3 Ways Project Managers Can Anticipate, Avoid and Mitigate Problems
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Are there any career risks that a person should never take?
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How to get someone to do something that isn’t important to them
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How to speed up operations and deliveries.
With clients expecting orders to be turned around faster than in the past, how can a small business speed up their operations?
You can’t get your money, unless you ask for it
4 weeks after I had completed his taxes for him, I asked this friend-first-removed if he had received his refund yet. He confessed that he has the forms signed, but he has not mailed them in yet.
“Well — you know you can’t get your money, until you mail the forms in….”
It’s the same in life and work. It’s more difficult to get what you really want if you don’t explicitly ask for it and then follow-through with your plan.
Keeping an external job offer alive
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?
Keeping an internal job offer alive
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?
How can a career vision help me with my career
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.
Relationships? Who needs them?
Sticking with my basics theme, how do you feel about building relationships? Does it scare you or does it excite you? Do you feel like its unnecessary or extremely important? Maybe the better question is…HOW? Well if you ask me, …
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Managing Projects Overseas – Part III – Simplify the Process
Managing Projects Overseas – Part III – Simplify the Process We just spoke of global perspective of managing projects overseas, followed with how PMs can minimize culture gaps in these situations. We now conclude with a value-based sequel relating to …
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Pro and Con list to make better decisions.
Most everyone is familiar with Pro and Con lists to help make a decision. Often times the Pro and Con List does very little to clarify the decision – because – well – the reason you are creating the Pro/Con list is because it was a ‘close call’ to begin with. We don’t go to the trouble of making a Pro and Con list on ‘no-brainers’. Often times the pro and cons are pretty equal – making the decision still difficult. Our mistake is that we stop at this point. We don’t take the next step to reduce the impact of the “Cons”.
Accelerating Team Development
A discussion forum in an online management, leadership, and team building course asks: Knowing that teams need to go through each stage from forming to performing, how do you accelerate the process? Consider what role personal, team, and organizational values …
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Unhappy workers staying on the job – Is this good or bad?
My name is Laura Rose ([email protected]), Business and Life Coach specializing in time management, project management and work life balance strategies. As a business coach, I recently received the following question: Unhappy workers staying on the job – Is this …
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If you can drive, you can understand project managing.
This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. In my GoTo Academy: Soft Skill Tools for the GoTo Professional continuous online coaching series, I go …
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Replay with additional proactive techniques
With some additional proactive (Quadrant 2 preparation — sign up for the online coaching sessions for more information on this technique), you can perform even better. You get into the office early because you need to review the results of the …
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Replay with Time-boxing and Parking Lot method.
Time-boxing is a method which allows you to do everything that you want to do without the above pitfall. You get into the office early because you need to review the results of the overnight test run, and mail in …
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Want more time? Think inside the box.
In my GoTo Academy: Tools for the GoTo Guy and Gal continuous online coaching series, I go into Time-boxing and the use of Parking Lot methods in detail. If you are interested in more training in these areas, please signup …
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It’s not what you say (Part II)
We’ve heard saying like “It’s not what you say, but how you say it”; “Actions speak louder than words”; “It’s not what you way, but how you feel when you say it.” After an incident this past week, I totally agree with all of those statements more than ever. Why?
Stakeholder Management Tools
Nope. There’s just no way around it. You are going to have to work with people. Even if you are a “technical project manager” buried in the bowels of a data center or focused on software projects or on enterprise …
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Done or Done Done?
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration. In software, a piece of code may pass unit testing, but fail when integrated with other blocks. The code may …
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