By Gina Abudi, on June 28th, 2009
There are a variety of ways to increase your skills and knowledge – training classes are just one way. What are some ways that you use to increase your skills and knowledge? Are you more creative in how you go about learning new skills based on the need to save money or reduced training [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 25th, 2009
Yes – if you are a project manager you really need leadership skills! Today’s project managers must have leadership skills in order to effectively perform their roles in the organization and stand out from the crowd of other project managers. Something must make you distinct from the others – especially if you are currently [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 22nd, 2009
In the previous posting, we discussed the importance of communication around the value add of having an organization-wide project management best practice and processes. Additionally, we provided a few options for doing so.
In this posting, we will discuss how to go about slowly rolling out the organization-wide project management best practice and [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 21st, 2009
Let’s be honest, it takes someone special to be a good leader. Leaders are only successful when people want to follow them. Just having leadership skills and your MBA is not sufficient. Think about the best leaders you know – whether in your company or at another company. What makes them a [...]
By Gina Abudi, on June 17th, 2009
In the last posting, we discussed the growing interest in establishing best practices around project management and discussed generally how to get started. In this posting, we are going to focus on how to communicate the value add to the organization of having a project management best practice.
Without significant buy-in throughout the organization, [...]