296 GID Use a Visual Timeline to Plan Projects

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2014

⏱️ 5 minutes

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It's easier to complete projects with many people if you use a visual timeline to coordinate tasks. Check out Get-It-Done Guy's simple, yet effective strategy

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0:00.0	This is Stevea Robbins.
0:04.3	Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:08.6	Teamwork, I just love teamwork, at least when a team is working well.
0:13.2	The team at Bernice's Green Growing Things plant store is having trouble, however.
0:17.0	They're opening their second location, and somehow everything keeps getting stalled.
0:21.2	Pieces are dropping on the floor, deadlines are getting missed.
0:23.7	No one's quite sure why, but everyone wants it to stop.
0:26.7	Even the Audrey twos are unhappy.
0:28.4	They do not like being repotted.
0:31.1	I spoke with Melvin, and I asked why he wasn't getting his inventory chosen and ordered.
0:35.5	Why should I, he replied.
0:37.2	The inventory doesn't matter until the new space is built out, and Europa is taking care of
0:41.3	that.
0:42.3	I dutifully dropped by Europa's desk.
0:44.4	Hey, Europa, what's up with a space build-out?
0:47.4	Oh, she replied, I'm waiting for Bernice to come up with the blueprints.
0:51.1	When she gets them to me, I'll get started.
0:53.8	Okay, off to Bernice to ask about the blueprints. When she gets them to me, I'll get started. Okay, off to Bernice
0:55.5	to ask about the blueprints. I'm waiting for Melvin to let me know what inventory will need,
1:00.7	so we can design the space appropriately. We wouldn't want the entrance to open right into the
1:05.2	Audrey two feeding pins would be. That could get awkward. Melvin is waiting for Europa. Europa is waiting for Bernice,
1:12.5	and Bernice is waiting for Melvin. This is just like a typical junior high school love life.
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