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How to Reduce the Impact of Cognitive Biases on Project Decisions
Collaboration
How to Reduce the Impact of Cognitive Biases on Project Decisions
Have you ever taken your friends to your favorite restaurant only to be surprised that they didn’t like it? Maybe you recently changed your car and now it seems everyone…
Grace Windsor | March 13, 2017 | 5 min read
Decision-Making: 3 Approaches to Help You Make “The Right” One!
Collaboration
Decision-Making: 3 Approaches to Help You Make “The Right” One!
Decision-making is hard. I put my hands straight up and admit, I am one of those people who always want to make “the right” decision. How do you make the…
Ciara McDonnell | March 8, 2017 | 4 min read
How to Use Emotional Intelligence for Enhanced Team Collaboration
Collaboration | Hybrid Work
How to Use Emotional Intelligence for Enhanced Team Collaboration
If you needed to improve your team’s overall productivity, what would you do? I imagine you may develop project templates; create a collaborative project site; delegate work; help your team…
Grace Windsor | February 13, 2017 | 5 min read
How to Manage Difficult Conversations with Team Members
Collaboration
How to Manage Difficult Conversations with Team Members
Conflict, personality clashes, and other challenges will arise in project teams for many reasons. This can lead to difficult conversations between you, the project manager, and individual team members.  …
Grace Windsor | January 24, 2017 | 7 min read
How to Reach Your Professional and Personal Goals
Collaboration
How to Reach Your Professional and Personal Goals
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” — Fitzhugh Dodson Goals, whether personal or professional, are powerful motivators…
Grace Windsor | January 9, 2017 | 6 min read
Situational Leadership: 3 Easy Ways to Adapt Your Approach
Collaboration
Situational Leadership: 3 Easy Ways to Adapt Your Approach
The journey to successful collaborative project leadership has so far included key leadership strategies for project managers and suggestions for positive team dynamics. Another important leadership technique is adapting to…
Eamonn McGuinness | January 4, 2017 | 3 min read
How to Boost Project Team Engagement in 3 Steps
Collaboration
How to Boost Project Team Engagement in 3 Steps
An important step towards project leadership is team management. The importance of leading and supporting your team becomes even clearer when we consider recent studies and surveys showing that large…
Eamonn McGuinness | December 29, 2016 | 4 min read
15 Ways to Cultivate Your Project Leadership Style
Collaboration
15 Ways to Cultivate Your Project Leadership Style
If you are a new Project Manager, you really should think about leadership.   Develop your leadership skills with our free project handbook    It is very important to have…
Eamonn McGuinness | December 20, 2016 | 4 min read
8 Practical Ideas to Overcome Procrastination
Task Management
8 Practical Ideas to Overcome Procrastination
Recently, we featured tips for motivating your team and developing a healthier attitude to achieve personal and professional goals. A recurring theme within these posts was the importance of just getting…
Grace Windsor | November 29, 2016 | 6 min read
7 Ways to Sharpen Your Attitude to Life
Collaboration
7 Ways to Sharpen Your Attitude to Life
On your project and in life, you have the cards you have for now.   Develop your project leadership skills with our free handbook!   Maybe you dealt the cards…
Eamonn McGuinness | November 16, 2016 | 5 min read
6 Ways to Improve Project Team Motivation
Free Template
6 Ways to Improve Project Team Motivation
A project manager wears many hats: planner, negotiator, resource manager, delegator and accountant to name but a few.   Develop your leadership skills with our free project management handbook  …
Grace Windsor | November 14, 2016 | 6 min read
5 Key Success Factors for BrightWork Deployments
BrightWork
5 Key Success Factors for BrightWork Deployments
BrightWork has been deployed to thousands of customers over the past twenty years. Having spent some time reviewing customer success, I have identified five key success factors behind these deployments…
Scott Footlik | October 27, 2016 | 5 min read
What Is The Best Personality Type For Project Managers?
Collaboration
What Is The Best Personality Type For Project Managers?
I recently introduced the nine Enneagram personality types and their impact on leadership styles. It is worth spending some time reading and considering the nine types before deciding which best…
Eamonn McGuinness | October 24, 2016 | 4 min read
Decision-Making and Personality Traits
Collaboration
Decision-Making and Personality Traits
Personality traits play a much bigger role in decision making than you may think. Some people are, by their very nature, indecisive. They find it quite difficult to make most…
Eamonn McGuinness | September 29, 2016 | 2 min read
How to Run a Successful Team Meeting [Agenda Template]
Collaboration
How to Run a Successful Team Meeting [Agenda Template]
Running a successful project meeting that energizes and informs your team does not happen by accident! Take a look at how you currently organize meetings and consider the question –…
Eamonn McGuinness | August 22, 2016 | 4 min read
Get More Results from Your Project Sponsor Meetings [Agenda Template]
Collaboration
Get More Results from Your Project Sponsor Meetings [Agenda Template]
Keeping your project sponsor informed about the progress of the project is incredibly important to the overall success of the work.   Learn more about leadership and collaboration in our…
Eamonn McGuinness | August 15, 2016 | 3 min read
9 Strategies for More Productive Team Meetings
Collaboration
9 Strategies for More Productive Team Meetings
Meetings are essential to collaboration during a project. When run correctly, meetings help to connect, involve, and inform your team. A good meeting should energize the team.   Learn more…
Eamonn McGuinness | August 9, 2016 | 6 min read
Get DAFT for Better Meetings
Collaboration
Get DAFT for Better Meetings
“A meeting is an event where minutes are taken and hours wasted.”    James T. Kirk (William Shatner’s character from Star Trek)   Although this quote is not likely from the original…
Eamonn McGuinness | August 3, 2016 | 3 min read
5 Steps to Improve Your Time Management
Collaboration
5 Steps to Improve Your Time Management
Time is a finite resource that we all wish we could top up every now and then! Juggling multiple, and sometimes competing, professional and personal commitments makes effective time management…
Grace Windsor | July 25, 2016 | 3 min read
15 Ways to Cultivate Your Project Leadership Style
Collaboration
Get the Project Approved, Sponsored, and Resourced
You are ready to start a new project – what’s next? You should formally initiate the project so you know what you’re getting into as a project manager before you…
Eamonn McGuinness | July 21, 2016 | 3 min read
Collaborative Project Management: Make the Leap
Free Template
Collaborative Project Management: Make the Leap
If you’re in an organization and you want to do something new, strategic, exciting, challenging, difficult – it’s a project.   Click to download our free book, Collaborative Project Management…
Eamonn McGuinness | June 23, 2016 | 5 min read
11 Leadership Qualities of a Great Project Manager
BrightWork
11 Leadership Qualities of a Great Project Manager
Leadership is an essential and critical skill that can determine the magnitude of an individual’s achievements within their career. To be a successful and productive project manager, however, the qualities…
Ta'Rikah Jones | May 27, 2016 | 6 min read
Six Secrets to Using Earned Value Management [Infographic]
Project Reporting
Six Secrets to Using Earned Value Management [Infographic]
Here is a simple definition of earned value: earned value is a way to measure project performance and progress. You take your plan and assign a value for each item or…
Ciara McDonnell | April 21, 2016 | 3 min read
3 Projects that Failed Miserably
Collaboration
3 Projects that Failed Miserably
Believe it or not, projects fail…all the time. And not just small projects from small organizations, but large ones of huge significance. Some of the most powerful companies in the world…
Ruairi O'Donnellan | March 15, 2016 | 7 min read
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