Every new project leader faces unique challenges, but some struggles are more common than others. Insights from our community and results form a poll provide some key takeaways that we can all learn from.
Candidates seeking promotion will often times come face to face with the “job experience paradox,” which can be difficult terrain to navigate for the first time. To help, let's delve into the five facets of an exemplary leadership legacy.
During the seventh-inning stretch in baseball, fans in the stadium are encouraged to stand up, stretch and sing. It's a ritual project managers should introduce with their teams. (Singing optional...)
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We start the new decade with a bang as we present the 13th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition! Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, PMXPO provides an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and broaden your perspective on project management. This year’s show is headlined by keynote speaker Cara Brookins, a bestselling author who rebuilt her broken family by building her own house watching “how-to” videos on YouTube.
Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.
The PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2019 explores the impact of rapidly changing technologies on the project management profession across industries. Participants will gain an understanding of how to better position themselves for growth and to identify talent for their project teams.
Burnout drains individuals and disrupts entire projects. In this high-impact webinar, designed for project professionals worldwide, we’ll decode the early stages of burnout and explore how stress silently sabotages focus, productivity, and team dynamics.
Discover how Cultural Intelligence (CQ) boosts trust, collaboration, and leadership in global project management. Gain tools to lead across cultures.
Human-centric leadership increasingly emphasizes empathy, emotional intelligence, and building inclusive, psychologically safe environments. Also, Human-first leadership in a tech-driven world has many challenges. The webinar will discuss in detail how leaders can use BI, AI, and EI as their BAE for transformation and project success effectively and efficiently in a balanced way.
This webinar will help you untangle why you are upset and how to get back to your center, so you can better manage the “what to do” or “how to do” challenge you are facing. Those challenges range from difficult conversations, changing jobs, opening a business, or just exploring what drives you to react to certain people and circumstances.
UPDATED TEMPLATE! The project management roles and responsibilities template is designed to consider the project management support that is required in managing and supporting a project. The template reflects the role and contributions of the project manager, as well as Project Management Office (PMO) and methodology support roles, where those exist.
If you have friction in your sponsor relationships, there are guidelines you should consider—and then decide where you and your sponsor have the most room to improve. To help, check out this assessment template to identify areas to improve the sponsor/PM partnership health. Use in conjunction with the article 12 Guidelines to Build a Sustainable Sponsor/PM Partnership.
The purpose of this tool is to conduct a self-introspection on attributes that are essential for a PMO leadership role. Self-identify your current level of the listed key PMO leadership attributes, completing the "Current," "Aspirations" and "Prioritization" columns. Use in conjunction with the upcoming on-demand webinar Evolution of a PMO Leader - Lessons from Matthew McConaughey.
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Building strong connections with your internal team and external clients is the secret sauce that makes everything better. Here are five reasons why building those relationships is not just a “nice to have,” but a “must have” in project management.
From toddler tantrums to project budgets, our two worlds demand precision, adaptability, and endless negotiation. Here’s how one practitioner's dual roles overlap—and how lessons from one world often help her navigate the other.
Securing credibility is job one when it comes to your persuasiveness. Credibility must be earned and reinforced; it’s rarely just granted. But new technologies may be making it even harder.
Connecting with your audience is a crucial driver of your persuasiveness. Your ability to read the room and understand others is imperative. But with AI and social media, some potential bad habits can contribute to persuasion atrophy.
It's not easy, but it's essential. How can you improve your problem-solving capacity? These ideas combine the familiar with the unusual. Choose one practice from this list and aim to implement it this month.
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.
Can we afford to wait 134 years for women to be on equal footing? This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Accelerate Action.” We can all take steps to speed up the rate of change.
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.
Reflecting on the successful projects he has led over the past few decades, this practitioner has identified several common principles. How many of them do you follow?
This past year has been a transformative one in project management—full of innovation, changing work environments, and a renewed focus on value creation. Project managers are in the middle, driving strategic outcomes while also paying close attention to operational deliveries.
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