Lessons Learned From 2020 To Boost Your Resilience

Bruce is the founder of ProjectManagementHacks.com, a resource for growing IT project managers.

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Did you find 2020 difficult? It was challenging for most of us in various ways, from dealing with health economic worries along with missed social connections with friends and family.

Yet, there is an opportunity to learn from the crisis and its aftermath as we move into the future. While predicting the future is dangerous, it’s virtually guaranteed more global problems will continue to change our world, such as climate change. Therefore, it’s vital to develop our resilience so we can better respond to the next crisis.

Resilience means “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” As project managers, resilience matters because change is constant in our projects. You might even face some misfortune as well. As those problems emerge, it is helpful to have a toolbox of perspectives and habits to bounce back.

Lessons Learned to Enhance Resilience
Take the following as inspiration to boost your resilience in 2021 and beyond…

1. Long-term remote work can work for many of us. Like many of you, I moved to full-time remote work (or working from home) in March 2020. It took a while to adjust my habits to the new mode. I’ve learned to use new tools like Microsoft Teams. I’ve also enjoyed how much time and money I’ve saved thanks to the absence of commuting.

Remote work isn’t a good fit for …

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