ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Is leadership good and management bad? In Review – Leadership vs. Management, What’s the Difference? There are many who stand on one side or the other of the great divide between leadership and management, demonizing one and praising the other. Leadership. What is leadership? 10 Leadership Skills.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Transformational leadership is a creative style of leadership that focuses on a continued push towards growth and a rejection of complacency. While most great leaders are naturally charismatic, you don’t have to have been born with transformational leadership qualities to develop them. What Is Transformational Leadership?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 1, 2020

Smaller construction projects need construction project management software, and bigger ones definitely require the kind of control that only a PM tool can provide. Construction projects can be big, complex and often unruly, with regulatory issues, safety concerns, equipment rentals, multiple teams and more. ProjectManager.com.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2024

Leadership Communication Interpersonal Project management Stakeholder management What Is a Change Champion Network? Change Order Template A change order is a common document used in construction to capture modifications to the scope of work in a project. This is especially important as a change champion leads by example.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In this scenario, there’s a hospital construction project with multiple stakeholders of varying levels of influence, interest and urgency. Here’s a list of professionals who can benefit from using the salience model. Salience Model Example To better understand how this works, let’s examine a stakeholder salience model example.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Smaller construction projects need construction project management software, and bigger ones definitely require the kind of control that only a PM tool can provide. Construction projects can be big, complex and often unruly, with regulatory issues, safety concerns, equipment rentals, multiple teams and more. ProjectManager.com.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Organizations are continually looking for leadership team that’s experienced in business process management (BPM). It’s commonly used in industries that want to achieve leaner, more agile business models such as manufacturing, construction or healthcare. This helps businesses adapt to change, reduce costs and improve quality.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

. & Judith W Umlas October 23, 2024 THE NEED FOR PROJECT KINDNESS PRACTICES When was the last time you opened a project management textbook that included a section on demonstrating kindness during project management leadership? Have you heard speakers lecturing on project management discussing leadership kindness? Like Judith W.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Risk is always present in construction projects. By definition, construction risk feels unpredictable and damaging, but you can identify and manage them. You may feel you can control risk in your organization and construction management team—but what happens when you’re working with independent contractors?

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership. As we saw in the previous articles about Emotional Intelligence (EQ), leadership is built on top of EQ.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is a discipline that is used across industries as varied as construction, manufacturing and IT to healthcare, professional services and government. Construction Project Manager Construction project managers plan and execute construction projects. Here’s what you can do to get a foothold in this exciting industry.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Her leadership and guidance is of paramount importance during planning and execution. Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. Roland Hoffman.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2021

Here are some different industries that frequently recruit project managers: Construction Government/public sector Healthcare Oil and gas IT Supply chain management Charity work Retail Manufacturing Engineering Human resources. Let’s say you currently work in a construction project management role. A degree can help you bridge the gap.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 28, 2024

At the heart of every successful project is not just a well-crafted plan but a team whose constructive collaboration stems from strong interpersonal connections. Negotiations, presentations, leadership, and management all work better when relationships between the parties are good.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For project professionals, this means two things: AI is an extraordinary tool to automate administrative tasks to free up time for high-value activities, but it can even help enhance your interpersonal skills like collaboration and leadership – we call these “ power skills.”

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

Use a Servant Leadership Approach It helps to try non-traditional philosophies of leadership depending on the makeup of your team. For example, servant leadership feels counterintuitive in that the leader serves their team and organization first rather than their own objectives. Make sure your goals follow those guidelines.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2024

Project cash flow and a cost-benefit analysis should be done and approved by the leadership team of the company before they approve a project. Project Cash Flow Analysis Example To better wrap our heads around project cash flow, let’s imagine a real-life cash flow scenario in construction.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A Construction Project Manager is a specialist working in the construction field. Project Controller: If you want an entry level job in heavy industry like engineering, construction, then look for this job title. It’s similar to the Project Co-ordinator. Document Controller: If paperwork is your thing, this is the job for you!

