If you want to annoy your new boss and co-workers, walk in and assume that you know what is best. Let them know that their way is the old way. Or perhaps get to know their organizational culture and then make suggestions.
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The Best Way to Face Challenges? Together.
Why is that some teams allow the challenges they face to become obstacles, while others band together and grow stronger? Support from their leaders and from one another is a contributing factor.
Do YOU Recognize YOUR Team?
Mary Carol had not only missed an opportunity to strengthen a bond with a team member, she had weakened that bond. She could tell that Sal was disappointed. After all, he had taken the time to know who she was. Did she think that because she was the boss, she did not have to know her team? Did she think that because they worked across the globe that she did not have to get to know them?
Four Quality Management Basics
Understand the basic components of quality management and then build on them.
How to Handle a Project Management Crisis
Every project manager faces at least one crisis in his or her career. Follow these tips and come out ahead.
Prepare for the Unknown: AKA Risk Management
Accept the fact that your project plans will change. Risks that become a reality are a type of change that you will experience. Move forward confidently knowing that you will have a plan.
Trust Makes ALL the Difference
It was my honor to be included with so many of the people I truly admire in Project Leadership, a new eBook sponsored by AtTask. This free eBook is an excellent resource. I am learning so much from the contributors and I think you will too. To see what I am talking about check it […]
5 Project Lessons to Take into 2014
Todays posting is brought to all of us by Access Group. There is some information here which can be useful to many of us. This is not an official endorsement for any specific software. Enjoy- Margaret Meloni, pmStudent Community Leader. Access Group is a rapidly-growing and innovative provider of cutting-edge project management software which helps […]
3 Tips to Advance your PM Career
Just recently I was asked to come up with 3 tips to help project managers just like you advance their careers. The goal was to review tips from various sources and then compile them into one article. Of course you want to know how to be a project manager and learn what project managers do. […]
Effective Project Management: The Prince 2 Principles
PRINCE2 (an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a de facto process-based method for effective project management. The methodology encompasses the management, control and organization of a project.? Prince2 is based on 7 principles, 7 themes and 7 processes in which each process is defined by main input and output, together with specific objectives […]
