Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 13, 2022

Noise hinders communication. But it is often something that is overlooked when we are planning communication activities with stakeholders. Noise, in communication terms, means any interference that makes it harder for the stakeholder to firstly receive, then interpret the message and its meaning. Physical noise.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 4, 2021

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2021 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Effective communication is the backbone of any business because it means your team can collaborate with each other, understand customer needs, convey information, and support your credibility as a brand. Here are 5 ways you can improve your communication skills. Each tool has its own communication unwritten rules.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 13, 2022

Dr Jo Griffin from Northeastern University’s Master’s in Project Management program gave some concrete examples of how you can actually use stories as part of your project communications plan at the 2015 PMI Global Congress EMEA. Here are 3 ways you can use story telling at work to get your message across. Next steps.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2023

This time we will discuss how to build an effective stakeholder communication strategy. As not all stakeholders are the same, the product owner or manager needs to communicate with them differently as well. What Is Stakeholder Communication Strategy A communication strategy is our plan that outlines how we will communicate.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Communication is about 80% of my job. These are the tips and tricks I use to communicate with my stakeholders and project customers. This spills over into how I work with and communicate with clients. I do use Slack for project management on a daily basis, as it’s a good way to stay in touch with the team.

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The Lazy Project Manager

JANUARY 13, 2021

Remote work comes with a new etiquette and set of standards for how we communicate, share information, and ultimately, do our jobs. Way Number One: You’re communicating too much… or not enough. Way Number One: You’re communicating too much… or not enough. Here are some communication best practices for adequate sharing.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it goes further, defining the demographics, messaging and other important aspects of the project. As noted, the creative brief gets buy-in from stakeholders, but it’s also a means of communicating what the project is to the creative team, agency or designers that’ll be executing the project. Detail Your Message.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2022 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 17, 2022

It’s no secret that culture can have a big impact on communication. Just think about how much harder it is to communicate with someone from a different country who doesn’t speak your language. But culture can affect communication even when everyone speaks the same language. The basics. Body language.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I remember that a few weeks after I started back at work after maternity leave, one of my long-time stakeholders sent a message to someone pretty high up in the business saying ‘project communication was so much better when Elizabeth was around’. I guess I didn’t do much communicating during those first few weeks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 23, 2022

How to Manage in a Flat World is subtitled 10 strategies to get connected to your team wherever they are. People have fluid relationships with work, as a result of being ‘always on’ and this is even more challenging for people managing international teams – as many of us do these days. The book is divided into two parts.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Whether you’re managing a team of five or a cross-functional group of 150, understanding the human element is paramount. It equips project managers with a profound insight into the minds of their team members and stakeholders. One crucial aspect is understanding the motivations of individuals on your team.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Whether you need to define communication objectives, or identify stakeholders and channels, you can use this communication plan template to schedule project communications and establish a feedback loop that keeps everyone up to date. Download The Free Communications Plan Template: Why You Need a Communication Plan Template.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 6, 2022

She had ruled out emails and wanted another option for communicating (preferably asynchronous) that wouldn’t involve sitting in project meetings. I had a couple of options for how to communicate effectively with her team that I shared with her, and today I’ll share them with you. Create a minimum communication list.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2021

How do you manage to communicate about your project with virtually no marketing budget? We don’t all have big budgets to produce banners, T-shirts and mugs with logos on to share the messages about our projects. If you are still here, then you don’t have a big budget for project communications. Food as a communication tool.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

And I’ll be sharing the five principles of gamification on projects for you to use with your teams. So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. And I will come back to that term, engagification in a moment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instant messaging. I was a late comer to instant messaging, but now a convert. Instant Messaging in Action. The project had a ‘war room’ in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the base for the team. “We Cornelius’ team was using an instant messaging tool to communicate. And there are.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elisa Cepale I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. The meeting happens daily, and the team meets only briefly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 7, 2022

