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Six Things All Project Managers Should Do

Six Things All Project Managers Should Do

1. Learn to Communicate at All Levels. Communication is key to a successful project completion, and learning how to communicate comfortably with executives, team members, and shareholders is considered the top-needed skill for project managers. PMs need to be able to...

7 Habits of Highly Funny Project Managers

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 teaching...

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Top 10 Signs You're a Project Manager 10. Becoming tired of having a social life beyond work. 9.   Spending hours planning and re-planning a Friday night out. 8.   Thinking Rommel would have been more effective if he'd used a Gantt chart. 7.   Using so much jargon...

Is your leadership team a team of leaders or a group of managers?

Is your leadership team a team of leaders or a group of managers?

This sounds like a dumb question but when I look back on the number of executive and leadership teams we’ve worked with in organisations it’s clear to me that in many instances the members of those teams were technically competent, and nice people, but not great...

The Best 6 Project Management Secrets You Need to Know

The Best 6 Project Management Secrets You Need to Know

While there have been many and many books written on the subject of project management, there is no sure-fire procedure or equation to get it right. Of course, that also explains why there are so many books on it. Well, we’ll cut to the chase and lay out six project...

70% of Executives not engaged; a PMO wake-up call

70% of Executives not engaged; a PMO wake-up call

My brain just melted. Or exploded. Or both. According to recent PMI research, 70% of the time, senior executives are not engaged in the project prioritization process. Now this just blows my little brain to pieces and here’s why. Why this statistic blows my mind...

3 Reasons to Invest in Project Prioritization

3 Reasons to Invest in Project Prioritization

Organizations that invest in strategic prioritization deliver 40% more value. This seems like reason enough to invest in improving the project prioritization process, yet many organizations don't realize that their current process is broken; it's evolved over time, it...

Top 5 predictions for project management in 2016

Top 5 predictions for project management in 2016

Emergence of CPOs.We think 2016 is the year of that the CPO position – or Chief Project Officer – begins to get real traction. In the late 1980's many technical experts and business leaders were suggesting that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) would be the next...

THE CHRISTMAS RULE FOR PROJECT PLANNING

THE CHRISTMAS RULE FOR PROJECT PLANNING

Christmas is special, in part, because it only happens once a year. Building on that concept, Mark Horstman, co-founder of Manager Tools, coined the “Christmas rule”: “If you do it rarely, and it's important, you're likely to underperform.” Christmas is a major...

5 Reasons You Need LinkedIn

5 Reasons You Need LinkedIn

Some experts say that if you aren’t on LinkedIn, you don’t exist. This could be true, but it does seem a little extreme. My existence as a professional is void because I don’t have a LinkedIn account? As it turns out, there are many reasons why career experts and...

Harness Storytelling to Catapult Your Career

It was a Thursday night at 5pm. As I drove to pick up my 16-month old son from day care, I spoke to a client who was in a bit of a pickle. He needed help with an urgent sales proposal. It needed to be presented to a bigwig, potential client at lunchtime the next day....

What has the PMO ever done for us?

In the 1979 movie, The Life of Brian, the Monty Python crew all asked the question, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” It seems that PMOs are getting the same treatment. According to recent research by ESI, 72% of PMOs are being called into question, mostly by...