3 Challenges Every Remote Team Must Conquer (and How to Solve Them)

Remote teams face unique challenges that can hinder productivity and collaboration. Dive into the 3 biggest problems every remote team must overcome—and learn actionable strategies to solve them. Whether it's improving communication, fostering team engagement, or managing time zones effectively, these tips will help you lead your remote team to success. Perfect for managers and team leaders looking to optimize their virtual workplace!

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How to Kickstart Your First Agile Project with Disciplined Agile – A Beginner's Guide

Are you ready to kickstart your first project but unsure where to start? The Disciplined Agile approach is the perfect fit to maximize impact and reduce effort. In this beginner's guide, I'll show you the steps to understand the concepts and provide examples to kickstart your project. Discover how to create a flexible, goal-oriented approach to project management. Tailor agile methods to your project's unique needs, and deliver impactful results every time.

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Creating a Winning Project Business Case: A Step-by-Step Guide

Business cases are something every manager should understand and be able to present to get approval and funding for their projects and departements. Business acumen includes understanding financial reports, contracting, and business cases. Learn my Step-by-step process to getting a document out the door in a day.

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Mastering the Art of Reading Annual Reports

Business Acumen will help you to build your personal brand as a strategic leader, not just a project manager. Managers who get ahead and have successful projects understand their business environment. This includes reading and understanding annual reports. These insights can give you the edge to stay relevant and connect your project's success to the company's goals. Learn to use the language of finance when creating your business case and link your KPIs to the corporate strategy.

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How to Future Proof Your Career

Learn to be prepared in a changing job market. Understand which skills you have and which you need for your next promotion or job. I give you 3 ways to prepare and 5 steps to uncover what you need to succeed.

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How to thrive in a VUCA world

Working in a VUCA world requires new approaches to leading people, management projects and connecting with others. Having the right outlook and approach to assessment and mitigation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity will make the difference between success and failure. Learn how to plan, act and leverage VUCA here.

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Master the Art of Delegation | Build a more engaged and productive team

Delegating work is an effective way to manage a project or team’s workload. But mastering the art of delegation can improve the team's performance, skills, and capabilities. And create opportunities for innovation and personal growth. Learn 7 tips for mastering the art of delegation so you can become a better leader.

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Choosing the Right Project Governance Approach

Project Management Governance is critical for successful project execution. So what is the best governance model for your project? Managers may think there is only one way of working when it comes to governance, but that's not true. Various models fit different requirements, focus on different project types, and are built to meet different objectives. I review 5 models with use cases and examples.

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Project Management Contracts: Learn to Protect your Project

Managers and Project Managers need to be able to read, understand and manage contracts.

Why? Contacts can impact project costs, outcomes, and risk.

Contracts are something every manager can master. It just takes putting these tips into place and practice.

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Project Governance for Project Managers

Project governance is essential for ensuring the success of a project. It establishes a framework for decision-making, risk management, and accountability. Good governance can also help to prevent project failure, reduce costs, and improve stakeholder satisfaction. How to know if your project needs governance, how to setup the governance meetings and reporting. I take you through everything you need to know, step-by-step.

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How to Increase your Project’s Marketing Mojo

Some managers may think that Marketing does not apply to them. However, Marketing is an essential component of any project. Marketing is about building awareness, education, excitement, and adoption of your project’s message and product. Do you want to know what it takes to reach your audience with the right message and impact? Get the details here.

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3 Essential Skills Managers need to Succeed

Every Project Manager needs to know 3 things that they don’t teach in most schools, or Certification courses. But knowing these things makes the difference between being a competent manager versus being a great business leader. What are they and how can these essential points help you succeed? Read on!

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How to Transition from Project to Operation

Projects are only the first step to successful implementation of any solution. To be sustainable, an operational support team must be put into place. How to transition from Project to Operations smoothly to ensure the long term success of your project? Read more here.

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5 Tips to Successful Supplier Governance

Suppliers are key to the success of any business. Having the right relationship and Supplier governance model can make the difference between a high performing relationship and a dysfunctional one. See the 1 page document any manager can use to create clear expectations and track Supplier performance to improve outcomes for both parties.

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Make or Buy? How to Make a Strategic Decision For Your Project

How to make a strategy make versus buy decision for your project or business? Some decisions are harder than others. Given the challenges in asset costs, access to skilled staff, product commoditization. These choices are getting harder. What do you need to consider when making a buy vs make decision? Learn more here.

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