Your path to business agility
Change management is not just an important methodology in project management, it is essential. While other popular management methodologies, such as Agile, Waterfall or PRINCE2 all have their own merits and are perfectly applicable to the right situations, change management can and should be applied across all organizations. The ability to adapt to new technology...
Sports and fashion are not always regarded as the best proving grounds for business models and new approaches, but sometimes they can be the perfect petri dish for innovation and disruption. The belief is that talent always wins, but in many cases, teams and companies can overcome a deficiency with an emphasis on ingenuity and...
The lack of transparency across many businesses means that major problems can go unnoticed and undealt with for a long time. On a project level this could be solved by getting better project management software, but on a national level it requires a much broader solution. The gender pay gap is just one such issue...
If you want to change a habit that gets in your way, get ready to battle your own brain. The mind that creates good habits is the same one that thwarts them. Imagine an automatic response that you want to change. Say, for instance, obsessively checking email throughout the workday instead of setting aside blocks...
Knowing how to instill employee loyalty in your team is vital for a project to succeed. It means being able to keep your team together and focused on tasks, as well as inspiring confidence in leadership decisions and a willingness to give their maximum effort to see the project through. Employee loyalty also means that,...
For project managers, keeping a tight-knit team focused on the tasks at hand and pulling in the same direction is basically their job description. One thing that can completely destroy this team unity, however, is negative workplace behavior. This can range from making team members mildly uncomfortable to harassment and bullying, so for a start...
Emails, in their relatively short lifespan, have become the most important method of communication in many workplaces, even more so than the original method, i.e. talking to someone. Not only do they dominate communication, they also make up one of the single biggest working actions that many people do in their day. Results from a...
A project proposal outline serves many purposes. It’s a common document that project managers may be asked to create to state the case for a project and give stakeholders an idea of what they will be getting involved in. Knowing how to create a project proposal successfully will also allow a PM to champion the...
By necessity or design, a growing number of organizations are embracing the concept of business agile. Not necessarily as a project management methodology, but as way to enable flexibility and rapid decision-making. At least, they’re trying to. Unfortunately, many organizations are experiencing an unintended and unwelcome consequence on their journey to the business agility promised...
Despite the continued uncertainty and political stasis brought about by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit as it is known, the country’s economy is bucking all trends and going from strength to strength, with one of the biggest signifiers of this being the fact that unemployment in the UK is at all-time...
