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FACILITATION • ASSET MANAGEMENT
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT • ENVIRONMENTAL

Strategic Plans: Effective Collaboration with External Stakeholders and Staff

Strategic plans bring challenges for effective collaboration. The single biggest disruptor is participants staking out positions for...

Why Are Most Facilitators White College-Educated Women?

SessionLab recently released the outcome of the first comprehensive survey on the practice of facilitation, the State of Facilitation...

Why Do Facilitators Overlook Onboarding and Socializing New Team Members?

People get promoted, change jobs, move, or change teams in other ways. When this happens, new members often join a team, and these...

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ASSET MANAGEMENT

How to Add Preventative Maintenance to Your Asset Management Program

Preventative Maintenance (PM) aims to identify and address issues before they become serious problems. So why is effective preventative...

How to Transfer Asset Data from Capital Projects into an Asset Management System

Transferring asset data from a Project Management Information System (PMIS) and a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is...

Eight Solutions for Effectively Communicating Asset Management to Frontline Staff

Effectively communicating asset management to frontline staff can be challenging. One of the largest barriers is providing a bridge...

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Five Key Enablers for Project Managers to Be Effective Communicators

These are the five key enablers for project managers to be effective communicators. Like a chain, these enablers are only as strong as...

Project Risk: Will Hurricane Idalia Loop for a Second East Coast Landfall?

Hurricanes making a second landfall on the US east coast occur every twenty years. It has been twenty years since the last one. I was...

Successful Project Management Software Needs This One Thing!

Project management software has many advantages over using spreadsheets for managing capital projects. These advantages are most powerful...

ENVIRONMENTAL

Environmental Lawsuit Asserts Going Fishing Requires an NPDES Permit

The Fourth District Court of Appeals rejected arguments that North Carolina shrimpers violate the federal Clean Water by discharging...

Is Your Retirement Portfolio Safe During the PFAS Lawsuits?

Maryland’s largest water utility is joining a national trend of suing manufacturers who produce PFAS (“forever chemicals”) used in...

5 Places You Will Find Forever Chemicals (PFAS) in Your Home

My family is shocked that PFAS is in makeup, cookware, furniture, carpets, and rain gear. They are in disbelief that there isn’t much...