The Incremental Model of Decision Making: What You Need to Know
Get the low-down on the incremental model of decision making – what it is, how to use it, and when to employ it for your next project.
Delivering a project
How to get work done and execute your plan.
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Tips for Before, During & After Meetings
Managing successful meetings is not a new subject, but neither is it a waste of time to refresh ourselves about how best to manage meetings. Below, Guillermo Solis has some suggestions to bear in mind before, during and after meetings, when we are in charge of the meeting as a project manager. These are based…
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What George Orwell Can Teach Us About Project Management
“What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about.” George Orwell George Orwell’s essay, Politics and the English Language, is the last essay in his wonderful Penguin Book called Why I Write. In the essay, he castigates writers of his time for using ready-made phrases…
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6 Ways to Manage Projects Like a Nordic
Learn how the Nordics can inspire you to be more organised as a project manager. These top tips will help you stay on top of your teams.
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7 Awesome Meeting Habits That Will Make You Money
Find out how to run awesome meetings with these habits that will see you boost productivity and focus your meetings on what’s really important.
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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option
Our expectation for consistent, immediate and high-quality service is at a level never before seen in human history. But can we ever truly live up to these incredibly high standards? Can we ever truly score “100%”?
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5 Tips for Better Decision Making (With Process)
These 5 tips will help you make better decisions at work. Find out how to come to the right conclusion by learning how to make great decisions every time.
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Are you really managing information overload?
At the social media webinar I gave for the PMI LEAD Community of Practice one of the main themes coming out of the comments and questions from participants was how to deal with the extra information channels that social media tools offer. People generally seem quite worried about how to handle information overload, to the…
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How To Recover troubled programs (part 2)
Are you seeing any of the problems faced by troubled programs? If so, you need a recovery plan to get your program back on track. Here’s the 5 step ESI process for getting out of trouble — I saw a webinar hosted by them and these are my notes. The whole approach assumes you have…
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How To Recover troubled programmes (part 1)
There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs…
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The 5 Skills You Need For Managing Complex Projects
Tera Simon spoke at Digital Project Management Summit 2016 about complex projects and the 5 skills you need to manage them.
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5 Things Better Than Conference Calls
I spend a lot of time on conference calls, especially now I am lucky enough to work from home. If I’m completely honest, I know how to use my mute button without even looking at the phone. It’s useful for blowing my nose and slurping tea but also for making sure other people can’t hear…
