Entries by StrategyDriven

10 Tools to Audit Your Site

Gaining clarity on where your site really is, is half the battle. SEO must be looked at through 2 lenses – lens 1 has to do with your site, lens 2 is your competition. To move forward and spot opportunities, you have to get your arms around your strengths and weaknesses and that of your […]

StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to Change, part 1 of 2

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 38a – Overcoming Resistance to Change, part 1 of 2 explores the three different […]

Minding Your Manners Online: Eight Lessons in Netiquette That Will Help You Succeed in Social Media Charm School

Social networking provides companies with a user-friendly, fast, and far-reaching way to connect with employees and clients. But as with face-to-face meetings, there are certain rules of etiquette that must be followed to achieve the desired outcome. The Internet is a big, limitless place where the rules of everyday life don’t always apply. You can […]

Project Management Best Practice 8 – Roles and Responsibilities Matrix

Projects optimally progress toward the achievement of their ultimate goals when team members individually and collectively contribute to the completion of project tasks in a non-redundant fashion. While project schedules should assign individuals or groups of individuals to each task, the schedule itself is not likely to include minute tasks or to clearly assign the very specific nuanced contribution of each individual within a group assigned to a task. Another tool, the roles and responsibilities matrix, provides the needed performance assignment clarity for those minute undocumented tasks and group activities; helping eliminate the risk of redundantly performed work that would unnecessarily slow progress and raise costs.