Communications Tools: The Project Banner
A project banner can be a great way to communicate about your project that goes beyond email, newsletters and presentations.
Communications
Learn how to manage project communications and create a single version of the truth while keeping everyone on the same page.
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Project Management Communication Tools [Book Review]
The communication tools in this Project Management Communication Tools by William Dow and Bruce Taylor are applicable across various projects and most industries.
Why Clear Communication is Vital to Successful Project Management
Good and clear communication between a project manager and their team is a key component on whether a project is successful or not. Check out this handy infographic from Brandeis University that shows the importance of clear communication.
Why Projects Need Stories
Find out why you should be telling stories at work. Learn how they can engage your team more effectively and how stories are very similar to status reporting.
10 Ways to Present your Projects to Stakeholders
Find out how to communicate your project to stakeholders with these 10 tips and ideas. Better communication results in better engagement and ultimately more successful outucomes.
Are Your Project Communications Lost in Translation?
Pete Bennett of the UK’s leading business and professional translation company London Translations examines the challenges businesses must overcome to avoid ‘lost in translation’ moments as a new generation joins Britain’s workforce.
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Reinventing Communication [Book review]
“If we spend 90 percent of our time on communication, it makes sense to have a method to figure out if we are spending out time wisely and, if we are not, what we can do to improve communication,” writes Mark Phillips in his book, Reinventing Communication. That sounds sensible, so I was keen to…
15 Communication Hacks to try in 2015
Want to get ahead with your project communications this year? Here are 15 hacks to try in the coming months. 1. Use a milestone tracker The milestone tracker I use is a simple Excel spreadsheet. It lists the milestones in one column, organised by project phase. It also includes the name of the person responsible,…
7 Steps To A Good Project Communications Plan
Find out how to create a project communications plan in 7 easy steps. A communications plan helps you get the message across about your project, so it is an important part of making sure your project is successful. Proper communications planning isn’t hard to do and it is best to take a thought-through, strategic approach.
The future of social communications on projects
Social communications form a large part of life outside the office, and the connected project manager needs to incorporate those ways of out-of-the-office communications into working practices today. Many stakeholders already use publicly available, consumer-led social communication tools to manage their personal networks. In our drive to be easy to do business with, it is…
Managing your personal brand: an interview with Dr Andrew Makar
Today I’m interviewing Dr Andrew Makar, IT programme manager, blogger and author of Project Management Interview Questions Made Easy, about managing your personal brand at work and building a professional project management profile. Andy, why is it important to have a professional project management profile? Would you hire an individual dressed up in a bed…
An introduction to communications plans
Does your project have a communications plan? It’s often something that less experienced project managers forget to do, although even experienced project managers can find themselves half way through a project without a clear communications approach. The purpose of a communications plan is to define all the people or groups who have an interest in…