Modern PMs can learn and apply these techniques to enhance performance and drive successful outcomes. This article explores six essential techniques and six accompanying critical aspects to help you excel with your projects.
Organizations often rely on consulting engagements to help them evolve and transform. How they go about that can be the difference between success and failure.
For consulting to be valuable—to the consultant and the organization—there has to be alignment between what is delivered and what is expected. That starts with having defined success criteria in place.
When you go into an organization cold, you can be seen as an outsider who has high potential to cause problems. With the right preparation and communications points, you can influence critical partners to be on your side.
The most successful consultants support their clients as those clients discover and experiment with new ways of working. That means the consultant must be committed to the client’s success—but not attached to how the client achieves that success.
Consulting is a nuanced discipline, especially in project environments. And it's going to change...but how? This practitioner looks into his crystal ball and offers six predictions.
There are a lot of consultants operating in the project space, but they aren’t all of equal quality. What sets the good ones apart? Here are four qualities you must embrace to excel—and have longevity.
Law firms seeking project management support want more than standardization. They want better communication and transparency among their lawyers and a closer working relationship between the business and its legal teams.
Thinking of becoming a freelance project management consultant? Here are five steps to keep in mind before you make the leap.
It’s essential that organizations select the right approach to project management, and that's a complicated and challenging activity that shouldn't be taken lightly.
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