Get Your Projects Fit with The Lazy Project Manager
Find out how to health check your projects in this interview with Peter Taylor (The Lazy Project Manager).
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The Social Project Manager [Interview]
Learn more about social project management and how collaboration on projects is affected by the social tools we have available to us. I interview Peter Taylor, otherwise known as The Lazy Project Manager, to understand how we can balance collaboration with the centralised governance required in order to deliver successful projects in today’s workplace.
How to Lead Effective Virtual Teams [Tips & Book Review]
Leading Effective Virtual Teams is one of the harder books I have had to review, but one of the easiest to read. It’s very practical, and the format makes it possible to dip in to get some advice on what’s bothering your team wherever you are in the project management life cycle. Read the whole review here.
How to Build Trust in Virtual Teams [Book Review & Tips]
Trust matters because it helps build a resilient project team. Trust helps get things done. Trusted team members not only do only what is asked, but what the project needs them to do, because they know that the project manager will trust their decisions and actions. Trust is a shortcut to better working relationships and…
How Organizations Can Set up New Project Leaders for Success
Understand and learn what new project leaders and managers need to be successful with these tips for project leader success.
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…
How to Create A Checklist to Speed Up Tasks in 3 Easy Steps
Here’s how to create a checklist in 3 easy steps – then you can use it to speed up repetitive tasks. And you can use this technique in your personal life as well as at work!
The Best Meeting Minutes Transcription Software: An Independent Test and Review
I reviewed three different tools to find the best meeting minute transcription software that you can use in your in person meetings.
Best Leadership Books for Project Managers
What are the best leadership books for project managers? Well, ask 10 leaders and you’ll probably get 10 different lists. Here’s mine! These are books I have read over the years that I turn to time and time again for inspiration and because I know the strategies in them work. You can watch me talk…
Project Leadership In Uncertain Environments with Carole Osterweil
It seems like more and more of the projects we’re working on as project managers are tricky in non-conventional ways. The environment is shifting as we’re trying to do the work. Or the political situation changes. Suddenly what you thought you were delivering is actually not that after all. It’s not just me feeling like…
The PMI-SP Certification & uCertify Training Course Review
A review of the uCertify PMI-SP® training course.
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.