Projects: Managing Teams
Explore expert insights, tips, and best practices for managing teams effectively. Enhance team collaboration, boost productivity, and achieve project success with MPUG’s comprehensive resources on team management.
Recruiting, Hiring and Managing Talent: Best Practices for Finding Strong Project Team Members
The success of any project is indisputably tied to the quality of the team members working on it. As a project manager, you play a key role in the recruitment, hiring, and management of talent. This i...
How to Keep your Team Productive in Uncertain Times
Whether it’s living through a global pandemic, a reorganization at your company, or political turmoil, no one likes to live through uncertainty. When people are concerned about their financial safety,...
How to Elevate Your Impact with Less Effort and None of the Stress
Look around at the challenges facing society today: a global pandemic, economic challenges, societal unrest, and more. So-called black swan events that just a year or two ago were seemingly unthinkabl...
Communication Wake-Up
In my 40 plus years of project management, I have found most new project managers (PMs) lack skills around giving presentations, conducting meetings, and listening. This gap in communication can be pa...
Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Strong Leadership for Project Success
We all want our projects to thrive and succeed. One person’s definition of what helps make a project successful may differ from another’s, but there is no disputing that good project leadership is a c...
Remote Doesn’t Have to Feel So Remote: Seven Questions to Consider
Like any change, remote work has been a challenge for many to integrate. This change to working remotely that many experienced this year as a result of Covid-19 has been even more difficult because th...
How to Navigate Internal Politics as a Project Manager
Office politics. Those two words make some of us want to hide under our desks. Whether we like it or not, every project and organization has its politics. Project politics can be difficult to define, ...
The Close Sibling of Communications and Stakeholder Management: Resource Management
In one of my earlier articles, The Twins–Communications and Stakeholder Management, I outlined how deeply and closely these two knowledge areas of the PMBOK® guide interact with each other. We saw a g...
What to Consider in a Two-Way Interview
A job interview for both an employer and a hiring candidate can be a stressful and time-consuming activity. A recent CareerBuilder survey reported that three out of four employers felt that they had h...