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How to Project Manage Your Career

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They stand for Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Career Manager (PCM). Your career is one of the most important projects in your life. Consider the amount of time, energy, and attention you devote to projects at work. Consider the amount of time, energy, and attention you devote to projects at work.

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3 Project Management Practices to Improve Your Daily Work

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It’s no secret that I’m passionate about project management. A lot of project management practices have broad application; they can be used for managing many aspects of work, far beyond projects. The daily stand up meeting (sometimes referred to as a “huddle”) is a key element of Scrum project management methodology.

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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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Initiate discussions about upcoming projects or potential challenges, providing solutions or suggestions before they become pressing issues. Familiarize yourself with categories of each vertical of software (some examples would be: project management, CRM, LMS, CMS, social media scheduling, image editing/creation, etc.)

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Renovating Your Home? Think Like a Project Manager to Stay in Budget

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Home renovation projects can be stressful, especially when the outcome rests on your shoulders. Listen to this week’s episode of the rich & REGULAR podcast about frugal house flipping and continue reading below for ways to think like a project manager and help get your renovation off on the right foot. What is a project manager?

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Is Project Management Certification Right for You?

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Project management certification can be a useful tool to advance your career, whether or not you’re a formal project manager or aspire to become one in the future. If you’re not familiar, PMP stands for Project Management Professional, and it’s probably the most well-respected certification in the field of project management.

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Done Is Better Than Perfect and Other Lessons I’m Learning About Procrastination

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Instead, I’ll share my writing process, which goes something like this: Get excited about the topic and dive immediately into research and interviews. Here’s the thing: I only procrastinate on creative projects, such as writing. What I’m learning (and learning, and learning), is that creativity doesn’t strike; it flows.

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How to Speak the Language of Project Management

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Project management is an entire field of study in and of itself. But many people, in many roles, manage projects in an “unofficial” capacity. Even if you have no formal project management training, you still want to be taken seriously in your PM duties. To make that happen, you need to speak the language of project management.