International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see articles one , two , and three , which cover topics including how leadership differs from management, servant leadership, and team motivation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 2, 2023

There are strategies you can use to help you streamline your projects and combine work across stakeholders and teams. Let’s talk about strategies for how to tell your boss that you’ve maxed out your workload. I’ve done this exercise with many people and it’s always eye-opening. You’ve got so many balls in the air.

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Wrike

JULY 23, 2023

Leadership is a complex task that requires adaptability and a contingency approach. Leaders must not only possess a solid foundation of leadership skills, but also be able to navigate through uncertainties and effectively respond to changing circumstances.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Everything, with servant-leadership as the foundational mindset and attitude. How to show servant-leadership and ‘read the room’ when you’re not physically present with the team? So we offer experiments, practices, and strategies that we used in different contexts and think are worth trying as a Scrum Master, working remotely.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the various strategies to boost work performance and elevate productivity both at an individual and team level. Identifying Factors that Affect Work Performance Before implementing strategies to enhance productivity, it is crucial to identify the factors that influence work performance.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of project management, effective leadership is a crucial factor in achieving the success of any endeavor. One leadership theory that has gained traction in recent years is the Situational Leadership Theory. Directing: Appropriate when team members are low on both competence and commitment.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2023

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. What type of PDUs do you need?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Whether you are an employee, a manager, or a business owner, finding effective strategies to enhance productivity can significantly impact your performance and the overall success of your organization. Here are a couple of strategies to mitigate stress and enhance productivity: Implement stress management programs.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

In this article, we will explore the importance of employee productivity, identify the factors that influence it, and discuss proven strategies to boost employee productivity. We will also highlight the role of leadership and the effective use of technology in improving productivity.

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Planio

MAY 2, 2018

As the authors of The Strategy-Focused Organization found , a mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal setting is a serious problem.

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 27, 2016

After a simple analysis exercise (considering relationship and agreement) it then comes down to developing an influencing strategy. If people are against you, make sure you’ve got something in your strategy to at least remove the risk they pose to your influencing goal. Maybe stating the obvious. Accelerate Progress.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The need for a business case is that it collects the proposal, outline, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Compile the data and present your strategies, goals and options. Marketing strategy. Compare and finalize your approaches. Financial plan.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sifting through bad-fit applications is a tiring process – but it doesn’t need to be with the right talent assessment strategy and a few skills tests. So, how do you create a bulletproof talent assessment strategy from scratch? 10 Benefits of creating an effective talent assessment strategy And that’s not all.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jeff Patton presents a practical approach, guiding you through story lifecycles and offering exercises for quick understanding. The book allows its reader to explore high-level concepts, story lifecycles, and effective preparation and implementation strategies. The Minimum Viable Library — Leadership Edition.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The mission statement should be easy to understand and should be aligned with the organization’s strategy. Support faculty, staff, students and the UMW community as a source for project management leadership and expertise. In one company, a team of leaders self-nominated themselves to take part in the exercise.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Understanding Business Continuity Management Business Continuity Management is a comprehensive approach that enables organizations to identify potential risks, develop strategies to mitigate them, and establish processes to ensure the swift recovery of critical functions in the event of a disruption.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 24, 2020

They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. Rather, they simply were unaware of new strategies, processes, and projects. What must we do? Lead by example. These people have no evil intent.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 17, 2020

Team building exercises are a fantastic way to build that essential esprit de corps , even when you’re not sharing the same physical space. Telecommuters can easily begin to feel isolated from their colleagues and their leadership. Team Building. Best of all, these meetings don’t just have to be about providing status updates only.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

The need for a business case is that it collects the financial appraisal, proposal, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Marketing Strategy. Business Case Template.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2021

One of the best ways to acclimate Leaders to a new Agile product development environment is through participation in the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class. I love the Professional Agile Leadership - Essentials (PAL-E) class because this course is all about helping leadership understand how best to support Agile teams.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Justify investing in technical excellence to the leadership by demonstrating the long-term cost savings and increased speed of future feature development due to a more robust and flexible codebase. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2020

