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Critical skills are those that apply across industries, across roles, and in any size organization; emotional intelligence (“EQ”) is a critical skill. Project Management, a skill that fits within any industry, most roles, and any size organization, has wide professional applications. As such, emotional intelligence as a skill has great significance for any Project Manager […]

Project Management

Speaking Project Management for Non-Project Managers

Megan Bell

What all professionals need, those with formal Project Management (PM) titles and those without, is a keen understanding of what makes a business function and how that business fits into the relevant industry. That understanding is known as “business acumen.” Consider this scenario:

Project Management, Training and Development

Creating Future Leaders: Psychological Safety

Kiron Bondale

A study by HBR.org has indirectly found that companies with high levels of Psychological Safety have more successful leaders in the pipeline, suggesting to some experts a causal relationship between these two phenomena and leaving us wondering when we will see this change enacted on all levels within organizations as it is an important factor

Project Management

Leading Virtual Stand Up Meetings

Megan Bell

The Daily Stand-Up or Stand-Up is baked into Agile, with the team gathering every day for a focused review of tasks. The daily team meeting is by no means limited to those formally practicing an Agile methodology, project teams across industries hold them. A time to connect with each other, to refocus on the immediate

Project Management

How Are You Planning for Psychological Safety Within Your Team?

Kiron Bondale

I’ve delivered a number of presentations this year on the importance of building psychological safety within project teams and the role which project managers play. During these presentations I’m frequently asked the question “How do I go about creating it?“. While there are existing models such as Timothy R. Clark’s progressive four stage model, a

Project Management

Project Manager in a Matrix World

Megan Bell

How a business is structured can impact efficiencies, and Project Managers need a deep understanding of the organizational structure to successfully realize the best project outcomes. A common model is the “matrixed” organization, in which employees have both departmental and functional managers. In a matrixed organizational structure, an employee has a primary manager plus one

Agile, Project Management

It Is Harder to Sell Stakeholders When Times Get Tough!

Kiron Bondale

While there are many cases where we might have to use our powers of influence and persuasion to sell stakeholders on supporting what we feel is the right thing, I thought I’d share three specific examples which might be a much harder sell than usual.

Professional Development, Project Management

Project Manager for 2021: Manager and Leader

Megan Bell

Regardless of your company or industry, 2020 changed lives and careers. For Project Managers, the challenges of guiding a team through work processes are now heavily impacted by changes in team member’s personal environment in addition to changes in the business. To navigate 2021, Project Managers must balance management and leadership skills, and know when

Agile, Project Management

Think Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Agile Transformations

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

A question that I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start agile transformations within a company? Given a choice, I’d prefer to use the cop-out (but correct) answer “It depends”, but otherwise I usually respond that you’d want to do both a top-down and bottom-up approach simultaneously. Download the

Continuing Education, Project Management, Training and Development

Take Note: Note Taking for Success

Megan Bell

After deciding to invest in your professional development, you can maximize your investment by setting yourself up for successful comprehension of the course content by improving how you take notes during your class. Your personal note-taking style, the format in which you take notes and what you do with those notes, can have a direct