Sara shares a brand new Business Bites on Decision Matrix Analysis: a systematic approach to making complex business decisions. It involves scoring options against predefined criteria and creating a weighted total to determine the best choice.

This week Sara gives us a Business Bite on Gantt Charts and Project Timelines. Project timelines help us  think about dates that are critical. A Gantt chart is typically a horizontal representation of a project with line items and overlapping bars, showing how long each task is going to take. It’s important to know how much work and dependencies need to be done in which order. By using a Gantt chart, effort and duration can be reflected.

This week Sara gives a Business Bite on the DECIDE Model. Originally coined in the healthcare space, this business model is an acronym for activities needed in the decision making process. The DECIDE Model is simple yet designed to help us think about solution creation and executing the solution in mind.

This week Sara gives a Business Bite on Cost of Difficult Behavior or conflict in the workplace. On the surface level, of course there are short term effects of not dealing with challenging behavior. It can be consequential for an organization to ignore this. It’s important to consider the implications that could manifest in the short, medium and long term, as a result of leaving conflict ignored.

This week on the podcast Sara talks about a Data Dictionary. It’s one of the critical tools used when thinking about organizing information. These can be used for a broad range of reasons for example, documenting or structuring data. The strength and structure of a data dictionary leads to success in the future.

Business Continuity Planning is a  subset of risk management planning when thinking about how to keep business operations going. There’s a life cycle when considering  all components of the business. Any organization should have in place a version of business continuity planning, thinking about how it will continue its operations in the event that something occurs. Subscribe to this podcast today and so you never miss an episode!

In this episode we explore Backwards Planning which was first introduced as a framework for curriculum design and education. This technique can be applied with a variety of scenarios, both professionally and personally. Estimating how long something will take can be very challenging but with practice you can determine how accurate you are, for success in the long run! Subscribe to this podcast today and so you never miss an episode!

The RACI Matrix provides structure and clarity when we think about projects and everyone's role involved. Oftentimes the success of our project isn’t measured by looking at milestones. The RACI Matrix provides an immediate overview with clear deliverables for an individual coming into the operation. Subscribe to this podcast today and so you never miss an episode!