Learn how to engage people on projects and manage stakeholder relationships at work. Get things done, even when your colleagues have different priorities!
It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became…
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Learn how you can better work with virtual teams with these tips pulled from the book Virtual Leadership by Penny Pullan. Find out what I thought of the book and how it can help you ditch unproductive conference calls for truly successful virtual work.
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!
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What are the three characteristics required to lead a project successfully? Find out what Colin Ellis says makes up the Conscious Project Leader model in this book review. It’s a great book!
Dr. Mike Clayton offers some sage advice to new project managers and what they should focus on. Very helpful information for both the new project manager and the seasoned one.
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?
This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management, co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012). As any project manager will know, projects do not exist in a vacuum. They are created from the need to fulfil an organizational objective such as generating more revenue or improving brand awareness. Projects happen because someone –…
Learn how to manage an international project team with these 6 tips. You’ll see how to better appreciate the differences and create a trusting team environment for project work.
Learn more about creating a project team culture in this question and answer session with Colin Ellis.
You might not even know that you are a workplace bully. Here’s what to check in your own behaviour as well of the risks of what might happen if you don’t.
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.
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…