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 17, 2022

They work in industries as varied as construction to IT. Project directors are responsible for the successful conclusion of the project by providing leadership, strategically managing risk, monitoring finances and making sure that each phase of the project starts and ends on schedule. Top of the line is leadership skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 2, 2023

Many undergraduate degrees in related subjects like engineering, construction and the built environment, digital and business management will offer electives in project management. Let’s say you currently work in a construction project management role. Pretty much every industry requires project managers.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Anything that has a start and a finish, resulting in a product, is a project and its life cycle requires the oversight and leadership of a project manager. A project manager either takes a leadership role with an existing project team or creates one. Leadership skills. Excellent decision-making and leadership skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

A Construction Project Manager is a specialist working in the construction field. Project Controller If you want an entry level job in heavy industry like engineering, construction, then look for this job title. Also known as a Technical Project Manager.)

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 2, 2022

My organization calls these skills ‘power skills’ — like empathy, communication, and collaborative leadership — because they give people the power to connect with others on a human level, allowing for more meaningful and authentic interactions that drive better outcomes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2025

These impediments are often unresolved because of a lack of management/leadership support. Or they didnt know how to address it constructively. In almost all my (freelance) assignments, Ive experienced the expectation towards me of becoming a whistleblower.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. While the projects they work on might be different than construction or manufacturing project managers, technical project managers work on similar day-to-day operations as anyone managing a project. Leadership Skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Yes, the base of respondents for the survey was different – PMI reached people in industries that I expect I did not, like construction and telecoms. We blend a bit of business analysis, leadership theory, change management and project delivery to get the outcome stakeholders deserve. But the difference is quite stark.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 4, 2021

If we look at research from PMI and research done by the Georgia Chapter, waterfall is used in construction but in IT and financial services are using agile and hybrid. Also, millennial PMs are more driven by equality, so working with millennial teams will require a different type of soft skills, like building EQ and leadership.

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Artificial Inteligence PMI 2021 PMO 482

Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

Clear Product Backlog practices (like proper refinement and INVEST principles) empower Developers to challenge the Product Owner constructively. Jocko Willink refers to it as discipline equals freedom, or the dichotomy of leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 27, 2020

Leadership, motivational, negotiating and influencing skills in a matrix environment. Project manager job description for construction. The job description for a project manager in construction covers a lot of things that you’ll see in any role profile. Excellent interpersonal skills. Able to provide guidance to colleagues.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 15, 2017

It is written as a leadership fable and many of the traits of my main character are based on people I know and have worked with. I am currently working on a Master’s Degree Certificate from the US National Defense University and am starting a PhD program in Organizational Leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA, USA.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

It is the phase where you will construct your deliverables and present them to your customer and key stakeholders. Lackluster leadership. To make sure strategies get put into motion, you must make sure you have the talent with the right project leadership skill sets to manage the project. It’s a discipline of its own.”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a good one if you want to work in energy, utilities, construction and engineering as those industries tend to have more need for people with project controls job titles than, say, marketing. Whether you want to work in hospitality or construction, healthcare or finance, most large employers have project management teams.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 12, 2018

It goes back to the 1960s, when project management became a discipline in aerospace, construction and defense industries. During the 1990s, PMI tripled its membership to 90,000 in 120 countries, under the leadership of then president Virgil R. But where did PMI start? What are the roots that uphold this giant in project management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 11, 2021

And I’m personally not worried about that – that will give us much more time to focus on project leadership and stakeholder engagement; the things that computers can’t (yet) do for us. I think they mean 80% of what the textbooks say is the discipline of project management, not what project managers actually do.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

Remember, the market is a man-made construct, and man is an infamously irrational creature. That includes establishing the business justification for the response and the leadership to drive it. The more successful businesses apply this to their leadership roles as well. Then there is the human element.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 15, 2023

Constructive Feedback Of course, there are times when an employee makes a mistake or an issue arises that must be addressed by the employee. In these cases, constructive feedback is critical to noting the problem and offering a solution without alienating the employee to the point that morale erodes and their work suffers.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

For example, in construction industry Project Managers have much more authority in general and a lot of funds are on their disposal. If you liked this article, why not read my book Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice which contains 100 other lessons on project leadership?

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