sign you don't need it. Meetings aren't progress unless you do a lot of work to make sure they're progress. Getting folks together alone may not help advance the work because meetings are a tool to solve for specific needs.

Working independently and effectively means tapping into your own resources to anticipate, solve, and address problems without deflecting challenges onto peers and managers. Finding ways to solve problems with the tools and resources you already have access to is being resourceful.

Retros help team member collaborate with others, and they help ensure we’re taking a moment to evaluate our work processes and spot ways to get better.

Hiring fractional (or part-time) executives and staff gives leaders a super-flexible opportunity to tap into specialized talent when they're growing their teams and operations. If you're not ready to commit to a full-time, permanent hire, or you want to tap into deeply senior folks you might not be able to afford to hire full-time, grabbing that fractional or advisory consultant can help you level up with the resources you can manage.

There's a step a lot of folks skip between being assigned a project and kicking off work: project discovery. In the project discovery phase, you're an investigator who's doing a background check for a project. You're figuring out why the project is needed, who's excited about it and who has concerns, and what's needed to get the project done well.

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