Your path to business agility
Few aspects of enterprise project management are as important, or as frustrating, as tracking the time employees and contractors spend on their work. Accurate time tracking is essential for determining budgets, estimating task durations, calculating project return on investment and many other key business processes. Unfortunately, team members often view time tracking as an annoyance,...
How engaged are your employees? Are they putting in the extra effort to get their jobs done right, or are they simply doing the minimum to remain employed? Are supervisors giving employees the tools they need to solve challenges in their work? Do your team members feel that their managers have a clear vision for...
In less than a decade, enterprise collaboration has evolved from a vaguely-defined concept into a fundamental part of global business. Today, enterprise collaborative work management is an essential capability for organizations in every industry, allowing project managers to guide and engage even the largest and most geographically dispersed project teams. While collaboration in business can...
Did you ever get the feeling that something on your project wasn’t right, even when your schedule and budget seemed to be on track? Have you noticed that team members seem frustrated or out of touch, or that you need to make seemingly simple requests multiple times before anyone bothers to act on them? Experienced...
The holidays are a hectic time for everybody, and project managers are no exception. In fact, managing a team during the holiday season can be especially challenging for a PM. After all, in addition to trying to juggle your own holiday preparations and job responsibilities, you also have to make sure that your team members...
Workplace collaboration is not a new concept, but it’s gained new prominence in recent years, as modern cloud-based business tools like Planview AdaptiveWork have reinvented the way we work. While organizations once struggled to connect employees in different departments, business units or office locations, employees can now collaborate in real time around the globe. Companies...
For most people, workplace relationships are one of the most important aspects of career satisfaction. In fact, a recent study claims that positive relationships are the key to flourishing at work. We all want to feel a personal connection with our colleagues, and to feel that we can look to our co-workers for support and...
It’s that time of year again when millions of people around the world pledge to do all kinds of positive things over the next 12 months, such as eat more kale and grapefruit, do yoga 2 hours a day, spend more time with family, reduce their carbon footprint, focus more on experiences and less on...
Hang on Millennials and hold on Generation Z. There’s another demographic that seems to be taking over the workplace landscape, except their influence and impact isn’t profound; it’s profane. We’re talking about disengaged employees (AKA zombies) who can mutate a high-performance workforce into a frightening zombie squad. However, before dealing with the zombies who roam...
Whether you work on projects, manage projects or manage people, setting goals is an essential part of your job. An employee’s goals define his or her role within the organization and demonstrate the employee’s value to senior leaders. At the project level, goals define the purpose of each project and determine how success and failure...
