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The Bad Apple Effect: How Negativity Can Sabotage Teams’ Performance

Scrum.org

The Bad Apple Effect can deeply sabotage a teams performance and development. Even with talented, capable players, their respective teams often underperformed and struggled to progress in their development. Still, these negative attitudes were affecting the whole team's morale and teamwork.

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Powering Success: The Impact of Project Management in the Energy Industry

The IIL Blog

By Jorgelina Bross-Puglisi By 2050 renewable energy could account for 90% of the world’s electricity and effective project management will be key to achieving this ambitious goal. The energy and utilities industry is facing one of the most significant transitions in its history. of investment wasted for every $1 billion spent.

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How to delegate the right way: 6 tips for managers

Planio

Not only does it require careful team management, but also handing over control of important tasks — something that’s not always easy, especially when your project’s success is on the line. Delegation is the process of reassigning work to other team members because it’s more relevant to their skills, priorities, or workload.

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How to Identify Different Work Styles for Better Productivity

ProjectManager.com

As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive. Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Every team needs a leader. No problem.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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PMOs Shifting from Watchdogs to Strategic Enablers

Project Risk Coach

PMOs are shifting from being project watchdogs to orchestrating conversations between senior leaders, business unit heads, product owners, and project teams. Identify the most significant strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of project management in the organization. PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition, p.214. Ask for Feedback!

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How to Be a Productive Project Manager: 7 Tips

Project Risk Coach

Imagine yourself as a more productive project manager, one with greater capacity and energy to complete each day’s tasks. Susan, the project manager, had a gnawing feeling that the network team might fall behind schedule on a high profile project. I find exercise and sleep save me time by giving me greater energy. Guess what?