What Makes a Brilliant Project Leader?
A brilliant project leader will have solid project management expertise and be able to plan and deliver their projects with confidence and assurance.
Author: Elizabeth Harrin
Elizabeth Harrin is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management in the UK. She holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University, and several project management certifications including APM PMQ. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004 and has worked extensively in project delivery for over 20 years.
Elizabeth is also the founder of the Project Management Rebels community, a mentoring group for professionals. She's written several books for project managers including Managing Multiple Projects.
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7 Most Important Leadership Behaviors for Female Project Managers
While I was researching my book, Customer-Centric Project Management, I came across a piece of research in the Project Management Journal about women’s leadership skills. ‘Project Management Leadership Behaviors and Frequency of Use by Female Project Managers’ by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP, looks at what women think are the most important leadership characteristics and then whether…
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Managing All The Things Webinar
In this webinar for PMI Phoenix Chapter, I talk about how to reframe your work and stay on top of your To Do list with creative strategies for managing everything — even when it feels like everything is a priority. Project managers are busier than ever. We need smart tactics for workload management and different…
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10 Practical Time Management Tips For When Everything is a Priority
Learn 10 new time management tips to help you stay organised and focused even when everything is a priority at work. These ideas help me be productive and avoid burnout. Find out how to create a schedule that works, plan your tasks and squeeze every last moment out of your time so you have more of it for relaxing, family, and leisure!
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Change Management in Projects + 5 Tools to do it
In this article, we’ll look at what is different about change management now, how change management is defined, and why it is worth investing your time and effort into doing change management.
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How to maintain a positive attitude about work
Learn how to maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project.
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10 Tips to Save on Project Shipping Costs
If you need to buy things for your project, you know that shipping takes time and money. And delivery costs are often ‘forgotten’ in project budgets.
Thankfully, there’s a ton of methods that you can use to save on these costs. Take a look
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Resources for Remote Work (2020)
Here are some free and paid resources that you might find useful to help you keep your projects and teams moving forward, wherever you find yourself based over the coming weeks.
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Get Your Projects Fit with The Lazy Project Manager
Find out how to health check your projects in this interview with Peter Taylor (The Lazy Project Manager).
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The Social Project Manager [Interview]
Learn more about social project management and how collaboration on projects is affected by the social tools we have available to us. I interview Peter Taylor, otherwise known as The Lazy Project Manager, to understand how we can balance collaboration with the centralised governance required in order to deliver successful projects in today’s workplace.
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GanttPRO Review + Mini Tutorial
Check out my GanttPRO review to find out if this Gantt chart software is right for you. Also includes a mini tutorial.
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How to Lead Effective Virtual Teams [Tips & Book Review]
Leading Effective Virtual Teams is one of the harder books I have had to review, but one of the easiest to read. It’s very practical, and the format makes it possible to dip in to get some advice on what’s bothering your team wherever you are in the project management life cycle. Read the whole review here.
