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6 Principles for Building Trusting and Lasting Relationships with Your Stakeholders

Your ability to build trusting and lasting relationships with your stakeholders is one of the key ingredients to becoming a successful project manager. To improve the way you communicate and interact with people, use the below best practice principles. As you read through them, ask yourself how good you are on a scale from 1 to 10 at using that particular principle in your daily interactions.

Jul 2016Read More: 6 Principles for Building Trusting and Lasting Relationships with Your Stakeholders
Project Management

3 Data Points You Must Include In Project Communications

This is a guest article by Elizabeth Harrin from GirlsGuideToPM.com People get hung up on what to include in project reporting and their stakeholder communications. Often I see people include a lot of history and the journey to where they are now in their project, but in my experience, there are only 3 data points that you really need to worry about in your regular reporting.

Jul 2016Read More: 3 Data Points You Must Include In Project Communications
Project Management

The Most Common Communication Mistakes Project Managers Make

Don’t get me wrong! A lot of project managers are doing a fantastic job of organizing and delivering their projects and keeping their clients happy. But it’s probably still true, that the majority of PMs are stronger with the harder skills of creating plans and reports than with the softer skills of communicating and motivating people. The below mistakes are the ones I the most often see project managers make when it comes to the softer communication skills.

Jun 2016Read More: The Most Common Communication Mistakes Project Managers Make
Project Management

Project Management in the Startup World

As exciting and cool as they may look, startups are an unstructured and constraint filled world. Successful entrepreneurs will tell you that they spend as many hours sorting out chaos as they do acquiring customers. Given the urgency of getting the product in shape and monetizing the business, many start-ups paid little or no attention to the nuances of project management. In the long run this proves fatal, especially as they look to achieve scale and efficiency. In this blog I will share some project management best practices aimed at start-ups.

Jun 2016Read More: Project Management in the Startup World
Leadership

6 Leadership Lessons from the Life and Times of Muhammad Ali

“Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee”. This is how the legend Muhammad Ali lived his life both inside and outside the boxing ring. As a pugilist par excellence and a public figure who made tremendous social impact, he has inspired millions with his approach to the sport and life. For a leader, there are some valuable lessons to be learnt from this legend’s life and times.

Jun 2016Read More: 6 Leadership Lessons from the Life and Times of Muhammad Ali

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