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 Praktiker för mycket effektiva lagmedlemmar

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...

Resurshantering & Vad det betyder för ditt team

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...

Varför 2018 är ett utmärkt år att starta företag i Storbritannien

Trots de många problem som är förknippade med den kommande brexit och Storbritanniens utträde ur det mäktiga handelsblocket Europeiska unionen, ser det fortfarande mycket lovande ut för dem som funderar på att starta ett företag i Storbritannien. Ett utmärkt exempel på detta är att landet nu har 5.7 miljoner småföretag, en...

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...

Vad projektledare behöver veta om cybersäkerhet

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...

Tio kortkurser i projektledning i Storbritannien

Projektledning i Storbritannien blir en alltmer eftertraktad och svårbesatt tjänst. Med osäkerheten kring Brexit, möjligheten att miljontals EU-medborgare lämnar landet och den massiva kompetensbristen som redan har visat sig har det aldrig varit en bättre tid att börja arbeta inom branschen. För att få in en fot på...

Auktoritär kontra deltagande projektledning: Fördelar och nackdelar

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...