I have been working a lot of different projects lately in various levels of maturity in their lifecycle. Some are more straight forward and are more about coordination, however others are more impactful and bring with them major change. We often talk about communication in Project Management, the need to get and keep everyone aligned and informed. From here you would help, follow up and sort out any issues that the team is being up. An important thing to remember however is that silence, the team not saying anything, is an answer too. While the saying goes "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", this is usually not true of silence in a project. People who are silent, who are not contributing anything more than being aware of the project around them is usually not good. This behaviour is showing you that they may not understand, may not have bought in or are completely checked out and uninteresting by what is going on. So always remember to make sure you are lis

  We spend so much of our time focused on results and outcomes. Did we win? Did we lose? Was it a success or a failure? How do we measure it? Track it? Compare it? Everyone wants to "succeed" because that is what we feel is the right answer. That is what gets praise from those all around us. It makes us feel valued and safe as it makes us feel like we have earned our place (at work or within our community). Does every step forward have to have the same outcome? At what point is the growth and learning just as (or even more?) valuable than some expected outcome? Our world is changing so quickly these days, more quickly than it probably ever has in the past. We have access to so much information, to so many more people and communities, we are constantly trying to "measure up" to everything around us. We are experiential creatures. Every experience that we have contributes to our knowledge and understanding our our-self and the world we are a part of and influences the