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It’s a great honor to be asked to mentor someone, and whether that arrangement comes about as a result of an informal discussion or a formal corporate scheme, you should take the commitment to be a mentor seriously. Are you getting ready to meet your mentor? I have a complete guide to questions to ask a mentor just for you. It’s also a good career opportunity for you – working with a more junior project manager can give you a different insight into project management topics and they are likely t
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By Alan Zucker I authored my first project management article ten years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to teaching. Writing those early articles was challenging. Reducing complex ideas into writing is a skill requiring practice and discipline. I did not anticipate having so much to say.
By Alan Zucker I authored my first project management article ten years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to teaching. Writing those early articles was challenging. Reducing complex ideas into writing is a skill requiring practice and discipline. I did not anticipate having so much to say.
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Do your projects over-run, go over budget, or fail to delight your clients? You can get rapid Project Management results, with my top ten PM tools. The post Top 10 Tools to Help You with Better Project Management appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
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Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring
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Finding the right recruitment software really matters. Today’s recruiters are often short on time and struggle to assess, interview, and hire candidates quickly and efficiently. Most rely on applicant tracking systems and testing tools to fill skills gaps and monitor important hiring KPIs. But if only finding the right ATS were easy. The market today is cluttered and full of what often feels like pretty much the same old solutions.
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By Kenneth Steiness, Raphael Santos, and Nate Auchter DOWNLOAD: Power BI Template – Project for the web With Microsoft Project for the web being ‘rolled into the new Planner’ as premium plans, you get some great new features like ‘My Work’ and ‘Copilot’ for AI to mention just a few. And, for reporting, you can dust off the free Power BI template (originally built for Project for the web) to report on the premium plans in the new Planner to get a view of your portfolio of projects and resources.
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Most of us know that you cannot guarantee outcomes or control circumstances in complex, unpredictable environments. Even though we might know this in our rational brain, most of us struggle with a desire for control and guarantees. It shows up us anxiety, worry, frustration, hyper-productivity , and stress. And this of course affects how we are leading and the decisions we make.
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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali
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