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How to Project Manage Your Career

Eat Your Career

They stand for Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Career Manager (PCM). Your career is one of the most important projects in your life. And I assure you: when you apply a project management mindset and project management strategies to it, you’ll achieve much more!

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

Success

Whether you’re hiring contractors to renovate your home or just doing some weekend DIY projects, learning how to think like a project manager and get the best out of your team is a skill you can improve to help ensure your project goes as smoothly as possible. What is a project manager? Stay organized.

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Practical Project Management

Practically Perfect PA

After speaking at the Assist Conference Heather Dallas from Dallas Development has written a great follow up blog on her popular Project Management for Assistants session… Taking on a project is a great way of raising your visibility and getting you the recognition you deserve. Secondly use the Gap Analysis model.

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Key Steps to Becoming a Better Project Manager

Productivity Bits

The skills that are required of you as a project manager are numerous and various. You are supposed to be able to manage time and schedules well, and only those with developed planning skills can do this successfully. Please grab my free productivity ebook! Thank You! ~ A message from the Productivity Bits Blog Team.

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Five personality traits to benefit any project manager

The Small Business Blog

Leaving aside the variables, the difference may well be the personality traits of the project managers in charge. Here are five personal attributes that might make one project manager and team more successful than the other. One of the early symptoms of project failure is poor communication. Methodical approach.

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A quarter of projects don’t meet their stated goals – but that’s not because of remote working

Workplace Insight

A quarter of all projects do not meet the business goals that their organisations set for them, according to research published by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the 15th edition of its Pulse of the Profession report – The Future of Project Work. These projects account for a quarter of all budget lost.

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Third of businesses say they are more likely to hire contractors this year

Workplace Insight

Lucy Bisset, Director of Robert Walters UK comments: “In the wake of tighter budgets, headcounts being streamlined and other cost-cutting incentives – we’re seeing employers increasingly turning to skills-based temporary hiring.”