Do you find yourself at times being a broadcaster when there’s ambiguity? Here are a few questions to help you identify when you’re exhibiting broadcaster traits...and steps you can take to improve.
Your job is no longer to produce reports, it’s to ensure the right people receive the right information at the right time, in the right way. Embrace your role as an information designer.
Wishing an ambiguous situation away is not leading; it’s allowing for things to happen to you instead of influencing them. Are you an avoider? This series helps you identify your strengths so you can be better at dealing with ambiguity.
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The purpose of this Project Outline template is to clearly explain the reason for starting the project and ensure alignment among stakeholders. It acts as a high-level communication tool to share essential information with both leadership and project teams, helping to initiate the project smoothly—especially when team members are spread across different locations.
The monthly status report template has been designed to be a comprehensive review of project progress. It is intended to provide a detailed understanding of the project, what has occurred to date, and its trajectory in moving forward.
UPDATED TEMPLATE! The communications plan provides a comprehensive view of how your project will communicate with the various audiences that it supports. Use this template and the sample matrix to schedule and assign communication responsibilities.
Use this one-slide presentation in conjunction with the article 8 Ways to Be a Critical Persuader and with the Persuasion Atrophy series.
This template includes important checklist items that need to be covered when visiting a site in order to define deliverables, as well as assess budget and timeline estimations to use on any audio visual installation project (specifically for presentation systems in classrooms and auditoriums).
Modern projects don't suffer from a lack of communication. They suffer from a lack of visibility. The challenge for project managers isn't tracking more work. It's seeing the work that matters before it becomes a surprise.
Invisible work is project activity that happens outside the formal systems designed to manage it. The challenge for today's project managers isn't simply tracking more work. It's gaining visibility into where work is actually happening.
Project managers are no stranger to feedback. Some of it is positive, some more constructive. But how can we take what we hear and actually do something about it? Keep these seven tips in mind.
An unexpected problem at an office led to one of the most valuable skills a project manager can develop: knowing when to stop negotiating among competing interests and start reframing the problem itself.
Active listening and empathy won’t show up on your PMP certification. They won’t appear in a project charter or stakeholder matrix. But they are the difference between a project that delivers outputs and a project that creates lasting change.
Question: I am happy that my employer is with a company that is expanding overseas at a time when many organizations are doing layoffs or folding altogether. But traditional/waterfall practices have been how we arrange our projects, and I am concerned with the fact that we will be bringing IT features to our production products. I think usually they are more agile teams who work with IT, right? With the language, culture, pressures of a new branch, and time zones to consider…how can I possibly set up a way to manage our international projects?
Executives want evidence that strategy is advancing. How do you reposition yourself as a value creator? It is less about changing what you do day to day, and more about changing how you frame and report what you are doing.
Creating a positive first impression is about preparation, intentionality, and basic human decency. Here are seven things to do—and a few this practitioner learned not to do—when entering a new project relationship.
Building on the business acumen foundations of financial literacy, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision-making, this article turns to four dimensions of business acumen that are often underappreciated yet equally transformative.
When you don’t respond to a request, you leave the person guessing. Consider the following alternatives to ignoring the message so they aren't left with crickets.
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