How To Deal With Gossip At Work
Learn how to deal with gossip at work and how we can use it to improve productivity and solve problems.
Teams
Learn how to manage teams and create the environment to help people do their best work.
Availability is Not a Skill Set! 5 Tips for Resource Allocation
Resource allocation is one of the trickier aspects of leading a high-performing project team. Here are my five tips for working out who is best placed to do the work.
How To Motivate Your Project Team
Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I interviewed her to find out more.
7 Secrets to Successful Project Manager/Team Collaboration
7 Secrets to successful project manager and team collaboration by Elisa Cepale of White October.
What is a virtual team?
Learn what makes a team virtual – it’s not what you might think! Location and technology shape how virtual teams come together to do great work.
What To Do When Your Team Doesn’t Believe The Project Schedule
Find out what you can do when your team doesn’t believe the project schedule. You’ll know when this happens because the dates you’ve set go whizzing by…and no one cares. This article will help you and your team get back on track (and back on the same page).
7 Tips for Managing International Project Teams
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.
How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis
Learn more about creating a project team culture in this question and answer session with Colin Ellis.
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…
What Project Managers really need to know about leadership
This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP®, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management,…
Susanne Madsen on Project Leadership [Interview]
When I read Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power of Project Leadership. I was struck by how practical it was. Often we think that leadership is about character and attitude (read my take on the traits of good leaders here) and forget that you can actually practice being a better leader by coaching yourself in the…
Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?
This is a guest post by Andy Trainer of Silicon Beach Training. Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more…