Establishing productive working relationships with your project team is as critical as building the plan, managing risk or reporting to stakeholders. It requires accessibility, adaptability and authenticity. Here are seven principles that can help you help your team members maximize their individual and collective value.
From not-so-smart e-mail addresses to silly formatting, your job application procedure may be keeping you from landing that dream position. Here's how to help make your resume stand out.
When it comes to most project meetings with sponsors and other stakeholders, you have one minute, one page. More than that has to be earned, or you’ll probably lose this audience. Here are 10 simple guidelines for keeping the attention of busy or distracted executives.
The key to great expectations? Manage, manage, manage. If someone is setting you up, know when to step up to the plate--and when to step aside. Here's how to ensure than your Project Management Office hits a homerun every time.
To overcome the conflict and distrust that often arises on cross-functional initiatives, project leaders should schedule one-on-one conversations with individual team members to understand their goals, concerns and solutions as they relate to the project objectives.
Benefits management is easier said than done. When the professionals in charge of large project segments de-scope in order to meet performance objectives, everyone suffers.
If you're looking for a flattering project record, you have to get the right fit. It starts with training PMs in the size and style that suits each one best. Tailor your training program for fabulous results.
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons."