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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Objective: Develop listening skills.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And what are the weak points? As I said, PRINCE2 doesn’t cover working with people and as team management and getting the best out of the people is what we all do every day, this seems like a big oversight on the part of PRINCE2, especially as project boards form such a critical part of the standard. Is there something like PMI’s PDUs?

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Innovation: Running Experiments and Learning

Leading Answers

Within agile frameworks, the team retrospective is the primary workshop for planning and evaluating experiments. Yet most team retrospectives I see are broken. Teams spend too much time recording viewpoints and information—but not enough time reviewing or planning experiments. This is a more useful format.

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Poisoning the well: Why micromanagement is bad for business

Runrun.it

One might even hazard to say that tolerating micromanagement can run the risk of the company eventually failing due to high staff turnovers, lack of talent retention, poor productivity, poor creativity, and the like. Causes poor communication all throughout the organization.

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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

Hearing a senior executive announce "We're committed to becoming agile!" In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. Time, after all, is money.

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The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work

Traxidy

With a waterfall or hybrid approach, the project scope and schedule to be executed, are what has been approved by the sponsor. However, despite starting with what seems like a flawless plan, during the project’s execution, unforeseen situations inevitably arise. Why would project management involve any unplanned work?

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Episode 191 – Mastering Power Skills for Exceptional Performance

Velociteach

Foundational power skills encompass soft skills, behavioral competencies, and personality traits essential for leaders, aspiring leaders, and team members alike. We’re talking with someone who is well known and loved by all the Velociteach team. He has developed 20 online products through Velociteach. This is Neal Whitten.