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10 Free Project Management Templates

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I know you love free project management templates. Here are 10 of the most-clicked free templates from this site. Enjoy! Project initiation templates. How to take over an existing project with free checklist. 9 Essential project management documents with free templates : This is a bumper guide to the most important documents you need for managing your projects.

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What should I do if my project gets impacted by the Great Resignation?

Kiron Bondale

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve likely run into the term the “Great Resignation” If you work for a mid to large-sized company, chances are at least a few of your staff have decided to exit stage left and only rarely will these departures not cause some business impacts. So what should you do if you are managing a project and discover that one or more of your team members will be departing prematurely?

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Training Team Members & Stakeholders: 8 Vital Disciplines to Ensure they’re Well Trained

Online PM Courses

Project Managers don't often think about training. Yet, it's part of your responsibility to ensure team members and stakeholders are trained. The post Training Team Members & Stakeholders: 8 Vital Disciplines to Ensure they’re Well Trained appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Effective Stakeholder Engagement – PMBOK 3.3

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“Engage stakeholders proactively and to the degree needed to contribute to project success and customer satisfaction.” PMBOK pg. 31. Let me tell you a story about why I hammer on stakeholder engagement when mentoring new PM’s. It was to be the biggest, most impactful project I’d taken lead at that point in my career. We were embarking on a roughly $4M development project, rewriting a popular software application used by thousands.

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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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Why write

Lynne Cazaly

Because I want to get ideas out of my head. Because I enjoy the process of thinking and creating. Because words are an accessible way to support people. Because I want to ensure there is a greater record of women’s thinking in history. Aha! This one snags at me. Too many quotes in history are from men: Albert Einstein, Henry Ford and his faster horses, Steve Jobs.

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Would you work in a tent

Lynne Cazaly

Leave a door open and someone may scold us with, ‘Were you born in a tent? Close the door!’ Tents and forts made from blankets and furniture are a playful memory from many childhoods. And while there are pro and anti camping camps out there (you know, ‘I don’t do camping/We only do glamping’) there’s an interesting use of tents that’s popping up.

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Are you slicing too thickly

Lynne Cazaly

At the bakery today they asked me if I wanted the loaf of bread sliced for sandwiches (thinner) or toast (thicker). OR a new thickness, ‘cafe style’ It’s big, chunky, super thick slices! We may think in a maximising super-sizing more-is-better way, that thicker is indeed better. But when it comes to work, almost none of us are slicing thinly enough.

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Choose to challenge

Lynne Cazaly

Offer an alternative Present another perspective Share your opinion Show the data Tell your story Explain another's experience Deliver the voice of the customer Show the consequences Point to the reason why Ask a curious question Ask a probing question Ask a difficult question. there are many ways to challenge.

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Connecting deeper. remotely

Lynne Cazaly

In these hybrid times when people may be here, there and anywhere, there’s a danger we miss the good quality, deep connections. Not the login type of connection - nor the break the ice chit-chat connection. But rather, the deeper ability to engage with people, to bring warmth, humanity and empathy to an online call with a remote team. To say ‘it’s not the same as face to face’ or ‘it’s hard to read cues and body language’ is to try to use the same techni

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

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 expendi

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12 insights on how workplaces are changing

Lynne Cazaly

Traditional workplaces are changing. And we have to change with the change! Check out these 12 insights from Harvard Business School faculty members like Amy Edmondson, Tsedal Neeley, Raffaella Sadun and more. Whether you agree with them all or not, they show the scope and extent of how workplaces are changing. Here’s the 12 : 1 Prioritise face time at the office 2 Have honest conversations with employees 3 Weigh the risks of loneliness 4 Consider a flexible hybrid approach 5 Be honest abo

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