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7 Reasons Why It is Difficult to Manage New Projects (Or Inherit an Old One)
What makes projects so difficult to manage? As a project manager, you need to assess the culture, your role, your team, how problems escalate, what your responsibilities are and how to tackle edge cases (delays, problematic team members, running out of budget, handling scope creep, disagreeing with a client, etc.) Organizations that use proven project…
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Creating an Employee Performance Review and Feedback Workflow
Resilience is my number 1 hiring trait. As a manager, you will have ups and downs with your employees, and your feedback should reflect this. The relationship with your employees is a journey with its share of triumphs and challenges. Your feedback should mirror this journey, offering both praise and constructive criticism in a timely…
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The 4 P’s of Employee Relations and Conflict Management in the Workplace
Workplace conflict costs $359 billion in paid hours or 385 million working days annually. This is according to the “Workplace Conflict and How Business Can Harness it to Thrive” report. There were news articles about Apple employees having concerns about the ‘rigid’ rules in hybrid working, while Google’s people were frustrated about the ‘two tiers’ remote…
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11 Better Ways to Manage Teams Without Tedious Meetings
As a firm evangelist of the values of asynchronous communications, I’m strongly opinionated when it comes to meetings. Meetings are not all evil. I’ve covered some workarounds for meetings (when necessary) and several reasons to set up a meeting. But beyond that, meeting creep is so prevalent—especially in the context of remote/hybrid environments—that productivity and…
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10 Time Management Strategies for Busy Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is both a state of mind that entails many personal and professional traits and a way of life that requires a lot of balance and time management. Being able to launch, execute, grow, and scale a business is an intellectual exercise involving a lot of research, networking, planning, business strategy, marketing, sales, and a…
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Managing Interruptions And Boosting Work Performance During Crisis
Digital businesses were forced to move fully remotely during the social isolation of COVID-19. Digital businesses, long accustomed to a certain level of remote work, weren’t immune. While they may have had a head start compared to traditional brick-and-mortar companies, the pandemic pushed them to fully embrace a distributed workforce. This shift demanded not only…
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The Business Guide to Intrapreneurship
With the boom of entrepreneurship out there, there has been a distinct separation between corporate work and starting a business of your own. However, most folks are not familiar with what intrapreneurship is, due to it getting far less coverage than it should be. While entrepreneurship often gets the spotlight, intrapreneurship offers a compelling alternative…
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12 Productivity Frameworks And Tools For Effective Management
Over 50,000 US users search for “productivity” in Google every single month. When you add the long list of queries around productivity tips, productivity apps, productivity planners, and other forms of definitions around the term, we’re ranking over 300,000 total searches across the board. We are all eager to fight procrastination and maximize our time.…
