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Navigating Resistance: The Agile Adoption Journey for Effective Leadership

Scrum.org

Let's explore the ten common sources of resistance and discuss the importance of addressing these challenges to ensure successful leadership and project implementation. Such mistrust can severely undermine the adoption process from its inception. This can undermine the adoption process from the start.

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Develop Better High Performing Teams

ProjectManager.com

As we ease into the new year, many organizations’ executive teams are ramping up hiring for new talent. All these efforts require precise judgment to hire just-in-time talent, using data to make strategic project decisions at a portfolio, program and project level and launching new high performing teams.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. Leadership.

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5 Strategies to Improve Team Productivity on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Wouldn’t life be better if your team were, well, just a little bit more productive? It is possible to create an environment where project team members can be more productive, by creating good habits. But no one is telling you HOW to get your team to adopt new ways of working. What is team productivity?

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How to Manage Better with Transformational Leadership

ProjectManager.com

Transformational leadership is a creative style of leadership that focuses on a continued push towards growth and a rejection of complacency. And that’s what a transformational leader exploits; they lift themselves and their teams to higher levels of achievement. What Is Transformational Leadership? Origins of the Term.

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Authenticity: How Authentic Leadership Reshapes Organizational Culture in Project Management

The IIL Blog

As you reflect, have you experienced a leader who truly knows themselves, stands firm on their morals, and genuinely understands their team? The era of robotic, detached leadership is fading, and in its place, a more genuine approach is emerging — poised to reshape organizational cultures. Key Takeaways Authentic Leadership Matters.

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5 Leadership Assessment Tools You Need to Try

ProjectManager.com

Leadership might be hard to define, but it’s easy to recognize. Leaders know that to lead they must keep up their leadership skills. But leadership isn’t only about inspiring others, it’s about knowing oneself. There are personality types, and there are leadership skills: it’s not one size fits all. Both take work.