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

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT I started my first company in 1987 at 25 years old after completing my tour as an Air Force Officer.  I had several quick successes which were very nice, but because of this beginners luck,  I did not develop the capabilities needed for enduring success.  Over the next ten

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Part of many courses we teach at Cheetah Learning, in the spirit of helping people efficiently accomplish their important projects, is the crucial aspect of setting the “right” goals FIRST before starting a project to achieve those goals.   Cheetah students learn how to set and evaluate their goals

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT The more robust your business processes, the more freedom you have to live your life the way you’d like to in the moment without having to micro manage the processes required to run your operation. I’ve lived by this axiom the past two decades and it’s served me very

Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT This month’s theme is inspired by a new on the road lifestyle. (For those who follow this blog you may have noticed I’ve not been posting as frequently).  I took advantage of a seller’s market in Portland, Oregon this spring to flip a property for the company we were