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Six lessons that IT Project Managers can learn from the world’s best athletes
Possibly, like me, you have been hooked on an outstanding summer of sport. Regular readers of my blogs will know that I take inspiration from all manner of experiences and walks of life and I bring...
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A promotion is nice, a bonus is quickly squandered, in IT Project Management,...
When motivating IT Project Management team members, praise, gratitude and recognition for ‘a job well done’ can be as powerful as a raise, a bonus or a promotion. If not more so. Think about it...
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Why you should ask your talent ‘Where would you want to work after here?’
“If you get the gig, where would you want to work after here?” As a recruitment specialist, my ears pricked up. I heard this conversation in a coffee bar this week. Actually, I was already pretty...
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Never blow an IT project budget again
Most of my friends, colleagues and clients are forecasting that IT budgets will increase during 2017 but according to a recent survey, many CIOs say that managing and implementing those budgets is...
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Great talent is not easily replaceable
When your firm loses a great team member, they take with them a business value that cannot be easily replaced. First, there’s the rich knowledge that they have of your organisation, its products,...
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How to influence others
A while ago I posted on influencing without authority, that post looked at building credibility and ‘currency’ to trade for the support and help you need. Those ideas buy you a seat at the table but...
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7 Reasons why IT Project Managers were born to blog
“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it...
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7 Silver bullets to stop office politics killing your IT projects
Office politics! Working in IT Project Management, given the profession’s prominent role in the facilitation of business strategy and driving business change, you’d think we’d be above it! Project...
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Prioritising IT projects has never mattered more
IT Project prioritisation is crucial for your organisation. Selecting the wrong projects, which don’t deliver strategic value or the required ROI can impact the bottom line and mean that your...
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The What, Why And How Of Stakeholder Management
All size of projects, even the smallest, littlest projects have stakeholders. Most management styles, systems, approaches and methodologies have to involve a stakeholder analysis process for this...
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