Developing a relationship with the right mentor can be a significant step toward reaching your professional goals. Mentors help us gain new perspectives, make better plans, master advanced skills, meet new people, and focus our efforts. Finding the right mentor may seem like a daunting project unto itself, but remembering some simple guidelines will help you narrow the choices to those in the best position to help you succeed.
Archive for June, 2010
10 Tips to Improve Your Next Project Management Presentation
Presentations are powerful tools for relaying information, persuading key stakeholders, and displaying your team’s successes. Below are some tips to help make your next presentation a crowd pleaser.
1 – Avoid visual overload. Save the flashy animations for areas of your presentation that need additional emphasis. For everything else, stick to smooth, subtle transitions.
4 Project Management Tips for “Scattered Team” Success
Many of today’s teams work on shared objectives while being geographically distant from each other. These scattered teams are often highly productive, but members run the risk of feeling alienated, less accountable to the team, and out of the loop—scenarios that could put successful completion of your project’s objectives in jeopardy. Avoid the most common pitfalls by using these tips to maintain your scattered team’s cohesiveness, morale, and efficiency.
Project Management Teamwork : When Good Confrontation Goes Bad
Many people think confrontation is something to be rooted out and stopped. On the contrary, the right kinds of confrontation can actually make your team more productive and your project more successful. Before you decide to invite your coworkers over for a grudge match, be sure you’re supporting the good sort of confrontation, and preventing the bad kind from hampering your team’s efforts.
Project Management: Three Important Tips for Better Business Writing
Most projects require some amount of writing—memos, reports, status updates, budget justifications, personnel requests and other communications all call for clear, and sometimes persuasive, writing. If writing isn’t your thing (and for most of us it isn’t), then read on for tips to help streamline your writing tasks while improving your skills.
