Help! I’m a new project manager, and have no clue where to start.
Project managers are neither made nor born. They are hurled, without warning and without training, into the maelstrom of management. It’s a sink-or-swim world. Sometimes, it happens when the company...
View ArticleThe Five Skills of World’s Most Successful Project Managers
If you read a book on project management, you’ll probably read about stuff like systems approach to planning, change management, teamwork, managing personnel, meeting deadlines, and implementation of...
View Article10 Powerful Conversation Phrases that Will Improve Your Leadership
You can’t lead well unless you can speak well. Most people in leadership roles know this intuitively — you have to be a “good speaker,” whatever that means. Leadership is about communication. But what...
View ArticleFour Ways that Dishonesty Is Holding You Back in Business
Honesty in business is in desperately short supply. Businesses topple due to dishonesty. Financial fortunes are compromised due to dishonesty. Business relationships are fractured due to dishonesty. We...
View ArticleSeven Shocking Project Management Statistics and Lessons We Should Learn
Project management is no cakewalk. From crushing deadlines to strangling budgets, there is no arguing with the fact that project management is downright brutal. In my experience, one of the best ways...
View ArticleFive Productivity Hacks You Must Do at the End of Every Day
It’s 4:35 pm. You’re exhausted. “Drained” is more like it. You feel like a tire at the end of a road trip. Or like the bottom of a marathoner’s shoe. Flat. Dirty. Sore. Whimpering. It’s been a day of...
View ArticlePractice this One Emotion to Improve Your Career
When most people think of leadership, they think of character traits like confident, strong, honest, passionate, persuasive. One trait that’s often overlooked is gratitude. When you hear it, it doesn’t...
View ArticleThe Busy Human’s Guide to The Best Productivity Systems in the World
Every productive person has a system for getting things done. You can’t be productive unless you have a system, a method, a process, whatever you want to call it. Basically, you have a way of doing...
View Article11 Email Hacks That Will Turn You into an Email Master
Ever seen this? It’s an empty inbox. There’s nothing in there. Nothing. It’s a rare animal, related to the unicorn, and rarely seen in the wild. Few people have actually witnessed this phenomenon in...
View ArticleWhy You Should Have Fired That Client a Month Ago
Every project manager faces this experience. It’s starts as a gnawing pain in the back of the brain. It buzzes into a full-fledged, eye-popping epiphany. And then it explodes into a full face-palm. “We...
View Article14 Ways to Show Clients You’re in Control
Relationships between agencies and clients can be…complicated. I’ve had my share of client relationships that went well, went south, and went dead. One of the most frustrating types of relationships...
View ArticleHow to Turn a Tense Client Conversation into a Win-Win
I’m sure you’ve been in this situation before. You’re on the phone with a client, and things are… awkward. The project has been going according to plan. Project communication had been going...
View ArticleThe 8 Rules for Effective Remote Meetings
Holding meetings is an art and a science. With remote meetings, it’s art and science at a whole new level. And sometimes, it makes meetings annoying, awkward, inconvenient, and downright infuriating....
View ArticleFive Bizarre Productivity Hacks that Any Manager Can Start Using
Sometimes, productivity looks like streamlined systems that are purring along, maximizing efficiency, abolishing wasted time, and resulting in flawlessly executed days. Other times, productivity...
View Article11 Ways to Be Totally Awesome at Remote Work
How and where we work is extremely important. In the modern age of knowledge workers, the question of where and how we work has become…complicated. Why the complication? Two words: Remote work. Some...
View ArticleThe Psychology and Practice of Complimenting Your Team
“I can live for two months on a good compliment,” said Mark Twain, the American author. That’s a long time to go without food, shelter, and Amazon Prime, but I see his point. Compliments are powerful....
View ArticleThe Ultimate List of Things You Should Say When Your Client Isn’t Happy
It doesn’t matter how awesome you are. It doesn’t matter how amazing your work. It doesn’t matter if you delivered on time and under budget. It doesn’t matter whether you have bad breath or good...
View ArticleFour Common Mistakes of Remote Project Managers
If you thought that being a project manager was hard, try being a remote project manager. A remote project manager is someone who has people on his or her team who work remotely. Being a remote project...
View ArticleHow to Over Communicate to Employees Without Annoying Them
I’m about to make a massive overstatement. Here it is: Communication failures are the source of most problems at work. I have some data and hard research to back this up. Accountemps reports that...
View ArticleYour Workplace Attitude Is Everything — How to Not Stress Out, Blow Up, or...
We’ve all had those days. The days where you feel like shouting at a colleague, slamming a door, or crushing the Bunn coffee maker. Sometimes, anger is justifiable. Maybe the colleague deserved it....
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