The Management Of Difficult Projects – Lessons From Our Archive
Summary
Fiona Woolston, Group Account Director, West Midlands at Copper Consultancy is a communications specialist and her choice of reports from the Association’s archive, The Management of Difficult Projects (1994), provided a wonderful perspective on the role of communications in major projects as she reviewed this report that drew on the lessons from the London Stock Exchange, Channel Tunnel, Nimrod AEW and Inland Revenue programmes.
Read the original Management of Difficult Projects report (Members Only)
The first of the Lessons from our Archive videos from Fiona Woolston, Group Account Director, West Midlands for Copper Consultancy, that focuses on the communication lessons highlighted in the 1994 Report.
Clear, simple touchstones, stamina and an understanding of team strengths
The best contract is one that is written and need never be referred to again!
In her second short video, Fiona explores the correlation between the skills of the project delivery specialist and the communications professional.
Who cares what colour we paint the hangar, when we should have been building a ship?
In her final video, Fiona Woolston, explains why so many of the stumbling blocks with projects tend to boil down to poor communication.
View the complete series of Lessons from our Archives interviews