Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Jo Ann Sweeney Why should project teams invest resources in communication activities is a question I’m often asked – both from people who are not convinced of the value, and also from those looking for the words to use with their leadership team. This helps enormously in change teams that don’t have huge amounts of time and energy.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 22, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part two of this four-part series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see article one that explains leadership for project managers and outlines the five leadership components covered in the series.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 28, 2020

We’ve selected the best recommendations of eminent sources for you to boost your knowledge and advance your leadership skills. In this paper, Nancy Duarte looks at today’s crisis as a challenge to improve your leadership style and help your employees become more engaged and motivated. Are you working in the office or from home now?

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

If you ever find yourself wanting to inject some energy into a cross-functional gathering of delivery staff and stakeholders, ask for their opinion on estimates. While it might be the most pragmatic way of handling things, few teams have the support from leadership, customers and governance authorities to work in this manner.

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nTask

AUGUST 6, 2019

Leadership has a very broad scope when we talk about leadership styles examples. There are over ten different leadership styles, and one style just doesn’t suit a specific organization. Leadership in that sense is complex. In other situations, few leadership styles examples point to folks who lead by transactions.

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Proofhub

DECEMBER 22, 2020

So, what impacts does the digital transformation have on leadership strategies? Before delving deeper in understanding how digital transformation can affect leadership strategies , it would be a good idea to first understand what this entire concept entails. We find the answer to this and more in this post. Optimized operations?—?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Peter speaking at the APM Rethinking Leadership conference. At the same time I identified some lessons for leadership styles for project management. Without going into the touchy feely aspects of emotional response, I draw out some lessons in leadership styles and behaviors below which I found to be at root cause. The project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2024

This is a good one if you want to work in energy, utilities, construction and engineering as those industries tend to have more need for people with project controls job titles than, say, marketing. Perfect if you want to manage more project complexity or explore other project management roles like project management office leadership.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you feeling the limitations of traditional leadership within your project management role? This is the power of servant leadership, a transformative philosophy that prioritizes serving others at the forefront of organizational leadership. Explore the world of servant leadership.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2023. Get instant access to 10 high quality webinars on leadership and specialist topics to help you earn the difficult 'Power Skills' PDUs. You’re in the right place!

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article is a follow-up post to “ Agile is Dead.” ❌ Scarcity Trap: because non-Agile activities are stuck in the Rigidity Trap (which consumes time, energy, and focus), organizations also don't have time for activities that would make them truly Agile. Servant leadership, anyone? Instead of being dead, it's evolving.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see articles one , two , and three , which cover topics including how leadership differs from management, servant leadership, and team motivation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Do You Choose a “Bullying” Leadership Style? Workplace Bullying – The Leadership Style Test.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Invest time and energy with a coach or mentor to keep you on track. Read the whole article with Pam Shergill here. #6: 10: Grow Your Leadership Skills. Regardless of whether you have the title of “leader” or “manager”, “planner” or “administrator” we all understand that leadership capabilities are useful to your role.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2022

This article was inspired by Ben Snyder’s book, Everything’s a Project: 70 Lessons from Successful Project-Driven Organizations. No it’s not that) or I’m such a paragon of leadership (ha! You don’t have the time or the energy to carry someone along for the ride. How can I deal with a team member with a bad attitude?

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Paymo App

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Suppose you’re a project manager and have all your ducks in a row: sufficient industry experience, a PMP accredited certification, and a handful of successfully delivered projects that recommend you for a leadership position. Don’t worry, you’re not going to read about a set of leadership skills. The road to project leadership.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. It’s just three articles like this, per week. That is, after all, just an hour a month.

