Category Archives: Lessons Learned

Project Management Lessons Learned

How Project Managers Can Motivate Team Members to Stay Healthy

In the fast-paced environment of project management, it can be easy to get lost in tasks and deadlines and thus forget to prioritize your personal health. In fact, this is a struggle in the larger world of work, as CNBC reports low levels of employee well-being due to heavy workloads, long hours, and workplace stress. While […]

The Cost of Misrepresentation: Lessons Learned from a Project Manager’s Lack of Self-Awareness

Filed under Leadership, Lessons Learned | Posted by MMeloni

Picture this: a project manager walks into a room to facilitate his first meeting with a new team. After 90 minutes, the meeting ends, but the aftermath is less than desirable. The director of the project office is worried about another bad hire, the technical lead is disappointed in the project manager’s lack of organizational […]

Shifts in Project Management Post COVID-19

By Luke Smith Is there an aspect of work that COVID-19 has not changed? For project managers, likely not. New processes for remote work, changes in company structure and composition, and trends in management strategies overall will define the modern workplace. But project managers can successfully navigate these shifts. With the tools and strategies available […]

Turn Your Disagreeing Team Into A High Performing Team

Why was Joe putting so much effort into the decision-making process and the outcome of that process? He had a high-performing team. This was a team that worked well together and met challenging goals. A team who could argue and then break into laughter. This time the team felt a bit more passionate about the issue at hand. The divide seemed a bit deeper than during any of their previous disagreements

Psychology for Project Managers

Filed under Becoming a PM, Lessons Learned | Posted by PMStudent
psychological project management

A successful project manager is expected to be able to deal with all these aspects of human behaviour, to take them into account in his project management and steer accordingly. Hence, a project manager must not only be well versed in project management methods, economic issues, economic goals and project organisation, but also in psychological aspects of human cooperation within the project environment.