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.
Skills
Learn the key project management skills that you need to lead successful projects at work.
Book Review: Project Management for Humans
In Project Management for Humans, Brett Harned has taken his experience, ideas and good practice and distilled them into a fun, practical book.
Are You Ready For The Social Tech Revolution?
Learn why it’s not important to learn the latest hot social media tools that new entrants are using in their personal lives, but to understand that when these people start working in project teams, they will not only be comfortable with social media tools – they will expect and demand that those tools are used. A great guest contribution about the power of social technologies!
The 7-S Framework: Project Management Remix
When you’ve got a lot to do, ensuring that your project is aligned to your organisational goals becomes even more important – it’s too easy to let slip that strategic alignment that we have heard so much about in the project management press over the past year or so.
Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project
Learn why IT departments risk accidentally (or deliberately) blocking business change and how other teams risk missing the technical implications of what they want to do, such as data security. Technical project teams are key to driving forward business transformation, and only when ‘the business’ works together as one will we see the best benefits being realised from change. How do you think about your IT team?
20 Ways to Celebrate Success at Work
20 easy ways to thank your team for a job well done. From meals out to activities that create shared experiences to bond your team together, there are lots of ideas here to celebrate success at work.
Estimate at Completion: A Complete Guide + Template
Do your stakeholders ask you questions like these? Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? We had a big delay last month. What has that done to the budget? How much will we have spent on this work by the time this project is finished? Given…
Which of These 3 Mistakes Managers Make Do You Make?
These 3 fundamental management mistakes hit everyone at some point in their career. Learn what to look for and how to avoid these behaviours tripping you up. Great tips for keeping your work moving forward and your team happy!
10 Tips for Presenting at Work
Presenting in meetings or to your boss is always a bit nerve-wracking. Here are 10 tips for giving a fantastic work presentation.
7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers
Learn why ethics in project management is important and how to make sure you are working in an ethical way.
How agile is your team (and what you can do about it!)
This is a guest article by David Daly. Did you know, one survey found that the most common reason to adopt agile is to be able to deliver products more quickly? Yet the same survey found that 75% of people did not believe their organisation had a culture that supported agile ways of working. This…
My worst presentation ever (and 3 public speaking tips)
Learn the three most important things for giving presentations, and read about how I failed spectacularly at one of them during my worst presentation ever. Believe me, I do things differently now!