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Velociteach

APRIL 27, 2023

If it’s time for you to conduct an honest assessment of your leadership style to connect better with your teams and understand your stakeholders more effectively, take a listen to hear how to connect, then lead. Let’s jump into talking leadership and talking communication. Those are two very different leadership terms.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 22, 2023

In this article I’ll share 15 easy ways to develop professionally. Being surrounded by so much positive energy and so many amazing speakers is a great opportunity for me and it always leaves me feeling so happy about the line of work I have chosen. It’s a good way to build your leadership skills and to make new connections.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton, who is the well-known author and trainer behind Online PM Courses.*. A new project manager, like any other, needs to focus their energies on these four things, in that order. This means giving leadership and support, guiding and developing them, and allocating work wisely.

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Teamweek

JULY 12, 2023

To help you assess leadership candidates more effectively, identify their strengths, and ensure you choose the right one to take your organization to new heights, let’s explore 10 tips to evaluate leadership skills when hiring. Great leaders can have different leadership styles. What are leadership skills?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this article we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2020. Leadership and Strategic and Business Management PDUs count for every certification you hold. You’re in the right place! Education PDUs. Maximum Requirements.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In this article, we will explore why this happens and what it takes for PMOs to become strategic enablers. For instance, strategic risk management can help you invest your precious time, money, resources and energy where it counts most. PMOs Have Gone to the Dogs PMOs are started with the best of intentions.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 7, 2022

, over the past two years, he has taught me a few lessons in leadership and project management which are worth sharing. This gives him the ability to give 100% of his energy when something catches his attention. Don’t squander opportunities to rest. Remember that you will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

It elevates our own behavior so that we demonstrate leadership, motivation, coaching, influencing, teaching. There’s no point investing more energy in that right now if you aren’t seeing the benefits. A version of this article first appeared in the APM’s Project Magazine in 2020. Pin for later reading.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

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. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Is yours helping or just taking up energy and space?

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Online PM Courses

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Team Leadership itself is not hard. So, these pressures can mount up and suck the energy out of you. In this article, I want to hone down to the four essentials of project team leadership. The Four Essentials of Project Team Leadership. Leadership isn’t something you are born with, like brown eyes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

Most organisations don’t really provide the necessary ammo apart from a few onboarding formalities and cursory ‘knowledge transfers’ More often than not, hardworking and talented people with stellar individual contributions are given leadership roles. Modern organisations and the leadership gap.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

2) Energy Management You may be familiar with the simple AI-driven energy management systems used to optimise energy usage for computers and other smart devices. A growing number of power grids are, likewise, being managed with AI to provide entire regions with improved energy efficiency.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity. Under Nadella’s leadership, Microsoft invested heavily in cloud computing and AI, areas that were rapidly evolving but not yet fully capitalized upon.

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2023

This article describes an A-type ecosystem for (software) product development, the prevalent dynamics in it, and the solutions to improve performance using Org Topologies™ mapping. Managers should not waste energy trying to optimize the existing system. Managers should not waste energy trying to optimize the existing system.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Safeguarding our emotional and mental health and that of our teams has to be up there as a trend for the forward-thinking leadership team. What you can do.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

This is the final article of this series, and I'm posting it now on Scrum.org because. And now in these four articles. They had multiple trainings and coaches come over to help, both for the teams, the leadership, and their stakeholders. It’s also low energy. It’s also high energy. I forgot to do it earlier.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This article, Bridging the PM Competency Gap [Book Review] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Possibly not, if you have the time and energy to do all the legwork yourself. As with many project managers in leadership roles, I have other responsibilities in my day. Do your colleagues – especially the newer ones?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2019

Courageous Leadership. Given the prevalence of disruption, my first priority has to be exemplary leadership. I don’t think you’ll find many countries today where there is a consensus that national leadership fits this description. It’s just three articles like this, per week. That is, after all, just an hour a month.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. As the year winds down, let’s take a moment to reflect on our approach to leadership. The memories of training came flooding back: the early mornings, long roads, discipline, and above all, the invaluable rest days. Sign up here!

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Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2022

At the Sprint Retrospective, the team talks about how to improve how they work together, which is another way of saying that they talk about how to stop wasting time and energy on low-value work, conflict, or inefficient processes. Professional Agile Leadership. It saves time by eliminating waste. Professional Scrum Master .

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