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Project Governance Tips - 5 Tips for Good Project Governance

10th - Higher Ed
Good Project Governance is one of the golden keys to project management success. So, in this video, we have 5 Project Governance tips for you.



These tips are inspired by our Kindle-exclusive eBook, 'Project
Governance
A...
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Challenging Communication Tips for Better Project Communication

10th - Higher Ed
Project Management is 80 percent communication. And the bit we fear is the challenging communication that comes with pressure, emotions, bad news, and high stakes.



But a project manager needs the communication skills to...
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Personal Effectiveness: 5 Tips for Project Managers

10th - Higher Ed
Project Management is a professional discipline. It’s not enough to be skilled in the methods. You need to cultivate personal effectiveness. So, I'll offer you five of my best personal effectiveness tips.



These tips are...
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Certification for Project Managers - 5 Tips

10th - Higher Ed
Project Management is an excellent career. At its best, you are judged by your track record and your capabilities. But many organizations need a short-hand to know what you know. That's where qualifications come in handy. So here,...
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How to Succeed in Project Management: 8 Skills to Cultivate

10th - Higher Ed
Do you want to know how to succeed in Project Management? I'll tell you: hard work. But in this video, I look at eight particular skills to cultivate. They are all themed around one master-competence that is crucial to your success as...
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Leading without Authority: How to Manage and Lead People

10th - Higher Ed
Project Managers rarely have authority over the people we need to manage. So, our challenge is leading without authority.



A manager typically has authority over the people they manage. But project managers rarely do....
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The Need for Speed: How to Increase the Pace of Your Project

10th - Higher Ed
As project managers, we are constantly faced with the Need for Speed.



Because one of the biggest challenges is the pace of change. More particularly, it is the demands our organizations are placing on us to respond...
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Project Risk Management - How to Manage Project Risk

10th - Higher Ed
When you are managing a project, risk is always with you. So, Project Risk Management is a fundamental discipline.



Project Risk Management one of the 10 Knowledge Areas in the PMBOK Guide 6th Edition and one of the 7 themes...
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Overcome Overwhelm: How to Cope with Overwhelm

10th - Higher Ed
Your work builds up and your problems increase. Deadlines loom. Before you know it, you’re feeling overwhelmed. It can easily happen to a Project Manager. There’s just so much you have to do. And now you have to cope with...
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How to Build a Great Project Communications Plan

10th - Higher Ed
If your project does not have a good enough Communications Plan, people won't know as much as they want to know.



And if your project fails to keep communication ahead of events then, in the absence of real...
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What is SWOT Analysis? Useful tool for Project Managers

10th - Higher Ed
SWOT Analysis is a well-known tool. And rightly so!

It is simple, yet it is also flexible and powe

rful.

As a project manager, SWOT Analysis is one of those tools that you can use in...
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Real Project Team: What Will You Do to Create One?

10th - Higher Ed
What will you do to create a real project team?



I remembered this when I came across the concept of 'Real Teams'. This idea comes from Jon Katzenbach, a leading thinker

on teams.

Jon...
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How to Negotiate: The Basics of Negotiation

10th - Higher Ed
Whether it's with suppliers, stakeholders, or colleagues on your team, negotiation is a skill that project managers use nearly every day. But, as the stakes get higher, it becomes...
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Project Management Lessons from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

10th - Higher Ed
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey is a classic. And we can apply each of his classic habits to becoming an effective Project Manager.



By the way, you can get a Amazon

rom
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How to Get Your First Project Management Job

10th - Higher Ed
Getting your first Project Management job is something of a ‘chicken and egg’ problem…



It’s hard to get a Project Management job without experience. But, how can you get experience,...
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What is Group Think? ...and How to Prevent it

10th - Higher Ed
Group Think is nasty. It leads to poor decisions... sometimes dangerous ones. So Project Managers need to know what it is, how it happens, and how to prevent it.



Group Think was first...
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Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying)

10th - Higher Ed
Three issues in one video: overload, overwhelm, and yelling clients (bullying).



One of the members of our OnlinePMCourses community wro

te to me.

I was reading the...
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How to Understand the Stages of Conflict

10th - Higher Ed
In an earlier video, we looked at the Sources of Conflict. In this video, we will focus on the stages of conflict: Escalation and De-escalation.



How to Understand the...
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What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? And How to Make one.

10th - Higher Ed
What would happen if a disruptive event meant you no longer have full access to your critical technology infrastructure or data? You need a Disaster Recovery...
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Top 12 Non-Technical Skills that a Project Manager Needs

10th - Higher Ed
It's not enough to know all the technical Project Management skills. To succeed, you need a load of non-technical skills too. Here are my top 12.



First, by non-technical, I mean skills that are not the key PM...
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Top 6 Ways to Detect Deception and How to Spot a Liar

10th - Higher Ed
How can you detect deception and spot a liar? Project managers need to ask people to do things, get their opinions, and work in a political environment. So, sadly, you will find that people lie to you....
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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure: A WBS Masterclass

10th - Higher Ed
The Work Breakdown Structure (or WBS) is one of the few truly fundamental tools of Project Management. But how do you create one?



I am not going to start with...
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What is Product Management? ...and a Product Manager?

10th - Higher Ed
Product Management sounds a bit like Project Management. But it’s very different. However, I often get asked the question.



So, in this video I’m going to answer the question, what is...
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Top 7 Leadership Tools and Methods for Team and Project Leaders

10th - Higher Ed
There is a wealth of great leadership tools and ideas that you can apply to your professional practice.



Let's look at seve

n of them.

1. Get people
to Honor Commitments
Play to their...