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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. The course model stated that without trust, influence is almost impossible. She likes detail and to be aware of all project issues and risks. A version of this article first appeared in 2016.

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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Identifying and Managing Project Risk (4 th Ed) Author: Tom Kendrick. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a big read at over 300 pages. There are some sections in it that cover enterprise risk management which you could justifiably claim in the Business Acumen section. PDU claim: 8 hours. PDU claim: 2 hours.

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How To Mitigate Risks With an Effective ERM Framework

Wrike

Similarly, for any organization looking to succeed and flourish, the solution lies in having an effective risk management process at the ready. This comes in the form of an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework, which involves mitigating risks before they wreak havoc on your company.

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Are You A Workplace Bully?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Risks of Being A Workplace Bully. Do you really understand the risks of leading with bullying tactics? Whether project managers are bullies themselves or promote organizational influencers that are, the risks are high. You don’t have to look far to find examples that support my perspective.

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

could simplify creating the project schedule and documenting underlying assumptions, constraints, and risks. Notes from Listen.bot Taking meeting minutes, publishing them, and updating the issues, risks, and action item logs is pure drudgery. The risk register could be automatically generated. hours of documentation effort.

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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We found that the project environment plays a crucial role in creating challenging situations involving stakeholders for project managers and that project managers can often take active measures to influence and improve this. She worked for nearly 10 years in the industry before joining academia in 2016. The structural environment.

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How to Build a Robust Project Risk Culture [8 Steps]

Online PM Courses

A robust risk culture goes beyond having a strong basic risk management process. Some of my readers may hope to influence the risk culture of their whole organization. For you, the right aspiration is to build a positive risk culture within your project. What is Risk Culture? Behaviors and Practices.

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