Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT In the news lately there has been much complaint how little attention main stream media gave to the floods in Louisiana. This has spurred much conversation with my peers about how many of us have become numb to the “news,” just curating only the information we wish to receive. […]
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CCPM, PMI-ACP, RYT As I contemplate this topic of building bridges, I wonder if we are living in increasingly divisive, and polarized times or is that how I am perceiving the information coming at me from a variety of news sources? The only reason you need to build a bridge is to
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Yesterday was cleaning service day out here at the Alaska Research Garden. I had a couple cheetah staff visiting, so we went into town while the cleaning service was over. I didn’t stick around to supervise (and really who wants to supervise the cleaning service anyhow?) While we
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT “Those who tell the stories, rule society,” Plato. One of the many things I love about running Cheetah Learning are the success stories we hear from our students. What I love even more is how we are simply the conduit for our students to find their own way to
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT About a decade ago, I kicked off a conference for a group of 5000 project managers at a large telecommunications company. Before the conference, as a way to prepare for the presentation, I had the project managers participate in a short survey on how effective they felt in their
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT There are many reasons over the years I’ve spent more and more time in Alaska, but the main reason is just learning to live in a small remote Alaskan town helps me develop perspectve on what is really important. And it’s most certainly not the luxury items often deemed
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Creating a quality experience for another in any realm is all about listening to them. When through your actions, people are able to meet their needs, they feel heard, seen and acknowledged. This is the higher level of “listening.” Sometimes, though people do not even know they have
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT At Cheetah Learning we live by the core premise that learning is about creation, not consumption. It is in this creative expression that happens through learning I find the most engaged experiences. For me it is all about the quality of engagement. I’d much rather live a life full
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT In the retail world, the big name brands commonly make lower grade products for the big box stores who demand the lowest prices for their customers and also for different levels of customers. For example Black and Decker tools are made by the same company as Dewalt tools. Black
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Throughout the years I’ve run into some very good project management styles and some very bad project management styles. Just recently I finished cleaning up the mess made by this project manager I had to let go a year ago after a huge mishap. It got me thinking, how could
