Ihr Wegweiser durch die digital vernetzte Arbeitswelt
Move over, email. Step aside, cubicles. Take a hike, undersized parking lot. There’s a despised new addition to the ENTERPRISE LEAST WANTED LIST, and it took a Planview AdaptiveWork survey to force it out of the shadows and into the spotlight: conference calls. About the Survey The aforementioned survey, which was conducted online by Harris...
In the digital sphere, it can often seem like the world is awash with too much content, yet quality content is still king and shines through the mass of poorly produced work. McDonald’s isn’t about to create a campaign around a random picture of a burger taken by one of their executives; a quality burger...
Silicon Valley’s “fail fast” mantra has become gospel in recent years. Its evangelists promise failure, defined as a series of product tests and tweaks, leads to success. They urge failing fast, failing forward and failing often. They pepper TED talks with failure confessionals, and let’s not forget FailCon, an entire conference dedicated to the concept....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
