6 Barriers to Customer Centricity
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Harrin. It would be great to think that project-based organizations and PMOs would jump at the opportunity to improve stakeholder engagement and project communication...
View ArticlePersonal Branding: A powerful management tool
Background I have been working in branding and communications for over 20 years, the last 13 as the Founder of Clock Creative, a strategic B2B Brand and communications company. I am passionate about...
View ArticleUsing Psychological Models & Techniques To Create A Successful Project
When I am called in to help with projects it is nearly always due to people factors e.g. relationships breaking down with one or more stakeholders, a lack of co operation with the project team etc. I...
View ArticlePolitical Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes
Picture this. You’ve just worked for 2 months creating a great product that will improve the lives of thousands of people. You’ve finished working with the development team, who delivered everything on...
View ArticleThe Certainty Conundrum
As a Project Manager, most of your professional life centers on change. Think about it. Projects are all about change. Whether change in process, change in business practices, or new products and...
View ArticleEstimating Risk with Andy Garlick
This week our featured topic is Estimating Risk and our guest expert is Andy Garlick. Andy is the managing director of The Risk Agenda is Andy Garlick. Andy has thirty years’ experience in risk. This...
View ArticleGood Project Management Starts With Influence
Project management at its core is about getting things done. Big things. Unpopular things. Unwieldy things. Being successful relies on the manager’s ability to influence others, and to gain true,...
View ArticleCommunication Model by empoweringLEADERS LLC
You’ve done it. You’ve scored the big meeting you need to push your project through – the key stakeholder, executive, customer conversation… and you know with their approval, your project is going to...
View ArticleMoving From FTE to Contractor
In the UK, according to the 2013 Project Management Benchmark Report from Arras People a third of project management practitioners choose to work as independent contractors rather than working for an...
View ArticleCoaching Project Managers
In a PM context, Coaching is the practice of helping project manages to identify and articulate what their professional challenges, goals and aspirations are and subsequently assist them in achieving...
View ArticleUsing Microsoft Project to Conquer Project and Portfolio Management
Does this feel like your company? Everyone is busy, hard at work on something, but it is hard to see across teams what that something is and even if that something is the right something. When people...
View ArticleDon’t Decide In A Vacuum…Get Clarity!
A number of market forces are making the world a tougher place in which to be successful as a business. Globalization, consumerization of IT, competition from startups and the rise of new technologies...
View ArticleTraditional Project Management Software has Flatlined. It’s time to Evolve.
In life we are taught that if something is broken, we should fix it. So why doesn’t that apply to broken software then? As a project manager you focus on traditional PPM, but doesn’t your work...
View ArticleOneDesk for The Super PM
Project managers wear a lot of different hats, and take on many different roles in an organization. It’s not uncommon to see PMs play a combination of different roles such as the ones of the engineer,...
View ArticleSeven Ways to Turn Conflict-Communication Problems Around
Is conflict creating problems? Conflict destroys produ [...]
View ArticleProfessionalism – why settle for less when it comes to managing projects?
Historically, people have moved into project management later in their careers, either in a planned way or they have found themselves managing projects as part of their role. Project management is now...
View Article2013 #PMChat | Top 10 Project Managers on Twitter
As many of you know, #PMChat is a wonderful community o [...]
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