Uncertainty is inevitable. What are the keys to managing Uncertainty? There are two main ways to tackle uncertainty: You can either decrease the level of uncertainty or increase flexibility. My …
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5 Ways emotional intelligence builds trust through communication
When leading teams, you want to be seen as a trusted leader. Your team looks to you to provide guidance and support, remove roadblocks, escalate risks, and help ensure success. …
How to evaluate if your business is ready for remote projects
Remote project management is a significant reality for most businesses today. How ready is your business? After identifying all the possible barriers to remote project management and some of the …
3 Tactics remote PMs can use to improve stakeholder engagement
Here are three tactics remote project managers (PMs) can use to improve stakeholder engagement. Have you worked on a project where the team members aren’t participating in meetings, don’t show …
Is your PMO sufficiently data-driven?
Most project management offices (PMOs) offer services to executives seeking to make informed decisions about the best approach to achieve their strategies. The key to effective data-driven PMO decision-making is …
How Leaders Can Lead Other Leaders
Program Management presents unique challenges in leadership as the primary team members are elite leaders. Programs are responsible for managing multiple projects, and operational efforts, to achieve benefits not available …
Creating learning organizations by using program management
Creating learning organizations by using program management. “Projects are one-time efforts in the organizations. As they are finished, all the resources including the people are adjourned. Then what happens to …
Why is it so important to properly assign risk ownership
The topic of risk ownership always prompts lively conversation when discussed with any individual from my classroom to a client’s site. Who should be the actual risk owner? Should it …
Factors that just might block remote project management
There are many factors that can impede remote project management, each of which will be discussed in this article as well as several solutions for each. Productivity degradation Even the …
No time for risk management? Tips on how to factor risk into a Work Breakdown Structure
If you think you don’t have time for risk management, in the video below I discuss how I teach my students to factor risk into a work breakdown structure. I’ve also …