ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to set up leadership key performance indicators (KPIs) to do just that. In Review – Leadership KPIs. Signs of Successful Leadership. Two of the main signs that your leadership skills are having positive results are: A culture of achievement and performance.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. “It is your ability to manage relationships and lead the team to success through your vision and engagement. Keep going for success.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Leadership is a combination of innate and learned traits. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you three key leadership building activities that will help you become a better leader. In Review – Leadership Building Activities. In Review – Leadership Building Activities. These are the building blocks of true leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

I could write my book without his case study (and I did). It's a game-changing book! Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. Not talking about problems Surprises are bad. Project sponsors don't like bad news either.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. Section Three covers management and the tricky topic of trust-based leadership. Virtual teams are very much the norm now.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 8, 2022

In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But this is not something I’ve run across frequently.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2019

Early September a new book will be added to the Professional Scrum Series : Agile Leadership Toolkit - by Peter Koning. Traditional management and leadership practices were developed to manage work, to build the process, and to provide the intelligence for work to be done. Agile leadership is the future.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 1, 2022

Long has spoonfeeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2020

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2020 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2019

But we do know that when it comes to business, leadership, personal productivity and work-life balance, a slew of seriously helpful self-help books has recently been published that can help you make 2019 your best year yet. If you start your new year by reading just one of these books, you’ll be starting out on the right foot.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

We discussed creating a project team culture. Elizabeth: This week in the Project Management Cafe Facebook group we’ve been talking about team culture and various different bits and pieces, and I know this is something that you’re kind of an expert in, because you’ve been chipping in and answering the questions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Most organisations don’t really provide the necessary ammo apart from a few onboarding formalities and cursory ‘knowledge transfers’ More often than not, hardworking and talented people with stellar individual contributions are given leadership roles. Modern organisations and the leadership gap.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2022

In this article you will learn: Why enabling Scrum Teams with UX Design capabilities is important. Why introducing UX capabilities to Scrum team is frequently hard. What is the job of an UX Leader in a product development organization. How to use a UX Design maturity level to coach teams to deliver better outcomes. . ??

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book. Leadership.

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

Leadership : ethical, authentic leadership is what helps get work done and set you apart from your peers. And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Long has spoon-feeding solutions and off-the-shelf feature descriptions prevailed in many development teams. Although some issues might have been fixed, I rarely see the full potential of a Scrum Team being achieved. Going all-in on predefined features fails to capitalize on hidden ideas in the brains of team members.

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Project Risk Coach

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Bad project managers create project cultures filled with stress, confusion, and little progress. Let’s run through a list of eight things that all bad project managers have in common. Some project managers keep their team members in meeting prison, and often, the meetings are things that could have been handled in other ways.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2023

Embracing self-management can be challenging for teams transitioning to Scrum. Taking direction from a manager or team leader is easier in some ways—just do what you’re told to do. Most often, though, teams moving to self-management find it infinitely more satisfying. That includes leadership. Let’s look at how.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Communicating information to all key stakeholders, sponsors and team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Book a call. There is no career development. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful. If you set it up right, the project should pretty much run itself.

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Susanne Madsen

JANUARY 5, 2020

What better time to consider how you can continue to develop as a project leader and sharpen your saw. The feedback you received shouldn't be seen as negative but as an opportunity to grow and continue to develop. To continue to develop your project leadership skills, have a look through the eight topics below.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Technical Review Energy 122

Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In his best-selling book  Drive: The Surprising Truth of What Motivates Us , Dan Pink explains three attributes (Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose) that people want to feel satisfied and motivated at work. It is a great book, but we can do more. Outline the problem, let the team tell you how it intends to solve it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

1: Book Virtual Meetings on a Schedule. Sofia Hess says: Virtual meetings are essential for geographically dispersed teams. This is incredibly important for our team. 3: Understand The Strengths of Your Team. In turn, my team developed a deeper understanding of their strengths. 2: Delegate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You won’t find anything in PRINCE2 about people management or the soft skills of project management, although these are covered in other related books. PRINCE2 is the same: there is no point in sticking rigidly to the workflow in the book if it takes you three times as long to get anything done. And what are the weak points?

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I could write my book without his case study. Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. And I told him so.

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Team Leadership itself is not hard. And, if this is your first opportunity to lead a project team, you want to do well. And, if this is your first opportunity to lead a project team, you want to do well. In this article, I want to hone down to the four essentials of project team leadership.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Energy 2014 68

The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

You don’t do my type of work (project management, PMO leadership at a global level, keynote speaking, consultancy and training) without clocking up some pretty impressive airmiles and flight status. It hasn’t all been bad. New keynote topics developed and ready (just call please). We know that now!

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2019

That might take certain tools and special ways of leading a team or company. We don’t yet need to create another new term called “agile leadership” as if it’s something special. Even the ideas behind servant leadership are thousands of years old. Your CEO, the pilot, better know how to fly or you’re going to have a bad day.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. Yep, that’s correct: the PMBOK ® Guide isn’t the only reference book you need to look at. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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Proofhub

AUGUST 18, 2021

7 Crucial Things To Know When Managing Web Development Projects Source: [link] Whether you’re a marketer, designer or web developer, client projects are part of your everyday life. However, more often than not, it’s not the lack of skill or knowledge that leads to failure, but poor management of those projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Risk Management Engineering 358