We all are looking for that time management formula that allows us to complete work in less time, get more done each day, waste less time, find more free time, take control of your day, improve your reputation and lower your stress. Here are 28 time management actions to help put you in the proper mindset to make the best use of your time.
Short Quiz on Team Member Behavior—What Would You Do?
Team members are often in the dark on the behavior expected of them while working with others. Here Are 9 important but common situations that team members are likely to encounter Throughout Their Project.
Read Article (PDF download)
7 Crucial Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders
Your leaders want you to know—need you to know—the behaviors they consistently expect from you. The more you understand what is expected of you, the more you will likely focus on honing those skills, improving your performance and, in the process, helping your leaders look good which helps you look good.
Read Article (PDF download)
Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance
Studies show that a poor work-life balance can result in unhealthy levels of stress and unhappiness. At risk are your personal relationships, your career and your development as a person, to name a few. Moreover, too much time spent working has its own problems. You run the risk of burning out and hating your job, maybe even yourself. You wake up one day and realize you’re not happy with your life. Read on…
Read Article (PDF download)
You Desire Success? Learn to Manage Daily to Your Top 3 Priorities
Managing daily to your top three priorities is crucial to your professional success. However, my experience is that most people do not manage their to-do list effectively. This article will show you how. Doing so can boost your effectiveness, reputation, and career.
Read Article (PDF download)
9 Actions to Build Your Self-Confidence
Low self-confidence will hold you back from achieving your potential. It can cause you to miss out on many opportunities and leave you with a less happy, satisfying and fulfilling life. The good news? You can learn to become and remain self-confident. I will reveal 9 actions that can help build your self-confidence.
10 Traits of the Indispensable Team Member
This article reveals a set of key behaviors and actions that every leader would like to see in each of their team members. Of course, members cannot be expected to know already or practice these tenets. These behaviors and actions must be revealed as the team is forming and reinforced throughout the project.
7 Warning Signs that You Are Too Soft
I have found most project managers and business analysts to be too soft—they are not willing to make the tough and unpopular project- or business analyst-related decisions, even though their instincts warn them that they are not taking the most effective action. Being too soft harms your effectiveness, your career, the respect from others and your ability to make a difference and make things happen.
Dealing with Difficult People: 10 Tips to Stay in Control
How effective you are at dealing with difficult people has a direct impact on how successful you become and can affect your job advancement, your relationships, your overall confidence and even your health. By demonstrating self-control, you are better prepared for dealing with almost any situation and any individual.
Read Article (PDF download)
10 No-Nonsense Behaviors that Lead to Exceptional Performance
I want to talk about you. Success does not just happen—it is made to happen. Success is born of behaviors and choices that lead to exceptional performance. In this article, I will reveal 10 important leading-edge, best-practice, results-oriented behaviors that will promote your professional and personal success.
Read Article (PDF download)
Fake It Until You Make It
PM Network®
As a leader, are you unsure of yourself? Does a lack of confidence hold you back? All of us have felt this way at some point. But if you routinely think this way, you will undermine your e ectiveness, potential and, ultimately, your career.
Here’s a two-step approach that can help you get past this destructive thinking.
Be the Best
PM Network
Are you the best at your craft as a project or program manager? At being a leader? To consistently build the best products, provide the best services and create the best teams, you must think and behave with the mindset that you’re the best at what you do. This article reveals a starter list of tenets that top practitioners embrace.
Lasting Improvement
PM Network
From my experience, there are five steps needed to institutionalize effective and continuously improving project management across an organization—and most of these actions are not performed in the majority of organizations! How does your organization fare?
Great Expectations
PM Network
Senior project managers should live up to a higher standard. This article lists 10 expectations I have for senior PMs that I don’t have for those who are less experienced. Whether you hope to become a senior project manager or already are one, how do you stack up against these expectations?
Wisdom of the Ages
PM Network
While working on my new book, I interviewed 25 United States citizens aged 67 to 87 who roughly represent the ethnic, religious, economic and social groups that make up the country. I found their hard-earned lessons, shared in this article, to correlate well with the needs of becoming more effective project leaders.
Home Is Where the Work Is
PM Network
Project teams can make telecommuting work—as long as there’s flexibility when the business requires it.
First Steps
PM Network
Less-experienced project managers sometimes struggle with how to be an effective leader. Here’s a starter list to get you up to speed quickly and avoid some common pitfalls. Seasoned project managers may also want to review the list as a refresher.
No Excuses
PM Network
Most people believe that great success is for others but not for them—and that thinking holds them back. This article plants a thought that just might change the rest of your life.
Take It to the Top
PM Network
Done right, escalations are nothing to be afraid of. This article offers guidelines to follow when an escalation is necessary.
Words of Wisdom
PM Network
The leadership you demonstrate each and every day shapes your career, but many of us need a little reminder from time to time. Here are 12 quotes that may help you through your day, your project or your profession.