Communication in the workplace is what we all do, day in, day out. Our ability to communicate with colleagues makes the difference between people taking us seriously, doing what we ask (without too much hassling) and our ability to influence others. Here are my suggestions of the best books on communication in the workplace.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 30, 2022

billion people actively use social media to communicate, to share and to build a sense of community. In a parallel universe, some of the key drivers of project management are to communicate, to inform and to develop high performing teams. Communication is considered to be the lifeblood of project management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Whether your project team has adopted a remote working style, or you’re considering the possible benefits and pitfalls (perhaps of going back to office-based working), read on. Below, we’ll go over three of the most important areas to focus on when managing a remote team successfully. Track your team’s progress.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’m particularly interested in the communications between people on projects and regular readers will know that, as I cover it a lot. I wanted to tell you how I run stakeholder communications on my projects (I’ve also covered the ‘how’ of stakeholder comms before ). Communication Strategy #1: Meetings.

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Productivity Land

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Working outside traditional office environments, companies actively seek effective digital communication tools. If you are a small business owner looking for an affordable team collaboration tool, explore these top five alternatives to Slack software. They have much in common with Slack but offer more control over team communication.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Managing teams, no matter their size, is an incredibly complex task. It involves knowing each team member’s skills and workloads and creating a plan to make individuals act as cogs in a larger mechanism. This kind of precision demands the best team management software. 2022 Best Team Management Software Rankings.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 16, 2022

When you are a project manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that you help your team to learn from those mistakes and to find ways to improve the quality of their work. You may not know how to distinguish it from plain criticism, or you may not know how to deliver it in a way that your team members do not receive negatively.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2022

“During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences of the words I used with my team members, customers and other stakeholders,” Bucero said. Choosing the right words to create the right impression of your project can contribute to team morale and project success. ” Alfonso Bucero.

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Inloox

JULY 28, 2022

Axiom 1: You cannot not communicate. Axiom 3: Characterization by punctuation of the communication processes. Improved project communication with Watzlawick's 5 axioms Communication accompanies us in everyday life, in professional and private contexts, in direct, personal interactions with others or online.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 13, 2021

I’ve written previously about my three tests for assessing agility: are we delivering value to our stakeholders early and regularly, are we progressively improving quality, and are we helping our customers, team members and key stakeholders to be awesome. Let’s start with a simple example.

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Planio

MARCH 25, 2024

You can build the best product in the world, but without a solid customer acquisition strategy (and the right team to pull it off), no one will ever use it. But while customer acquisition has traditionally been the focus of sales and marketing teams, the best strategy can’t make up for a subpar product. Content marketing.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2023

Below are the previous articles in the series Stakeholder Exploration Stakeholder Analysis & Mapping Stakeholder Communication Strategy All the above steps are fundamental to having a sound Stakeholder Engagement strategy. Involve other team members. You must inspect and adapt your strategic and tactical communication regularly.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The socials are more than just a way to keep in touch with friends from school or sell stuff: social media used in a business context is about communication and collaboration with purpose, whether with customers or within internal teams. Social media and project communication plans. We work in technologically enlightened times.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

JULY 24, 2023

Communication/Forums Are there discussion forums? Is there a leaderboard for users or teams? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? How are those mass messages crafted? How often is message content updated? Send messages? How big is the anticipated development team?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 14, 2022

This is especially important if the team (or certain members of it) feel the project schedule is unrealistic. If the tweak of a date or two for one team solves the problem across the board, congratulate yourself and work hard to avoid the problem in the future. Can your teams be split into smaller groups? Communication is key.

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Project Bliss

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With remote work here to stay, virtual leadership skills are critical for productive teams. As a virtual team leader, you must develop a leadership style that supports the entire team when working in a virtual setting. Virtual leadership is the “new normal” for remote teams. Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels.

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Ganttic

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Unfortunately, communication planning often takes a back seat, even though it plays a crucial role in project success. To ensure effective communication, it’s essential to develop a well-crafted project communication plan that serves as a guiding blueprint. What is a Project Management Communication Plan?

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TrustRadius Project Management

JANUARY 24, 2023

Although we can all agree that’s the *best* thing they do Let’s take a look at what exactly is included in UCaaS, and what makes it different from other types of communication software. UCaaS stands for unified communications as a service. Messaging and Collaboration The most ubiquitous UCaaS collaboration feature is presence.

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