Guidelines

Managing, Evaluating and Communicating in Development

Guidelines are the documents given to the programme, projects and tasks managers with the purpose to give guidance so as to perform actions in accordance with the the objectives and the quality standards of the organization.

The difference between Guidelines and Templates   is that the guidelines set up the standards, while the templates are model documents.

 

Partnership Agreement Guidelines

 

Programme and Project Plan Writing

 

How to establish a healthy communication climate

Project performance reporting

How to prepare a detailed project plan document

Guideline: How to write a scope statement

How to Draft a Concept Paper for EC calls for proposals

The 10 steps to take in defining a problem

Guidelines on How to Put Solutions To Work 

Questions That Can Identify Problems

Guidelines on How to Encourage Openness

Guidelines on How to Build a Trusting Climate

Guidelines on How to avoid Behaviours that Endanger Trust

Guidelines on How Becoming a Better Listener   -  Probes To Encourage  - Probes For Clarity     - Probes To Rephrase

Guidelines for Providing Feedback

Guidelines on Asking questions

Dealing with non-talkers:  Probes To Encourage  - Probes For Clarity     - Probes To Rephrase

Do not be judgmental  , lest…

Four Basic Steps for Resolving Conflict

Guidelines for Effective Listening During a Conflict

Guidelines for identifying Resistance

Guidelines for Addressing the belief that the project (or action) has been handled Improperly

Guidelines for Addressing the Belief that the project (or action) will fail

Guidelines on How To Minimize Message Distortion 

Guidelines on how to send written messaged to external stakeholders

Guidelines on Effective Writing  

Guidelines for Public Speaking 

Guidelines for Informative Speaking   

Guidelines for Building Effective Persuasive Arguments 

How to Handle Question and Answer Sessions

Guidelines for effective presentations  

Four reasons to share power

How to remain focused and avoid communication noise

Ethical Leadership Principles: Guidelines for Promoting the Most Good for the Most People

Guidelines:  How to manage Teams

How to recognise if Team Building is successful

How to check the level of togetherness in a team

How to remain focused and avoid communication noise

How to avoid the risks of "groupthink"

Guideline How to Empower the employees (and therefore the organization)

Managing by Walking Around - Outline of items to remember so that you can manage your team while "walking around" the work environment  (physical and virtual)    

Why do organisations need to plan and manage their communication?

Guideline:  How to be a mediator

Guideline: How to mange time to deal with overload

 E-mail Etiquette (Netiquette)

10 Tips For project/program purpose letters

Planning a party

The four Ps of good meeting

Do we really need to hold a meeting?

How to promote participation in a meeting

Why Good Meetings Go Bad

How to Participate in a Meeting (that you did not call)

How to attend a Teleconference (Phone, Internet ect.) Meetings

11 common concerns that can affect the group dynamics of people “attending” distance meetings

Guidelines for Reports

Rumor Control

Surviving Office Politics

Adapting Training to Local Conditions

The seven principles of Knowledge Management

What to write and how to write a programe

Clarifying the relationship: Responsibilities of Project Managers and programme Managers

Guideline:  the 10 Project Management Guiding Principles

Key Questions for Establishing the Team Organization

Determining the project manager

Guidelines: How to conduct a useful M&E action

Guideline: Focusing the evaluation design

How to manage programmes for a learning organization that is projectized and employee empowering

Measures to make teams more performing