Team-building exercises help, but even under the best circumstances, there will be challenges. The first thing to do is make sure that everyone is on board with the decision to go remote—most importantly, the leadership team. To do so, you have to see virtual teams as part of a strategy that provides a competitive advantage.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For CAPM certification renewal, you need: a minimum of 9 Education PDUs including two in each Talent Triangle area: Leadership, Technical and Strategic and Business Management a maximum of 6 Giving Back PDUs with a maximum of 2 for working as a professional and 4 for volunteering and creating knowledge. It’s going to be easy, trust me.

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Runrun.it

JUNE 30, 2023

If one were to ask what might separate a boss and a leader (both get things done, after all) then it can be answered simply with – “leadership soft skills.” Unfortunately, business schools also tend to look the other way when it comes to leadership soft skills, preferring the comfort of hard, measurable ones involving facts and numbers.

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nTask

JUNE 25, 2019

Eventually, it comes down to the following approach: Strategic Leadership. Although leadership and management are arguably switchable roles, the usual chain of command goes from top to bottom. Leadership and Project Management Is a Two Faced Coin: When I say it is a two-faced coin, the emphasis is on the correlation factor.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context. Often the root of the problem lies in insufficient leadership or in the unavailability or poor quality of resources provided. Consequently, these must be kept as low as possible.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The book provides strategies for reclaiming your collaboration time and making it more relevant and productive by Building a network and real connections and energizing others. The collaboration effort itself is unproductive because often the individuals involved haven’t had any training on how to facilitate well.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 5, 2023

Suitable answers: Candidates should share specific examples of strategies they’ve used and challenges they’ve overcome. I worked closely with leadership to help them understand and support the benefits of an Agile transformation.” What did you do to “work closely with leadership?”

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Scrum.org

JULY 17, 2023

When things are challenging, you see the effects of tremendous and terrible leadership up close. Outstanding leadership is the cornerstone of any thriving Agile environment. In essence, effective Agile leadership is the bedrock upon which the principles of Agile can flourish.

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Binfire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Today, let’s dive into the importance of creating a culture of fitness in the workplace and discuss practical strategies to encourage employees to prioritize their health. Set an Example From the Top Effective leadership means being a role model for healthy behavior and promoting work-life balance.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 18, 2020

Basic project management skills that could significantly help founders and owners of startups and small businesses include defining goals, setting strategy, devising a plan and outlining actions, and then weekly prioritizing and tracking actions through to completion. But you can’t be a great leader unless you can communicate with people.

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MPUG

JANUARY 27, 2020

Here are some tips and strategies for preparing for and managing conflict as a project manager. Though this may make introverts cringe, team-building events/exercises are a good way to establish a friendly rapport between the whole team. He was what you might call “conflict-averse.” Define Expected Behavior.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Scrum defines some boundaries for the exercise of figuring out Scrum Teams. While the Scrum Guide does not explicitly talk about anyone outside of the Scrum Team, Scrum assumes organizational leadership and support. . That success relies on the right culture/environment which requires partnership with Leadership. . Stakeholders.

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Leading Answers

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This is the first in a multi-post series about emotional intelligence (EI) as the foundation for team leadership. Leadership and EI work together to create cohesive, cooperative teams. For this reason, we will start with EI (which starts with ourselves) and then work up to powering the leadership engine.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product Ownership is a leadership position in the first place. Consequently, support your Scrum team on its path to fully embrace Scrum, namely self-management, as the entrepreneur level is focused on product leadership. Invite users to collaborative exercises, for example, user story mapping, etc.

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Project Bliss

AUGUST 8, 2021

These strategies and tools will help you manage multiple projects with confidence and poise. 9 Strategies to Successfully Manage Multiple Projects. The following 9 strategies will help you manage multiple projects, stay sane, satisfy stakeholders, and deliver solutions to happy customers. Individual projects have challenges.

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