Project Management News
Women making a huge difference.
Dame Sarah Gilbert, co-creator of the AstraZeneca vaccine receives standing ovation at Wimbledon Women across the globe have led during the past 18 months, and if we needed another reminder of it, the centre court of Wimbledon proved it last night. Dame Sarah Gilbert...
Female employees fear pregnancy prejudice
Expectant moms say they deliberately over-compensate because co-workers see a pregnancy bump and stop taking them seriously. A new report has revealed that expectant moms are under extra stress at work because they fear co-workers aren’t taking them seriously – many...
Exhausted from WFH? Here is how to manage it
A lack of separation between work and home, and a never-ending pandemic has affected the best of us. Some call it burnout, others call it ‘languishing’, which means you’re spent but not quite empty. But exhaustion by any other name is just as tiring, so it’s best to...
Why are women underrepresented in the C-suite?
HR remains the only function with genuine diversity. Today is International Women’s Day, which means it’s time to take a good hard look at how we’re progressing in terms of gender equity. The good news: there are even more females taking up lead roles in HR, legal and...
How to create an inclusive workplace
Do your employees feel seen and heard at work? How do you ensure that they do? There are a slew of tools you can tap on to push your diversity and inclusion agenda. According to your resources and organisation’s bandwidth, you can bank on things from formal policies...
‘We’re at a critical point for gender diversity’
International Women’s Day is always an important moment to reflect on the gender inequality that still exists all over the world. But 2021 marks a critical year in the fight for progress. COVID-19 has had a disproportionately negative impact on women and in Parliament...
Types of Project Managers; Which one are you?
If you get in my way, I'll kill you! - ideal project manager If you get in my way, you'll kill me! - somewhat less than ideal project manager If I get in my way, I'll kill you! - somewhat misguided project manager If I get in your way, I'll kill you! - A tough...
7 Habits of Highly Funny Project Managers
Why are there people who are funnier than the rest of us? What makes them different? Oh sure, some people are just born funny. Some just have a natural way of saying things that’s funny. Some may look funny while others talk funny. After twenty plus years of...
75% of Cross-Functional Teams are Dysfunctional
When I was in the midst of researching what caused cross-functional teams to succeed — and finding that many of them failed — I discovered a deeply dysfunctional development project in a huge multinational IT company. The company had invested $100 million in the...
How to Keep Support for Your Project from Evaporating
Even years later, I still consider it my biggest professional failure: a company-wide employee training program that I’d developed and put through several rounds of vetting was shot down at the last minute. It was a painful surprise, and it changed the way I’ve sought...
Two Digital Myths That Trip Up The C-Suite
Most executives I talk to understand very well that digital technologies are permeating nearly every function of nearly every business. And yet many fall prey to two harmful myths. Myth #1: You will die without a digital strategy. This myth is generally accompanied by...
The Dirty Little Secret of Project Management
Why don’t more project managers sound an alarm when they’re going to blow past their deadlines? Because most of them have no earthly idea when they’ll finish the job. They don’t even think it’s possible to know. Too many variables. Too much that’s out of their...