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Vacation Preparation: Leadership Priorities when You're Leaving the Office
Vacation preparation is not just packing your bags; it's leaving everything tidy. So, at vacation time, what are your leadership priorities when you're leaving the office? If it's vacation time, know this: Your project won't stop while...
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How to Do Issue Management
With any project, things will happen that you don't expect. Issues will emerge. So, how do you do Issue Management? In this video, I describe the following steps: 1. Identify Issues 2. Analyze Issues 3. Plan Issue Response 4. Take...
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The Legendary Career of Oliver Khan: The Titan of German Goalkeeping
Oliver Khan, known as the "King Khan" and "Titan," was a legendary German goalkeeper who dominated the football field during the 90s and naughties. With his formidable frame and exceptional goalkeeping skills, he became a key player for...
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Rise of a Football Legend: The Carlos Tevez Story
This video provides a brief overview of Carlos Tevez's career, highlighting his success at both club and international level. It mentions his upbringing in a working-class neighborhood in Argentina and his journey to Europe, specifically...
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The Legacy of Bobby Charlton and the Busby Babes: Triumph and Tragedy at Manchester United
This video provides a brief overview of Bobby Charlton's career as a player for Manchester United, highlighting his role as one of the Busby Babes, the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of his teammates, and his subsequent...
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Football for a Cause: Fighting Malaria and HIV/AIDS through Charity Matches
The video highlights how football is being used as a powerful tool to raise awareness and funds for important causes such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. It showcases the efforts of FC Barcelona, Manchester United, and other football legends in...
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The Intense Rivalry: Mexico vs. United States in Football
This video explores the historic rivalry between Mexico and the United States in the sport of football (soccer). It highlights Mexico's dominance over the United States for many years, with Mexico often emerging as the victor in their...
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World Cup 2010: The Ivory Coast's Fairy Tale and Australia's Overachievement
This video discusses the history and achievements of the Ivory Coast and Australian national soccer teams leading up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. It highlights the Ivory Coast's qualification for the 2006 World Cup and their...
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World Cup Football: Brazil and Japan's Quest for Success
This video discusses the history and success of the Brazilian national football team, highlighting their five World Cup wins and the star players that have contributed to their success. It also provides information on the current squad...
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Procurement Management 101 - A Comprehensive Primer
At some point on a large project, you need someone else to provide the goods or services that will supplement your team’s capabilities and resources. How do you ensure you get what you need, and you get good value? The answer is...
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Project Organization
Learn about the basic organizational structure of a project from Dr Mike Clayton, author of How to Manage a Great Project, and founder of OnlinePMCourses. This is a sample video from our Project Management core course program. We have...
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What is Scrumban? A blend of Scrum and Kanban.
You've heard of Scrum... You've heard of Kanban... So, what is Scrumban?
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What is Collaboration? Project Management in Under 5
Good collaboration harnesses the differences between people, and is an essential part of project management. So, what is Collaboration?
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What is Crashing the Timeline? Project Management in Under 5
Your project gets delayed... Or maybe you need to finish early... So, what is Crashing the Timeline?
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Leading without Authority: How to Manage and Lead People
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. So, we cannot simply...
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The Need for Speed: How to Increase the Pace of Your Project
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 to the pace of change,...
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How to Estimate Project Costs: A Method for Cost Estimation
There are two reasons why cost estimation is important for project managers. First, it’s extremely hard to estimate project costs well. And second, poor cost estimates are often the biggest reason for a project budget over-run. And...
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Real Project Team: What Will You Do to Create One?
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 Katzenbach - along with Douglas Smith - is the author...
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What is Your Psychological Distance?
One of the key things to know, in deciding how to motivate your people is 'what is your Psychological Distance?' As a Project Leader, one of your critical jobs is keeping your team motivated. We all learn about motivation - some more...
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What is Group Think? ...and How to Prevent it
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 identified in the 1970s, by the social psychologist...
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Top 7 Leadership Tools and Methods for Team and Project Leaders
There is a wealth of great leadership tools and ideas that you can apply to your professional practice. Let's look at seven of them. 1. Get people to Honor Commitments Play to their conscience: Use "the Jiminy Cricket effect". 2....
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How to Work with Consultants
Working with consultants is unfamiliar to many project managers and project team members. But, if you do it right, you will get the best possible value from your organization’s investment. So, how do you work with consultants? I was a...
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What are a Burndown Chart, a Burnup Chart, and Velocity?
In this video, I want to answer the question, What is a Burndown Chart and a Burnup Chart? And What is Velocity? A Burndown chart is a way to visualize progress. It plots outstanding work against time. So, as you make progress, the work...
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6 More Project Management Hacks in 3 Minutes
Six more short, sharp, easy things you can do that will have big results in improving your project outcomes. 6 More Project Management Hacks to boost your project performance.