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What is VUCA? ...and VUCA' (VUCA Prime)
VUCA. It's a VUCA world. You've heard it a lot. Have you ever wondered what it means? If you don't know and have wondered, well now's your chance to find out. I'll answer the questions: What is VUCA, and What is VUCA' (VUCA Prime) VUCA...
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How to Negotiate: The Basics of Negotiation
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 more important to know how to negotiate. So, in this...
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Project Management Lessons from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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 copy from Amazon: https://geni.us/Zulp Habit 1: Be...
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How to Get Your First Project Management Job
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, without a Project Management job? Break the Cycle The...
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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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Project Management Lessons from Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai
Hagakure, the Book of the Samurai, was written in the 18th Century. It draws from the words of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. Those words have a lot that a modern Project Manager can learn from. The book was popularised in the movie...
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Overload, Overwhelm, and a Yelling Client (Bullying)
Three issues in one video: overload, overwhelm, and yelling clients (bullying). One of the members of our OnlinePMCourses community wrote to me. I was reading the 'Feeling Overwhelmed by Your Project? What to Do' article...
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How to Understand the Stages of Conflict
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 Sources of Conflict: • How to Understand the Sources of Conf... The...
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What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? And How to Make one.
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 Plan. While Business Continuity (BC) focuses on restoring and maintaining the...
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Top 12 Non-Technical Skills that a Project Manager Needs
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 skills like scheduling, risk...
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Top 6 Ways to Detect Deception and How to Spot a Liar
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. There's no sure way to tell if...
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How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure: A WBS Masterclass
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 activities - despite the fact that this is, linguistically, what the word...
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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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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 is a Statement of Work (SOW)? And what are the different types?
A Statement of Work – often abbreviated to SOW – is a detailed and structured statement of requirements. But what does that mean, and what are the different types of Statement of Work? A Statement of Work is usually a contractual...
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What is the SCARF Model?
Social behaviors – like those we see in and around our projects – are driven by two urges: to minimize perceived threat, and to maximize potential reward. But what are the sources of threat and reward in the social domain? That is the...
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Better Decision-making and More Robust Choices - Top 10 Tips
The test of a 'good' decision is not the outcome. Instead, consider a decision to be good if the right person took it, with the best available evidence, following a sound process. Here are ten tips to strengthen your decision-making...
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Truth Decay: Top 10 Reasons to Apply Skepticism and Doubt as a Project Manager
The truth is not a constant. Knowledge changes and you must change with it if you are to stay in control of Truth Decay. And that means that your best friends are skepticism and doubt. For project managers, doubt is a valuable weapon in...
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Project Management in Under 5: What is Strategic Project Definition?
If a project definition defines your project, what is a Strategic Project Definition?
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What is a Variation Order (VO)? Project Management in Under 5
When your project needs to change, so may your contracts. So, what is a Variation Order?
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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.
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What are RAID, CAD, and DCARI?
Defining your project is a vital task. And there are a lot of things to remember. Fortunately, we have some handy acronyms: RAID, CAD, and DCARI. You may find them helpful - or you may have heard them, and wondered what they mean. So,...
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Should Your Project Have a Second Project Phase?
Mike. We've delivered our project, but now my client/sponsor wants a second project phase. How can I integrate this into my project?' That's a question I a project manager asked me, that triggered this short thought-video, on whether to...