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How to Prioritize Tasks With Personal Kanban Boards

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If you’re using a physical personal kanban board, then wallpaper the room with Post-Its if you have to. I just have half an hour” and “Which tasks are the most pressing?” You can also create a separate backlog column for any tasks that come to mind, which you can then evaluate, prioritize and move to the “to-do” column.

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Keeping up to date: the value of training

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Industry press: do you even read your industry press? Put project management aside and read the press related to your company’s main focus: insurance, law, construction, whatever. Many online publications have forums, and you can get training and development hints from the experts who haunt those virtual coffee rooms.

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Clarifying Misconceptions of the Big Launch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Airbnb allows users to rent out everything from an extra room to a separate home. This allowed LinkedIn to present the value of its platform and the LinkedIn experience to the press as something much more concrete. “That’s where they’re going [to] stay: They’re going [to] stay at Airbnb homes.” Excerpted with permission by St.

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7 Health tips for remote workers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Yes, there is a drive to get more people back in the office: the great power shift is seeing the presence of more and more employees being requested back in the office, but spending at least some of your week in the spare room or at the kitchen table is here to stay. Healthy habits are easier to follow if they are routine.

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The Best Meeting Minutes Transcription Software: An Independent Test and Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Press record on the app, and the software listens, transcribes and then gives you the meeting minutes draft. I looked for software that did in-person transcription of meetings i.e. where all participants are in the room. Each participant in the room needs the app on their phone. But – ta da! But how well do they really work?

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How To Deal With Gossip At Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Get people in a room to discuss what’s standing in the way. She is the author of four business and financial books including Make Your SHIFT: The Five Most Powerful Moves You Can Make to Get Where YOU Want to Go (ATA Press, 2012). How can project managers work with their teams to stop time-wasting, negative gossip?

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Eisenhower Matrix: Identifying Important vs. Urgent Tasks

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Important/Not Urgent These are tasks that help to achieve the project’s goals but don’t have a pressing deadline, therefore they can be done later. Leave enough room for you to add tasks to each of those quadrants and try to limit the amount you add to each quadrant to no more than eight. This is the secret of successful scheduling.