LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I just finished the last chapter of Susanne Madsen’s piece on The Power of Project Leadership (2nd edition). I closed her exceptional book completely inspired and itching to get a copy in the hands of both LiquidPlanner employees and our customers. So, how can Project Managers overcome these odds? These statistics are bleak.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

As an example, different skills may be needed for strategic projects that demand radical rather than incremental changes from how the firm conducts business. Some of the new skills needed for strategic projects include design thinking, rapid prototype development, crowd storming, market research, brainstorming and change management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Soft skills, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence : whatever you call it, these are crucial and stakeholder management and communication come out top time and time again. Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. Let’s jump in. Find her on Twitter.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 26, 2023

When people sense a change in any one of the SCARF factors, it can activate an avoidance response. The bigger the change the stronger the response! Using SCARF as a manager Understanding how the brain works adds new perspectives to many good leadership practices. Take it further Find out more why Carole wrote the book.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These individuals do more than simply adapt to change; they anticipate and shape it, offering insights that resonate across industries and methodologies. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

These tend to be transformative programs, delivering organizational or cultural change such as a restructure or fundamentally changing the operating principles of the business (going paperless, for example). While it helps in many ways to have such overt senior support, it does push resistance to change underground!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The People domain covers the soft(er) skills required to be a good project manager. It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects. Domain I: People.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 5, 2021

For example, the automation of an existing business process might involve an adaptive approach for the business process and the supporting system whereas the change management deliverables such as end user training materials might be produced in a predictive manner.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work , Gregory P. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. Shea and Cassie A. People will slip back into their old ways. Workplace design.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Peter speaking at the APM Rethinking Leadership conference. This is a guest post by Peter Parkes, author of NLP for Project Managers. At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. Leadership styles. Peter’s book. History of NLP. The project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 1, 2018

But reading about what you should do to break into project management isn’t the same as hearing real stories of people who took that leap and got that project management job. Below, I share 5 stories from my book, Project Manager. There are some myths about project management. Elise Stevens. Elise Stevens.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

There are many women globally leading initiatives to shine a spotlight on women, including one of the largest initiatives launched on Twitter in 2017 by Dr Kirstin Ferguson called #CelebratingWomen , which resulted in a book in 2018 called Woman Kind. Related: Advice for Women in Project Management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2024

Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. A cost-effective and comprehensive self-paced training.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Let’s look at what a program manager does all day. You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. You’ll see these skills on a program manager job description – and if you don’t you should be asking why! Change Management. Stakeholder Engagement.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In his groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence from 1995, Daniel Goleman explains that emotional intelligence is about twice as important as cognitive ability for positions at every level. Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer and consultant.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leadership – ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. Successful project managers are those that embrace the mantle of leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Project management is stressful. There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Do you need some help working out how project management fits? Book a call. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. I can support you with that.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers ). How to boost project productivity. 4 Drivers for team engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 5, 2016

He has a book out soon – I’m looking forward to it! You'll also like: National Poetry Day: Haiku for Project Managers These 3 haiku sum up the daily dilemmas facing project managers. Join me to talk about Social Media for Project Managers I’m really looking forward to next week.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

You can see a list of all their books in one place here. I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. Soft skills, interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence – whatever you call it, these are crucial and stakeholder management and communication come out top time and time again.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in project portfolio management , process improvement , change leadership , and stakeholder management. Athena currently leads the delivery of organizational priorities through portfolio management frameworks and best practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Let’s look at what a program manager does all day. You’ll receive broad direction from your leadership team. These could be project managers or PMO colleagues. You’ll see these skills on a program manager job description – and if you don’t you should be asking why! Change Management. Stakeholder Engagement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 14, 2018

The first part of my book sets out the four essentials of team leadership, and a great project leader must constantly address each of these and keep them in balance: focus on individuals, build and share a clear plan, foster a true sense of team spirit, and communicate relentlessly – and well. What kind of leadership is this?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2018

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! Risk management will make you a better project manager , so it’s worth spending some time thinking about how to address this issue. A bright cover for Mike’s own book, Risk Happens! Dr Mike Clayton. How To Do Away with Group Think at Work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These tend to be transformative programmes, delivering organisational or cultural change such as a restructure or fundamentally changing the operating principles of the business (going paperless, for example). While it helps in many ways to have such overt senior support, it does push resistance to change underground!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By 1980, those efforts were standardized into project management procedures and approaches. By 1996, PMI produced the first Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). During the 1990s, PMI tripled its membership to 90,000 in 120 countries, under the leadership of then president Virgil R. PMI Founders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Domain I: People The People domain covers the soft(er) skills required to be a good project manager. It’s all the stuff you know to do anyway, because it’s part of what it means to operate in a leadership role in a modern organization, whether you are working on iterative, predictive or hybrid projects.

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nTask

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The Book carries a time-based theme throughout, and the main focus is on the little things that can result in very substantial results. The Book carries a time-based theme throughout, and the main focus is on the little things that can result in very substantial results. Let’s see what those lessons are for one minute manager: .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

He looks at, amongst other things, using automation to streamline processes and looks at the adoption that we are trying to implement as part of a project, and what is the desired change, and takes a much wider and holistic view of human behaviour at work. He gave the example of changing from MS Word to Google Docs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Whole books (like this one, my favourite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers). How to boost project productivity. But it isn’t that simple.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 23, 2021

If you liked this article, why not pick up my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership? It’s available on Amazon.com and on Amazon.ca as well as a number of other online book stores).

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The IIL Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

This resilience-driven approach ensures project robustness and adaptability in the face of changing external factors. Prolonged Collaboration and Engaging Leadership Styles Projects in 2024 span extended durations and involve dispersed and at times global teams, necessitating sustained collaboration and adaptive leadership styles.

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The Strategic Project Manager

APRIL 26, 2022

John Kotter’s 8 step Change Management Model is a strong framework that has been used to implement change in many organizations. This post examines the model, its advantages and disadvantages, and its value to strategists and project managers. What Is the John Kotter Change Management Model?

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This resilience-driven approach ensures project robustness and adaptability in the face of changing external factors. Prolonged Collaboration and Engaging Leadership Styles: Projects in 2024 span extended durations and involve dispersed and at times global teams, necessitating sustained collaboration and adaptive leadership styles.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This means that project managers will also stay relevant in the age of AI if they focus on the core skills of project management, namely: Leadership, Communication (verbal & non-verbal), Empathy, Emotional intelligence, and Negotiation [6]. is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in the Aircraft Industry.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 6, 2022

That’s how to become a project manager in a nutshell, but in this article I’ll explain three routes to entering the profession and share the stories from 5 people who chose project management as their career. Below, I share 5 stories from my book, Project Manager. There are some myths about project management.

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