What happens when a life project doesn't go as smoothly as planed? This project manager found out when he bought and built a home—and then got "the call" from developers. What followed was a lesson in risk and communication.
Your ability to effectively choreograph your messaging is critical to how persuasive you are. But watch out for some traps that are easy to fall into—and can damage the relationship with your audience.
As project managers, it’s incumbent on us to learn about AI and social media first-hand and weave them into what we do. But it's time to sound a warning bell about both technologies and how they can inhibit development of a crucial business skill: persuasion.
This article equips project managers with the knowledge and tools to harness the power of data visualization. It explores essential techniques, emphasizing their practical applications in project management.
Where finger-waggers cross the line is not in their passion for certain views, but in how they treat those with different views. Here are seven dangers of finger-wagging, and how it can affect business.
As you address disagreements or conflict with and among others, explicitly decide on what your value, ego and relationship factor goals are as you navigate to a meaningful resolution.
Project managers must be action oriented and task focused, and must build and train their project team to follow these principles. These PM fundamentals are good reminders on how to keep your project on track.
Your job as a project manager is to help your customer’s overall success. To help you along in your customer-centric journey, here are four tips to consider.
Most of you have experience working with a chronic canceler. Or even worse, you yourself may be a chronic canceler: sending those last-minute declines because something else came up. Here's why you need to change your behavior.
A PM who is great at driving clarity attacks ambiguity and holds the right person accountable, even if that person is a higher-up exec. Here are six areas to improve en route to becoming a Clarity PM.
"Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking."