Countering Social Loafing as a Project Manager
Working in teams has become part of the daily fabric of work in professional environments today. Does the effect of social loafing mean that we are …
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Experience Bias in Project Management
Experience bias involves overextending the lessons learned from our experiences.This article focuses on how to most effectively apply and how to avoid …
Continue ReadingHow to Motivate Project Team Members
Many things motivate people, but we often think of financial motivators first. However, the opportunity to do something that matters, to help people …
Continue ReadingOvercoming Availability Bias in Project Management
In a world awash with information, it is a challenge to distinguish between the useful and useless, the relevant and irrelevant, the complete picture …
Continue Reading4 Key Leadership Styles for Project Managers
What is your leadership style? This is a personal question – and not one that has a right or wrong answer. Learn about the four top leadership styles …
Continue ReadingHow Innovative Leaders Overcome Brick Walls
Sometimes we are doing all the right things, but things are just not clicking. Leaders bump into this situation: the proverbial brick wall. What can …
Continue ReadingMust-Have Characteristics for Leaders in Project Management
What does it take to be an effective leader? I learned three essentials in an “aha!” moment when someone distilled it down to the simplest terms that …
Continue ReadingOne Quality Every Effective Leader Must Have
There is a common thread between Donald Trump and Barack Obama, or between Mahatma Gandhi and Jeff Bezos; between Mother Theresa and Al Capone. Learn …
Continue ReadingMaking the Most of the Pareto Principle in Project Management
80:20 thinking is not just a once and done thing. You can apply it over and over again at multiple levels, a bit like peeling an onion. It is at these …
Continue ReadingProject Management Prioritization Using the Pareto Principle
It’s easy to imagine how you can use 80:20 thinking to prioritize. How can you leverage 80:20 thinking to manage not only what matters most, but also …
Continue ReadingUsing 80:20 Thinking to Be More Effective in Project Management
The 80:20 rule applies in virtually every situation in the universe. It’s very useful to identify the 20 percent and the 80 percent, but what do you …
Continue ReadingUsing the Pareto Principal to Find Work-Life Balance
Using this alternative 80:20 thinking, you make an acceptable compromise with yourself and make a trade-off between approaching things one way versus …
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