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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

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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

Project Reporting | Risk Management

Are You Practicing Issue Management In Your Projects?

In the life cycle of any project, there will always be unexpected problems and issues that arise. Webinar: 3 Simple Steps for Managing Project Risks in SharePoint When…

Ken Martin | December 8, 2015 | 7 min read

Portfolio Management

What Are The Challenges With Enterprise Project Portfolio Reporting?

Global and dispersed organizations often struggle with project portfolio reporting. Free video demo: BrightWork PPM Software for SharePoint On-Premises [Watch now] Within many large organizations, the project management…

Ken Martin | December 2, 2015 | 4 min read

Portfolio Management

8 Best Practices for A Lean Project Management Office

Lean Management is a set of tools that help to improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve quality. When applied to project management, Lean practices lead to more project completed on…

Ken Martin | November 27, 2015 | 5 min read

Portfolio Management

PMO Opportunities For Continuous Improvement

As part of the project management office’s strategy for continuous improvement, a PMO should aim to focus more on the business impact of projects than its traditional role of project…

Ken Martin | November 19, 2015 | 5 min read

Project Reporting

How to Create a RAG Status in SharePoint

I’ve noticed the same question appearing in a few groups recently – “Help! How can I create a RAG Status in Vanilla SharePoint?”. As there are a few steps involved,…

Ciara McCarthy | November 11, 2015 | 5 min read

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