Learn how to engage people on projects and manage stakeholder relationships at work. Get things done, even when your colleagues have different priorities!
Are you wondering how to build a better relationship with your project sponsor? I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship, a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a project manager’s perspective is a great way to improve how you interact and engage with your project sponsor. Peter Taylor…
Learn about 5 common pitfalls facing project managers, and how you can avoid them tripping you up. Even a tiny mistake on your end could cost the organization a lot of money, or worse still, the entire project, so it’s worth understanding what you can do to stop those issues happening to you.
In this guest article by Nick Nuss, he gives 5 tips on how to lead your manager and navigate your way to success.
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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!
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!
Learn more about the project customer role on projects including who they are, what they do on a project and how to work with them.
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.
A project management soft skill that we can all work on is being assertive at work. Andy Kaufman offers advice on how to do so nicely.
These are the 6 things you need to focus on to keep your stakeholders happy. If you concentrate these items, you’ll address your stakeholders’ needs. The list is based on Emad Aziz’s presentation at a PMI Global Congress event.
A couple of times people have said to me that sharing the project budget with their team members is Not A Good Idea. I don’t know why that is the case – they are stakeholders too. I think it is essential to be transparent about the budget, how it was created and how you, as…
Learn why a network matters as a project management professional and how you can build your own to make sure that you still have people to turn to when your latest assignment comes to an end. Bruce Harpham shares 5 ideas for building a professional network and also talks about how you can serve your community while networking at the same time!