The Right Career Path – a Guide to Career Self-Reflection

As a professional in the staffing and advisory services industries, I see, first-hand, the importance of a candidate finding the right opportunity, rather than just another opportunity. Many who graduate from traditional four-year colleges and universities are left with staggering debt and, sometimes, underwhelming or unfulfilling jobs. While I believe it’s okay for one to […]

The Value of Collaboration on a Project

A common Project Execution Strategy on projects is to have individual teams/contractors be responsible for specific parts of the project with minimal interaction between the different organizations. For example, the early engineering phase of a project could be completed by one engineering firm, then the information is transitioned to a different firm to complete the […]

Project Risk Management – A Project Manager’s Perspective

In the Project Management Institute (PMI) world, Project Risk Management is one of 10 knowledge areas.. Unfortunately, as organizations execute projects, it is often relegated to secondary importance or ignored completely. Why? Because risk management is often difficult for project teams to wrap their arms around. It’s easier to simply increase project contingency in the […]

Where Are We/ Are We There Yet?

A manufacturing plant was installing a new packing line. This was a $10 million project and came at a time of high-volume demand on their existing business. I was the Project Manager (PM) but would soon be transitioning to another assignment. Before leaving the project, I wanted to resolve as many outstanding issues as possible […]

The Bundled Advantage – What is it and how will it help my organization?

As Division President of The Premier Resources Group, I am honored to pen the inaugural blog post. The Premier Resources Group (also known as “PRG”) has grown substantially since its inception due, in large part, to organic growth in market demand for staffing and advisory services within the construction and engineering industry. In short, we […]