by Elizabeth Harrin | Apr 15, 2024 | Delivering a project, Training
As a program manager, PMO or project team leader, you probably think about how to plan upcoming work. And that includes the requirements for developing the project management capability in the organisation to deliver the upcoming projects. It’s easy to think that...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Apr 14, 2024 | Delivering a project, Training
As project managers, most of us know how important it is to make sure that what we deliver is actually useful and used by the people we deliver it for. That’s where change management comes in. Have you ever wished someone could give you the secret to dealing with...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Apr 12, 2024 | Communication, communications, Delivering a project, meetings
Project managers need to be good at facilitation because we run a lot of meetings and take part in a lot of discussions. A lot of facilitation happens during project initiation. But you also want to be able to draw on your facilitation skills throughout the life of...
by Chris Cook | Apr 9, 2024 | Delivering a project
Project managers want to make the best decisions for themselves, the project, and the project team. In order to do so, project managers must be aware of biases. Based on experiences, people can come to different conclusions when presented with the same scenario and...
by Michelle Symonds | Apr 1, 2024 | Delivering a project
Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget. The project will also be expected to...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 11, 2024 | communications, Delivering a project, Methods and frameworks, This article contains affiliate links.
Change management is often part of a project manager’s role, but we don’t get a lot of formal training in how to make it happen. I’ve taken lots of training courses over the years, but most of the project management classes haven’t focused on change management at all,...