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How to Be a Project Management Consultant

ProjectManager.com

Project management consultants don’t only add value to a project, but they can help introduce project management processes to any team. What Is a Project Management Consultant? What Is a Project Management Consultant? A project management consultant gives expert advice to their client.

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Scrum's Role in Leadership Decisions: A Clarification

Scrum.org

Navigating the world of Scrum, I've often encountered a recurring question: How does Scrum assist leadership teams in selecting the most valuable work? That responsibility, my friends, rests with the leadership. It aids in moulding teams of professionals who can rally around the leadership's choices and bring them to fruition.

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Susanne Madsen on Project Leadership [Interview]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When I read Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power of Project Leadership. Often we think that leadership is about character and attitude (read my take on the traits of good leaders here ) and forget that you can actually practice being a better leader by coaching yourself in the right behaviors. I was struck by how practical it was.

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Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap

Scrum.org

Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap. Smart leaders send their management teams on Agile training courses and leadership courses only to find that the learning doesn’t translate into action and therefore improvement. We enable senior leadership teams to figure out how to operate as one team.

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

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In my book The Power of Project Leadership , I explain that every time the global economy goes through a recession, jobs disappear, and workers are expected to deliver more with less. Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer and consultant.

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5 Leadership Assessment Tools You Need to Try

ProjectManager.com

Leadership might be hard to define, but it’s easy to recognize. Leaders know that to lead they must keep up their leadership skills. But leadership isn’t only about inspiring others, it’s about knowing oneself. But leadership isn’t only about inspiring others, it’s about knowing oneself. Both take work.

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Building an Effective Agile Transformation Consultant Team

Leading Agile

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization. Agile Transformation Consultant: Team Attributes. Experience.

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