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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BrightWork

The Psychology of Project Leadership

The psychology of project leadership is an emerging cross-disciplinary field that seeks to integrate the study and practice of project leadership with the fundamentals of human psychology. Read more about…

Peter Doyle | March 8, 2016 | 4 min read

Collaboration | SharePoint

How to Add a Stakeholder Register to a SharePoint Project Site

It’s critical to keep your stakeholders happy, or at the very least, informed. If you have a good communication line with your stakeholders, this can often make all the difference…

Ciara McCarthy | January 7, 2016 | 5 min read

Project Reporting

Do You Know How To Create a Good Quality Successful Project Status Report?

There are many different formats and requirements for status reports in project and program management. It is always a balance between providing relevant data to make informed decisions without becoming…

Ken Martin | December 15, 2015 | 2 min read

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