Fri.May 13, 2016

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How to Look Backward and Forward at Your Risks

Project Risk Coach

Project managers may fail to achieve their project objectives because they don’t know how to take a look backward and forward at their risks. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Some project managers only look backward. If we only look backward, we will miss opportunities that lie before us, and we will likely be blindsided by threats.

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Are You A Workplace Bully?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Paul Pelletier. Project managers establish and foster workplace behaviour expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. That leads to two clear choices: do you commit to a positive, respectful model for workplace culture or a disrespectful, bullying model?

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What We Can Do

The Tao of Project Management

Just to re-cap, I am taking a deeper look into what we can do to prevent projects going wrong. But let's start with the reason why projects fail. Why Projects Fail I covered this in a post in June 2015 but I need to add one bit of clarification on project failure. Stopping a project that is in danger of going badly wrong or failing is not a project failure, it is good project management.

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