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Credibility
There are all kinds of skills, qualities, and talents you need to be a successful project manager, but credibility is the single most important quality every project manager must possess. You certainly...
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Powerful Questions
You can use questions to change peoples thinking, move their thinking to the ‘right answer’, or elicit information. But questions are not neutral Asking ‘leading questions’ when you are seeking...
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Integrity is the key to delivering bad news successfully
Integrity is the result of a combination of virtues, including the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, supported by ‘soundness’ and completeness in what you do and say. You have...
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Gamification – A new way of working
Gamification is discussed in Chapter 7 of my book Advising Upwards: A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders. This post takes a closer look at the topic from a more...
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The strategic management of projects
One of the clearest messages emerging from a range of sources is that ‘project management’ as defined by the PMBOK® Guide and other similar documents is simply not enough! As Professor Peter Morris...
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Are Sponsors over worked and under effective?
The Institute of Project Management (Ireland) has published a survey is based on self-reported information from their course based on nine major position descriptions/levels in reporting the data...
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If you screw-up, own-up
One of the traits that strong leaders and credible advisers have is the willingness to ‘own up’ to mistakes they’ve made. No one operating effectively as a project or program manager, or for that...
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Making Projects Work: Effective Stakeholder and Communication Management
My third book, Making Projects Work is now generally available in hardback and Kindle editions. Making Projects Work: Effective Stakeholder and Communication Management focuses on the skills needed by...
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How to succeed as a PM in 2016
Projects are done by people for people and through the medium of social media, people power is growing. Successful project managers know this and use it to their advantage; they create a team culture...
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Project Risk Management – how reliable is old data
One of the key underpinnings of risk management is reliable data to base probabilistic estimates of what may happen in the future. The importance of understanding the reliability of the data being...
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