by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 24, 2022 | Elizabeth's Diary, This article contains affiliate links., Work/Life Balance
Ever wondered how other people fit it all in? I thought I’d share my daily routine to show you how I do it. It’s a Friday. The morning Wake up at 5.30 am when the children wake up. I check my email before getting out of bed on my smartphone. I am well aware that I...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Apr 6, 2022 | Elizabeth's Diary, PMI
Do you think about what you say at work? Alfonso Bucero certainly does. He presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin on the subject of why we should choose our words carefully. “During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 28, 2022 | Elizabeth's Diary
This blog post was originally a newsletter article. I scheduled it to send out recently (I do automate sending emails, otherwise you’d get 3 at a time at 11pm one day and then nothing for months) and forgot about it. Then the responses started coming in… and didn’t...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Mar 27, 2022 | Elizabeth's Diary, Other people's projects
In 2012, Helen Mason stood outside her home and looked at the road. Every day there were more frogs and toads that hadn’t made it to the other side. The increasing numbers of dead amphibians made her feel that the local population of frogs and toads needed a helping...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 19, 2022 | Elizabeth's Diary, This article contains affiliate links.
Social media is a de facto standard for businesses these days. Brands can thrive or wither on the quality of their social media manager and some networks can be ruthless. Campaigns and tweets can stick in customers’ memories for a long time: who can forget the Colin...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Feb 10, 2022 | Change Management, Elizabeth's Diary
Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing...