Project Management – An Undervalued Skill
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The skills of a good project manager, improve an individual’s capability in almost all other disciplines!
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The skills of a good project manager, improve an individual’s capability in almost all other disciplines!
It must be remembered that project management is first and foremost a philosophy of management, not an elaborate set of tools and techniques.
Managers should manage more and supervise less. This is the heart of the Mini-Project Manager concept!
You need to take care of the people in your team. Your project is only as strong as its weakest link!
Conventional wisdom says that there’s no such thing as a perfect employee performance appraisal form.
A performance appraisal is supposed to be an improvement-based course of action instead of a reserved evaluation that takes place every year.
The absolute key to excellent Performance Management is that it’s an every-day part of management, not a once-in-a-while discussion of what isn’t working.
Springing bad news on an employee during an appraisal usually means you’ve been avoiding the day-to-day performance management of team members.
Do appraisals work? If you are thinking about tweaking or overhauling your appraisal process, here are some things for you to think about.
If you have a problem in your organisation, look up the ladder and not down for its cause.
Every employer faces internal problems that include employee differences, unmet company expectations, and lack of productivity to name just a few.
Forward-thinking business leaders get the most out of their management training investment.
Good managers are good delegators: the more they give away, the more they develop other people’s skills and stretch their capacity.
It should be a continuous development process rather than a one-time fix-it approach.
So what is line management and what are line managers supposed to do? These hints and tips are our version of giving you a mini-roadmap.
What is the Role of Line Management? This article will help you do your job with the skills and mindset to succeed!
People are often promoted to line managers without being given adequate support and training. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Multinational companies have the great advantage of working in and with different cultures to make their products and services accessible to a far wider community.
Surely if someone is Diverse (different than) then they are ipso facto not Equal to (the same as).
As far as the monkeys know that’s the way it’s always been done around here!
Standing up to bullying behaviour is easy to say yet hard to do. But if you don’t they’ll pick on you more!
Facilitation is the thing that’s needed to get people out of routine, to stop people time-wasting and to get things moving forward.
Good facilitators see and hear not only the obvious but are tuned in to what else might be going on that isn’t quite so apparent.
Teams are stronger than individuals, but you have to put the work in to get the results out.