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Seven Secret Tricks To Turn “SLUGGISH” Employees Into A Productive Workforce

Proofhub

Source: [link] “The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing could be done.”?—? Bill Crawford With all due respect to employers around the world, employees can’t perform like a workhorse running on Energizer batteries all the time. I know productivity is the key word (or maybe it’s the only word) in almost all employees’ dictionaries.

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Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust

Leading Agile

When you no longer work with an employee, you often become friends. This was a conversation with my friend Matt about his new role as a software leader in a billion-dollar organization. Hi Matt, Congratulations on your new role as a leader in a technology organization, I am glad I could connect you to the role. It is my goal that this email can assist you at a high level of discovering and visualizing the changes that need to be made and providing a high-level approach to technical remediation w

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Epicflow Spring Updates: Task Completion, Personal Task List, Booking ID, Multi Assignment, Timesheet Filters, and more

Epicflow Blog

We at Epicflow are guided by researchers who have been in project management for more than 20 years and get inspired by our clients for creating new features and implementing improvements. We strive to advance our product not just to be the best in the market, but to bring the best services possible to our clients and create an absolutely new approach to project orchestration: without any stress, urgent tasks, and rush.

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The Agile Work Environment: What You Need to Know

nTask

You have probably heard of the term Agile. And if you are in the project management or development industry the word probably means more to you than simply the ability to move quickly. Agile methodology has gained popularity over the years and chances are that you stumbling onto this article is because your organization also implements some form of the methodology.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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The Platinum Rule: Treating Employees How they Want to be Treated

Proofhub

We’ve all heard of the Golden Rule?—?do unto others as you would have them do to you. Since we were children, we’ve been taught that this is the absolute best way to ensure that your actions are considerate and helpful within your relationships. However, the Golden Rule has its limitations. It may not be as universal as we might have grown up thinking it is.

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Talent coaching is seen as critical for personal development, internal visibility and networking

Susanne Madsen

Karine Mangion-Thornley is an executive coach and Senior Lecturer at Regent’s University in London, where she lectures in International Business, Global Management and Organisational Behaviour. She recently completed her PhD in the role that coaching plays in talent management. In this interview she shares her insights from the research she undertook.

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Projects are life: Terri Tidwell

Sitetracker

“A CFO goes to their CEO and asks, “what if we train our employees and they leave?” The CEO responds, “what if we don’t and they stay?” About Terri Tidwell: Terri Tidwell is a Director of Project Controls for SQUAN’s engineering division. Having grown up with both parents working in the telecom industry, Terri got her foot in the industry’s door as a manual drafter.

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A Quick Guide to Action Items & Action Item Lists

ProjectManager.com

More likely than not, you have created an action item without realizing it. If you’ve ever written a to-do list, you’ve made yourself a set of action items—errands to run, household chores to complete, people to contact, etc. Managing large-scale projects is a much more complicated process, and it calls for a sophisticated system of creating, assigning and tracking action items.

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What Is Talent Acquisition and How To Do It Well

Teamweek

Ask any business leader the most important part of a successful business, and many will tell you it’s the people that matter most. Whilst most people know what recruitment is, ask someone “what is talent acquisition?” and you may not get a clear answer. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what talent acquisition is, the core process, and some top hiring software benefits to set you up.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Do we really need SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, or Nexus to be agile?

Agilemania

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. There are numerous frameworks those claim to solve or provide solutions for agility at scale. Do they all retain core values even at scale? Let’s try exploring what do they offer.

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Do we really need SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, or Nexus to be agile?

Agilemania

Agility at scale topics appears in most of the conversation nowadays, either to solve multiple teams coordination issues working on the same initiative, in the name of business agility, or enterprise agility. There are numerous frameworks those claim to solve or provide solutions for agility at scale. Do they all retain core values even at scale? Let’s try exploring what do they offer.

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