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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Companies tend to adopt a project management method such as PRINCE2® to ensure that everyone works to the same framework. Leadership skills are also crucial for project management – but so often overlooked or taken for granted. Leadership without Project Management. Project Management without Leadership.

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9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

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Article Contributor: Susanne Madsen is a Project Management Leadership Coach, and author of The Project Management Coaching Workbook (2012) and The Power of Project Leadership (2015). She is a PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner and a qualified Corporate and Executive Coach.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). Senior leadership is always interested in how much money has been spent! Budget position. Action updates.

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What Is a PMO? (Infographic)

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Project management is a discipline loaded with acronyms: PMP, PRINCE2, CPM, WBS, PMBOK, PMI… and about 150 others. The percentage of project managers who report to the PMO increased from 42% in 2012 to 52% in 2016. 61%: Leadership Training. What is PMO?” you might ask. PMO stands for “project management office.”

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Top 10 Books on Change Management (2023 edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leading Change (2012) is a comprehensive guide to his 8-step process for managing change. Aimed at people doing change management in a leadership role (aren’t we all?), It’s essential reading if you are studying change or organizational leadership. Was I inspired to put the ideas into practice? Professor John P.

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

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3% use PRINCE2. [4]. 17% say the leadership of certified Project Managers. Number of companies with a PMO has grown from 47% to 80% from 2000-2012. PricewaterhouseCoopers: Insights and Trends: Current Programme and Project Management Practices 2012. Popular Methodologies: 41% use PMBoK. 9% use an IT methodology.

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Goleman Leadership Styles in the Movies: Avengers Assemble

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Project Management guides often refer to six different leadership styles from Daniel Goleman’s 2000 article, “Leadership That Gets Results”. We could list and define these, like many before us, but we thought it’d be much more worthwhile (and fun) to take leadership to the movies. Iron Man – The Pace-Setter. Hulk – The General.