Gifts for Managers [2020 Edition]
What are you buying your team this year? Here are plenty of options for Secret Santa gifts for managers and team members.
Stakeholders
Learn how to engage people on projects and manage stakeholder relationships at work. Get things done, even when your colleagues have different priorities!
6 Ways to Create Effective Working Relationships
These 6 tips will help you create effective working relationships with your colleagues. Learn how to connect with and influence others, creating social capital for long-lasting, trusting relationships at work.
Managing Up: How to Manage Your Boss
One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne at a presentation she gave at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin…
12 Ways to Create A Positive Work Culture
This is a guest post by Anna Erdmanska, PMP. Do you love your job? I assume yes – if you are reading this blog about doing work, you probably are committed to doing your job to the best possible level and that’s because you enjoy it. Projects are about people and the fact that you…
NLP for Project Managers
This is a guest post by Peter Parkes, author of NLP for Project Managers. I recently found myself walking away from a project and used an NLP technique to help identify the root cause of my decision. At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. History of NLP A…
How to Navigate Internal Politics on Projects
Managing stakeholders doesn’t always go to plan. These insights from author Jake Holloway will help you better prepare to work with difficult people on projects. Learn why your team doesn’t always act in the project’s best interest and what you can do about it.
How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders
This is a guest article by Christine Unterhitzenberger. Most project managers will have experienced a situation where they have found a stakeholder to be really difficult. This often causes stress and it’s challenging for project managers to find ways to deal with it. A recent study by Dr Clara Cheung and colleagues found that project…
The 6 Principles of Stakeholder Engagement
Author Louise M. Worsley has 6 principles of stakeholder engagement laid out in her book Stakeholder-led Project Management. Here is my take on them.
What Makes a Brilliant Project Leader?
A brilliant project leader will have solid project management expertise and be able to plan and deliver their projects with confidence and assurance.
Project Management in the Hundred Acre Wood
We’ve been doing 360 degree assessments at work and when I was asked to describe a colleague as a shape, color, animal or fictional character, and to explain my reasoning, I drew a blank. Matching shapes to people is not my strong point. Some of you may know that my Master’s degree is in Children’s…
Decision Making Tools for Group Decisions
Learn how to help your team make decisions as a group. Edoardo Binda Zane shares some great techniques for facilitating decision-making. You can use them with face-to-face teams or virtual teams and you’ll get more buy in if people had a say in the decision.
Why There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Decision
Management – and project management – is a series of small (and sometimes big) decisions. At work recently I had cause to question one of my decisions. I had made a decision that affected other people (as most decisions do). I communicated the decision, replanned accordingly and updated my risk log. I documented the decision…