Best Practices for Managing Incoming Work Requests

Project managers wear many hats and they are expected to perform as a jack-of-all-trades. Efficiently fielding incoming work requests is what makes somebody an excellent team leader. To manage a project efficiently, the project manager needs to be able to prioritize work as it flows in. Project management best practices (and what creates the foundation...

How You Know You’re Spending Too Much Time on Excel

Ever get the feeling that you’re spending way too much of your time working on Excel? There can be a myriad of other facets to your professional life but whenever you think of a day at work it always seems to consist of jumping from one spreadsheet to another. To the point that when people...

10 Praktiken hocheffektiver Teammitglieder

I hope this blog is occasionally read by team members as well as project managers. Maybe you’re a team leader trying to figure out your project manager. Maybe you have a special interest in team dynamics and team management. Maybe you’re just nosy. Maybe your project manager was so inspired by one of my posts...

Ressourcenmanagement & Was das für Ihr Team bedeutet

Your resources are whatever is needed to complete a project, including people, finances, technology, physical space and time. Resource management is thus planning the usage of those resources in such a way that will guarantee project success. While it may be common enough to give individual employees license to manage their own time better, managing...

Warum 2018 ein großartiges Jahr für die Gründung eines Unternehmens in Großbritannien ist

Trotz der vielen Probleme, die mit dem bevorstehenden Brexit und dem Austritt des Vereinigten Königreichs aus dem mächtigen Handelsblock der Europäischen Union verbunden sind, sieht es für diejenigen, die ein Unternehmen im Vereinigten Königreich gründen möchten, immer noch sehr vielversprechend aus. Ein Paradebeispiel dafür ist, dass das Land jetzt 5,7 Millionen kleine Unternehmen hat, ein...

Tried & True Strategies for Improving Employee Engagement

Having all your employees checking in on time does not necessarily mean that your team is working at full capacity. While not necessarily a new phenomenon, employee disengagement and “presenteeism”, the idea that someone is physically at work though their focus is absent, is estimated to cost businesses in the US up to $150 billion...

Delegation: A How-To Guide

Task delegation has the ability to be truly transformative to the way we work and how our organizations function, yet all too often it is ourselves that get in the way. This can be for any number of reasons, such as: A fear of losing control over tasks Believing that you would do the task...

Was Projektmanager über Cybersicherheit wissen müssen

Because companies are often segmented into departments based on discipline, it’s easy to assume that the IT department bears sole responsibility for cyber safety on a company-wide scale. Unfortunately, IT specialists aren’t the only ones logging into systems and utilizing networks. Every employee bears some level of responsibility for cyber security in this day and...

Zehn Projektmanagement-Kurzkurse in Großbritannien

Das Projektmanagement in Großbritannien ist eine zunehmend gefragte und schwer zu besetzende Position. Angesichts der Ungewissheit im Zusammenhang mit dem Brexit, der Möglichkeit, dass Millionen von EU-Bürgern das Land verlassen, und des massiven Fachkräftemangels gab es noch nie einen besseren Zeitpunkt, um in diesem Bereich tätig zu werden. Damit Sie einen Fuß auf die...

Autoritäres vs. partizipatives Projektmanagement: Pro und Kontra

When working on a team project, it helps to be aware of how different leadership styles can affect the overall group dynamic. Some teams may find authoritarian leadership more helpful, while others may prefer a more collaborative approach. To figure out which style of management is best for your team, read about the key differences...