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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2023

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Related: Mastering the Decision-Making Process: A Practical Guide. Energy: Regular exercise does not just build up your physical stamina, but affords an opportunity to shift mental gears and detach from the stressful concerns of your workplace. And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There was a process to do: filling in a stakeholder register and plotting someone’s interest and influence over the project on a matrix. 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.

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Business Forecasting: Why You Need It & How to Do It

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Every decision, each process they engage in, has been based on some manner of forecasting to support it. Companies focus their energies on ways to predict outcomes in order to help them set successful long-term strategies. Organizations don’t fly by the seat of their pants: they’re constantly working on forecasting the future.

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3 Ways Most People Will Fail at Remote Work in 2021 (And How to Avoid Them!)

The Lazy Project Manager

Regardless, as Forbes Magazine recently reported, remote work is not something we can leave behind in 2020. We all know how annoying and sometimes embarrassing it is to disturb your colleagues at their desks and ask them for help in finding information or resending a file, but the process is even more burdensome in the remote work world.

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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2019

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Related: Mastering the Decision-Making Process: A Practical Guide. Energy: Regular exercise does not just build up your physical stamina, but affords an opportunity to shift mental gears and detach from the stressful concerns of your workplace. And you cannot even read a decent professional magazine in that time.

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10 Ways To Increase Productivity In Your Marketing Department

Proofhub

Establish Set Processes Most marketing departments follow set processes, whether they are documented or not. It also makes it simple to identify areas of the process which can be improved to increase productivity. Ensure clear distribution of job responsibilities in one place with smart task management of ProofHub.

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We Asked, You Answered: Your Top Project Management Visibility Issues

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Time, effort, and energy is lost without any transparency achieved. The more disciplined your process is for identifying and managing risks, the better prepared your team will be to adapt to change. For example, if your average cycle time was going up, this was an indicator that the team process was slowed down and had delays.