JEFF RICHARDSON, M.S., is the founder and chief transformational engineer at Jefferson Consulting, a training firm dedicated to collaborative team leadership and iterative team development. He is an organizational development and training project manager with more than 10 years of experience leading strategic change programs in Fortune 100 settings. As a facilitative consultant, Jeff has extensive experience working with program-management, business-development and engineering leaders to improve business results. Jeff's Secrets of Successful Networking program has helped many Bay Area leaders network for the past three years. He is an instructor at UCSC Extension.
jeff.richardson@earthlink.net Jeff Richardson
JEFF RICHARDSON, M.S., is the founder and chief transformational engineer at Jefferson Consulting, a training firm dedicated to collaborative team leadership and iterative team development. He is an organizational development and training project manager with more than 10 years of experience leading strategic change programs in Fortune 100 settings. As a facilitative consultant, Jeff has extensive experience working with program-management, business-development and engineering leaders to improve business results. Jeff's Secrets of Successful Networking program has helped many Bay Area leaders network for the past three years. He is an instructor at UCSC Extension.
jeff.richardson@earthlink.net Leading Online – The Future of Virtual Leadership Development
Leading virtual teams requires a unique set of competencies to master in addition to the traditional project management tools/techniques. The book “Mastering Virtual Teams” by Duarte & Snyder provides a great set that I promote in my training seminars:
Coaching & managing performance without traditional forms of feedback
Selecting and appropriately using electric communication and collaborative technologies
Leading [...]
Managing a Multi-Team Matrix
As the scope of your projects expands, you’ll need to engage teams, not just individuals, from around the world to accomplish your goals. Last weekend I was reminded about the challenging role that leaders who play an interface function between the global leadership team and their organizations. Two consultants from the Organization for Applied Research [...]
The Project Culture Cunundrum
The challenge of managing virtual projects is amplified by a complexity factor equal to the number of cultures represented on your team. When you start doing the computations based on the different cultures related to nationality, company, functional discipline, age and caste you can quickly realize why you and your peers heads are spinning when [...]
Transforming Virtual Teams
The accelerated pace of globalization has made the need for virtual teams essential. The list of benefits that corporate executives tout to stockholders and channel partners is accelerated time to market, customer intimacy, resource utilization, employee retention and cost efficiency, to name a few. The challenge lies at the feet of project managers around the [...]
Winter is the Season for Preparation
Mother Nature can teach us much about managing projects if we apply her fundamental principles to the work. In this installment of The Nature of Project Leadership we will begin with the season of WINTER. This is the season of planning and preparation. There is little hope for a prosperous harvest if [...]
The Nature of Project Leadership
Welcome on a metaphorical exploration of project leadership philosophy and practices. I am fortunate to live on 20 acres in the Santa Cruz mountains rising 3000 feet above the Silicon Valley. Out here Mother Nature’s rules are the law. My background as a transformational engineer and a wilderness guide has enabled me to observe these [...]
