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What is Product Management? ...and a Product Manager?
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 Product Management – and what is a Product Manager?...
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Project Communication: Stop Using Telegrams - Get Better Project Results
Project Communication is too important. So, stop using telegrams! 'Whoa. I'm too young to even know what they really are.' They are just an old fashioned means of communication. Okay, so I'm exaggerating But too many Project Managers...
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Get Hired: Transferable Military Traits
When you join the military, you enter knowing that wherever your life and career takes you, there will eventually come a time to transition out of your service uniform. It is important to recognize the transferable traits as the impact...
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Business Etiquette Part Three: Happy Hour And Dining
In this third part of our "Business Etiquette" series, Billy Glading and Crystal L. Bailey from the Etiquette Institute of Washington walk us through the do's and don'ts of business etiquette for after hours events as well as business...
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Networking 101
No matter the industry, networking is essential to a long, successful career. The most successful networkers know that the real work begins well before the event begins and ends long after you get home. Preparation and follow-up are just...
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Actively Listen and Understand Their Perspective
Showing empathy starts with acknowledging another person’s situation and feelings, and showing compassion. Empathy involves imagining the other person’s perspective and responding thoughtfully. In this program, psychologists Eve Ash and...
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The Rule of Silence: The Free Source of Power in a Meeting
The Rule of Silence There are few techniques in Project Management techniques as simple as this one. It's a free source of power in your next meeting. You want to know what a stakeholder thinks. So you ask them. But you don't think they...
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Project Takeover Formula: How to Take Over a Started Project
It is never a good idea to take over a project someone else has started. There is too much risk that they will not have set it up to succeed. But, if you have to, you're going to need my Project Takeover Formula. So, what should you do...
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How to Understand the Sources of Conflict
If you look on the web, you’ll find there are only three sources of conflict… or maybe it’s five… or eight… The truth is - as anyone who has lived any length of time knows – that there are as many causes of conflict as combinations of...
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How to Make Your Message Memorable
When you communicate with your team or with your stakeholders, you must surely want to make your message memorable. But how? Here are 5 techniques, based on solid psychology. When you communicate with your stakeholders, your ideal...
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Top 7 Ways to Become a More Influential Project Manager
Do people listen when you speak, and take your advice when you offer it? Part of growing, as a Project Manager, is becoming more influential. Here are seven of my top tips. Raising your level of influence is often a matter of changing...
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How to Transition to Business as Usual - BAU
Once your project is complete, you need to hand it over to the Business as Usual team, and document a BAU Transition model or BAU Support Model, to define how the project deliverables will be supported in BAU. Details depend on what you...
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Conflict in Project Management: It's Your Fault
Conflict seems to be a big part of a Project Manager's life... So, you'd better learn to suck it up. And you also need to learn to handle it effectively... and with respect. But you can do better The ideal position is to make conflict a...
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The Single Best Team Effectiveness Tool
What is the single best Team Effectiveness tool? I'll tell you. As a Project Manager, you want the best from your team. But your time is limited, and you have so much to do. So, you need to be focused. What is the best way to get the...
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Astonish Your Stakeholders... with a Stakeholder Listening Plan
You're familiar, I'm sure, with the idea of a Stakeholder Communication Plan. This is often a schedule of activities designed to get your project message out. But it can easily miss out something vital... Why not create a Stakeholder...
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Stakeholder Engagement Tips: 5 Tips For Project Managers
Stakeholders - and good stakeholder engagement - are the key to a successful project. So, in this video, we have 5 stakeholder engagement tips for you. These tips are inspired by our Kindle-exclusive eBook, 'Stakeholder Engagement:...
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Avoid Project Failure: 5 Top Tips
No one wants their project to fail. Despite this, project failure is all too common. When you start projects, you are often filled with optimism, and can barely recognize the possibility of failure. And the risk of project failure gets...
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What is Servant Leadership? Project Leadership at its Best
Servant leader. That sounds pretty much like a contradiction in terms, but it is a profoundly important idea. Indeed, I’d argue that servant leadership the single most valuable approach to leadership. And it’s an approach that no leader...
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How to Get People to Do What You Ask Them to Do?
One of the toughest things for a Project Manager is getting your team to do what you ask them to do. And it's no surprise that the way you ask matters. But I'd like to suggest a three-step approach that can help you lock-in a mind-set...
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Increase Your Email Responses: How to Get People to Respond to Emails
Do you want to increase your email responses? I expect you do. After all, you take the trouble to craft your email. So why wouldn't you want people to respond to it? Project Management technology is changing fast. But it's a fair bet...
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Be Open and Friendly to Build Rapport
Rapport is a connection with another person, which can happen instantly or develop over time. In this program, psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry explain how to build rapport through openness and friendliness. Learn simple strategies...
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Asking Open and Tag Questions
Asking questions makes conversations more engaging and helps build rapport. The type, tone, timing, and framing of questions all influence the quality of a conversation. Questions should be respectful and suit the situation and your...
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Introduce and Talk About Yourself in Conversation
Meeting new people can be daunting, especially if you feel shy, but this program will help you introduce and talk about yourself with confidence. Learn to describe yourself briefly, ask engaging friendly questions. Psychologists Eve Ash...
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How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World
In 1970, a recording of a whale song changed the world. The album, “Songs Of The Humpback Whale,” helped launch a movement to ban commercial whaling and protect endangered species. Today, scientists are getting closer and closer to...