Learn how to manage teams and create the environment to help people do their best work.
Here’s my must-read books for collaboration on projects with some great pointers on the skills, process and experience of engaging people and working together, whether your job is to lead or to follow. Twelve excellent books to add to your project management bookshelf.
Learn how to deal with gossip at work and how we can use it to improve productivity and solve problems.
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.
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 and team collaboration by Elisa Cepale of White October.
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.
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).
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.
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…
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,…
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…