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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Her leadership and guidance is of paramount importance during planning and execution. Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions.

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7 Most Important Leadership Behaviors for Female Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

While I was researching my book, Customer-Centric Project Management , I came across a piece of research in the Project Management Journal about women’s leadership skills. Most important leadership behaviors for project managers. Leadership has a huge effect on projects. 5 Least used behaviors by female project managers.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

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All project team members must do everything they can to manage uncertainty within their sphere of influence. Www.irmi.com, July 2007, www.irmi.com/articles/expert-commentary/risk-management-practices-cannot-be-bolted-on. At a minimum, this should manifest as revised completion forecasts. Layton, Mark. Accessed 15 May 2022. ³

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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. During the 1990s, PMI tripled its membership to 90,000 in 120 countries, under the leadership of then president Virgil R. The Project Management Institute also sets the standard for ethics in the field. Quick Facts About PMI.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

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We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership. As we saw in the previous articles about Emotional Intelligence (EQ), leadership is built on top of EQ.

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Communication Skills for Project Managers | The Best Books

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How to influence and persuade others, and win arguments. The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change. No serious project manager should be ignorant of the range of stakeholder analysis tools, how to plan your communication campaign, and the fundamentals of influence at all levels.

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Servant Leadership – It Works

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Why Servant Leadership Works. Magazine, is a big fan of servant leadership, based upon what his decades of research on what he calls “high-performing” companies – Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods, Best Buy, UPS, and more. Successful leadership is built around the behaviors that leaders model for their subordinates.