The Leader - May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019
Escape Manor For Professionals
Join "Escape Manor For Professionals" co-creator, Jay Gosselin, to our Saturday seminar on June 1st to partake in an exciting game of "Escape Manor" while learning how the format was created to showcase participant's leadership skills and what meaning is behind the various aspects of the game. And learn how you can adapt some of the techniques to bring fun into your workplace leadership events. For more information or to register, click here.
Accelerate your Project Management Career
Join Phil Keast as he delivers a light-hearted but informative Lunch seminar on Wednesday, May 29th. His presentation will offer strategies, tips, and tangible actions that you can take to be more successful in your career — with success being defined as more interesting work, recognition, promotion, and more money. Learn how to "Accelerate your Project Management Career". For more information or to register, click here.
8 habits of highly effective managers
Forbes
I was interviewing for a management role with four direct reports. While I love developing people, I think the rest of the job could be as fun as learning Mandarin (which is widely known as the hardest language to learn). One night I sent a text to a friend asking how I would know if I’d enjoy it? His response, “You don’t.”
5 ways project managers can respond to project changes
TechRepublic
Say you're an application programmer, and your app specifications are modified day after day. Your pride in workmanship and belief in the app will diminish. Likewise, if you're an end user or a trainer, your confidence in a project will wane if systems and apps are continuously changing.
Exploring traditions: Traditional project management
G2 Crowd
No matter how many cousins get married and have children, you can still find us packed into the same house on Thanksgiving morning. We like knowing how things work. We like the comfort that comes with familiarity. Those engaging in traditional project management practices might feel the same way. Instead of utilizing a more complex project management approach, project managers with simpler objectives have the option of using a strategy that is tried and true.
9 out-of-the-box project management tips for tech teams
Forbes
Project management is an essential part of getting things done and achieving business goals. Through careful planning and executing, team members can collaborate to complete specific tasks or projects. However, with tech development, there are many unique challenges that “standard” task management strategies may not be able to help with.
What's the secret behind a successful project: Project managers or project processes?
TechRepublic
Companies often celebrate successful projects and anguish over failed ones without always knowing, which was the key factor in the outcome: the project manager (PM) or the process. How do you decipher what causes a project to succeed or fail?
12 time management mistakes that set you up for failure
Entrepreneur
Time management is all the rage these days, and it’s easy to understand why. Most people, and particularly entrepreneurs, are working themselves to the bone. It’s been found that 70 per cent of us work beyond “office hours” and into the weekends. We’re working from bed, while eating dinner and when on vacation. This hurts our relationships, health and productivity.
