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When it comes to leadership, they're two sides of the same coin.
As a manager, time, money and process are vital elements to track while controlling a desired business outcome, from projects to company operations. Yet, if you depend on people to create that outcome and are only tracking these elements, you are making decisions based on incomplete and sometimes biased information.
u2 Leadership Software consists of intelligent plug-in modules to your existing project management software
Unequaled in user support and enterprise ease, the u2 Leadership software uses “intelligence” algorithms that adapt to the needs of a project team using state-of-the-art techniques, including “Average Performance Range and Index” (APRI)analysis, and then provides critical, timely, common sense solutions to the most complex implementation issues. Read more about "intelligent" project management software.
A distinctive feature of u2 software system is that it incorporates a proven methodology and simple metrics to consistently provide optimal project management plans. With a push of a button, u2 shows a month by month statistic on task optimization and then guides the user through potential solutions for those tasks that require reshaping. This software is considered to be the most advanced, state-of-the-art project management and operations management application in the world today.
The u2 Leadership Software is even extending the bounds of business science with the introduction to Earned Value Balanced Scorecards. It can't get any simpler, valuable and affordable. Yet, u2 offers even more value. It takes supporting a manager to the next level. It's putting common sense into a management system.
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Your technology is not tracking everything you need – and there’s a better way
Our simple add-in technology to Microsoft Project and Excel cuts through common misconceptions about tracking time spent, money consumed and processes followed, and supports you in managing people as the key assets in achieving business success.
Is your current software providing you with detailed information about the value your people offer or does it only focus on the amount of money they're spending? It's your people's initiative, dedication and drive that create your business results. Converting your current project software into a technology that supports the maintenance of these three elements gives you essential knowledge to nail deadlines with greater ease and efficiency.
Nailing deadlines requires your ability to cut through misconceptions about your workforce's ability to do good work
Misconception #1: “Tracking time and money gives you visibility and control.”
Measuring and maintaining how well your workforce can consistently: (1) do good work, (2) be good followers and (3) be adequately rewarded for their actions gives you visibility and control. Tracking time and money tells you if people were able to, in the past, do good work, be good followers and be adequately rewarded. It’s like saying, “When the Titanic hit the iceberg, that’s when the Captain was really in control.” It’s certainly important to know when you’ve hit the icebergs, but isn’t it more important to know how to miss them, even the little ones? Our software provides you the missing information that tells you how to avoid potential time, money and process issues, especially when working with changing requirements or new opportunities. And when issues cannot be avoided, our software provides you with reliable solutions to optimize your workforce according to the three measurements discussed above. That’s the visibility and control you really need.
Misconception #2: “Process makes a difference.”
It’s people following or determining the process that make a difference. Consider that a process establishes a level of quality or efficiency when followed by implementers. Yet, how do you calibrate the process in terms of the people following it? For example, are the processes you’re using optimized to fully utilize the experience and strengths of your implementers to maximize their productivity? How are you currently calibrating this optimization factor? Do your processes take full advantage of the implementer’s drive to do good work? Is this also calibrated? Utilizing strengths and maintaining drive become the real building blocks in getting people to do good work. Our software not only provides you with automatic access to this calibration information, it also increases your control in maintaining these building blocks to reliably meet deadlines with greater ease.
Misconception #3: “People don’t want to change.”
It’s not change people resist, but the negative effects that can be caused by that change. Hand out a wanted raise or promotion and see how fast change is accepted. The first step to making change easily within an organization is to know what inspires people. The only thing certain in the business world is that change will happen and as a manager, you will need to get your team to adapt. Using our software gives you key information about your team’s potential reaction to a specific organizational change and what they will need to feel more secure. With this information, our technology facilitates a simple communication technique with your group, providing you the knowledge to lead the team’s transition with greater ease and support.
Misconception #4: “People don’t like to report progress.”
People like to report their good work. But, they are concerned about how their progress, especially when behind, is interpreted. Tracking time and money indicates how you interpret good work from bad. That’s an ongoing dynamic, and time and money need to be tracked consistently. So, what do you do? Our software translates time and money metrics into learning and growth measurements with the same level of objectivity and accuracy. These learning and growth measurements are then translated into methods to improve the self-esteem, confidence and worth of the individual doing the tracking. This approach provides people with the incentive to track and report their progress in order to: (1) be adequately acknowledged or (2) improve their quality of life. Either reason establishes a measurable win-win system for all involved. When your team measurably benefits by providing you with reliable, timely data (good or bad), your ability to control an outcome dramatically improves.
Welcome to a simple add-in software technology that gives you the knowledge to nail deadlines and eliminate stress in your life
If you want the greatest amount of control and visibility in achieving results, our breakthrough add-in software, called “u2,” is exactly in alignment with your needs. Our u2 add-in converts your current project software into a leadership tool designed to compliment any project or operations methodology currently in practice. It begins with reducing your administrative hassles and documentation burdens so you can have more time to focus on people. It then gets your group positively excited about supporting your goals, even when it involves drastic change, overwhelming challenges or difficult feedback regarding performance.
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