HR - Silicon Valley Project Management

Narrowing your career choices to your advantage

By Laura Rose / October 11, 2013

Recently I was approached by a professional struggling with what her next career position should be. Her background was in project management, but she could go back to school and get her MBA. She should start something on her own, or she could stay exactly where she is and focus on her PMP certification. She could take her transferable skills and move into operational management for the executive level. She could do this or that or the other. She was continually flip-flopping among all these options that she was stalled.

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How to speed up operations and deliveries.

By Laura Rose / October 9, 2013

With clients expecting orders to be turned around faster than in the past, how can a small business speed up their operations?

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How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”?

By Laura Rose / October 8, 2013

I recently received the following question: How do companies prevent remote workers from feeling “left out”? I’m not a fan

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5 Ways to Get That Raise

By Laura Rose / October 7, 2013

Have this ever happened to you? You get a great performance review; they are very pleased with your work; they say they would like to give you a raise — BUT, due to budget problems, it is not possible at that time. What do you do to succeed?

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Keeping an external job offer alive

By Laura Rose / August 7, 2013

It’s usually bad news when your job offer is put on hold. Sometimes the offer disappears. So what strategies can you employ to make sure you keep that offer alive even if the employer has to suspend plans for bringing you on board?

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Keeping an internal job offer alive

By Laura Rose / August 5, 2013

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Taking Responsibility: what dog training can teach us about management

By Michele Taipale / July 22, 2013

After many years of traversing the globe as a strategy consultant, family and health issues dictated a travel respite

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Onboarding: Critical Success Factor (and mostly overlooked!)

By Ron Lichty / July 17, 2013

It wasn’t a surprise to me to find, for two years in a row, that our Study of Product Team

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How can a career vision help me with my career

By Laura Rose / June 14, 2013

Steve Wynkoop and I were talking a lot about designing and managing our professional careers on a weekly interview on SSWUG.org. This episode was about what steps to change your position in the your current company.

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What if two product managers disagree on something and can only agree to disagree?

By Laura Rose / June 13, 2013

I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals.

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How to do things that scare us.

By Laura Rose / June 12, 2013

There are things in our professional careers that naturally scare us, but are required for advancement and continued growth. We are normally afraid of places we haven’t been before, things we haven’t tried before or subject matter that we know nothing about. If fear is a sign that we are pushing our envelop, then conquering that fear is a sign of real personal and professional growth.
So, how do we gather enough courage to take that next step?

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