Running Effective Project Team Meetings
Wouldn’t it be great if everyone wanted to attend your project meetings? I am not saying anyone should be rolling out a red carpet anticipating your entrance into the meeting, but it would be nice if you put on a meeting where people were enthusiastically engaged. Well, that should be happening. If you are scheduling and running meetings that are pointless or unconstructive, your team is not going to give you their best work, because clearly, you are not giving them your best. Attributes of an effective team meeting In addition…
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Effective Leaders=Successful Projects
Project management needs people Project management is a profession that will never be done by an app or machine. It needs people and here’s why: Work gets done through people On the most basic level, project management software and tools can tell you where you are and what needs to get done, but only with the input from a human. For example, Asana is an amazing app for task management, but in no way can it run a team without a human. Businesses need real, live project leaders to assess…
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Project Manager vs. Project Leader
You have probably noticed we use the term “project leader” more often than “project manager.” That is no mistake. The two terms are not synonymous and we believe project leaders have the ability to take projects and teams to a whole other level. What is the difference between project managers & project leaders? A project leader is a project manager, but a project manager is not necessarily a project leader. Both managers and leaders are professionals who are tasked with planning, executing and closing a project. Both are in charge…
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