Simple Tools, Advanced Users
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as […]
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Priorities
Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
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Breaking the myths about language learning as an adult
1. If I just use music and media, may I give up studying grammar and vocabulary and quit my language
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Some sage advise for your first day at a new job.
On our first day, we typically want to “prove ourselves”. We want to show that they made a great decision in hiring us. We feel the need to jump in and be productive right away. Although our intentions are very good, in our zeal to impress, we can even go a little overboard.
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Japan Tragedy – Rapid Change
This is the final post in my series exploring post-quake Japan. While I’ve enjoyed many aspects of working with Japanese
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Japan Tragedy – Impossible Becomes Possible
Here’s another article in this series where I squeeze meaning out of seemingly purposeless tragedy. When I landed in Tokyo
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The Complete Project Manager – Change Management
Project leaders do not like change any more than followers do unless, of course, it is their idea. Change is
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The Complete Project Manager – Conflict Management
Complete project managers are a very special breed of people, requiring a complete set of skills. However, they are not
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Finding time to stay ahead
Today’s busy lifestyle and every-changing technology makes it difficult to stay on top (never mind ahead). If we’re too busy taking care of today’s’ business, how can we find time to prepare for tomorrow? Granted, this opens a can of worms. There are many avenues to this discussion. Today, we’ll try to focus on “how to stay knowledgeable and continue to be considered an expert in my field.”
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What’s the color of the sky in your project world?
-Defining and Driving a realistic metrics strategy – The Risks and Benefits of metrics No matter your role in the
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What do you do when it’s someone else that is STRESSING YOU OUT!!!!
This is a little snippet from my Raleigh presentation at the Total Health Seminar. The Total Health Seminar is packed
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