At the 2014 APMP-NCA Mid-Atlantic Conference, Lisa Pafe presented a fun – and relaxing – session on yoga poses adapted to the workplace. Lisa shared that yoga is a great… Continue reading How to empower bid and proposal development using yoga

IT projects today frequently employ an Agile development approach. At the 2014 APMP-NCA Mid-Atlantic Conference, Maryann Lesnick looked at these Agile approaches, and in particular the Scrum model, to answer the… Continue reading Does Agile project management have a place in proposal management?

At the 2014 APMP-NCA Mid-Atlantic Conference, Brenda Crist presented a fun and fast-paced program in which participants served as different members of the bid team to prepare the compliance matrix,… Continue reading How Win Lab can help you improve proposal scores

MS Word has become the industry standard tool for developing proposals—are you getting the most out of the tool to make your proposals look professional? Beth Wingate, aka AppMaven, revealed… Continue reading MS Word tips and tricks for non-desktop publishers

Dear Proposal Doctor, My capture manager and solution architect are tired of the daily standup meeting and want to discontinue it. Others are grumbling as well. In fact, I can’t… Continue reading How to make daily standup meeting more productive

There is nothing more I dread than a Red Team II or even Red Team III. It means the entire bid and proposal team didn’t produce a compliant, strong, and… Continue reading How to avoid problems during a Red Team

Do you know how the government really evaluates proposals? Have you ever wondered what they look for when they read through each offer and what they like and dislike when… Continue reading Seven secrets from government source evaluations you can use to create winning proposals

Dear Proposal Doctor, My team has been locked in a room for the better part of a week with instructions to stay there until they, that is, we, have created… Continue reading The Proposal Doctor explains how to bring proposal solutioning to closure

Dear Proposal Doctor, Senior executives in my organization are constantly inserting material into the proposal that is not called for in the RFP and spending time on proposal components that… Continue reading Ask Proposal Doctor – Creating balance between "required" and "desired"?

Thirty minutes is all the time you need to redirect the writing of a mediocre proposal and put it on a clear path to victory. In this article, I’ll explain… Continue reading Take your proposal from good to great in 30 minutes