Project Management Skills
Forming a Project Team
No matter how skillful you are as a project leader, it’s unlikely that you’d be able to complete an entire project by yourself—there are just
Dan Picard
November 18, 2021
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Common Communication Plan Attributes
The results of your stakeholder meetings and analysis will help you to determine your communication approach and to craft a concrete plan for communication and
Dan Picard
November 16, 2021
Project Management Skills
10 Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is a thoughtful and reflective process that helps establish the validity of ideas or beliefs. It is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to
Dan Picard
November 8, 2021
Project Management Skills
Problem-Solving Strategy
No project is immune to challenges or complications, so, as a project leader, you’ll have to learn to respond quickly to any issues or impediments
Dan Picard
November 4, 2021
Project Management Skills
The Do’s & Don’ts of Delegating
Delegation is an important leadership tool, and project leaders cannot succeed without delegation. While you may be responsible for some project tasks, the majority of
Dan Picard
October 19, 2021
Project Management Skills
Leadership Styles
What makes someone a leader? There are multiple bases for leadership, including whether a person is charismatic, possesses a certain level of expertise, or has attained some
Dan Picard
October 14, 2021
Project Management Skills
Negotiating With Team Members
As a project leader, you may have to negotiate a number of your project’s parameters (e.g., project scope and/or timelines, risk tradeoffs, process-related criteria, iteration content,
Dan Picard
October 7, 2021
Project Management Skills
Effective Leadership Practices
As part of developing their interpersonal skills, project leaders should cultivate strong leadership skills. Project teams need sound leadership from their project leads to complete
Dan Picard
September 29, 2021
Project Management Skills
Cross-Cultural Communication
Especially important in interpersonal communication is the cross-cultural factor. Cross-cultural communication refers to interactions between groups of people who have inherited different sets of values,
Dan Picard
September 22, 2021
Project Management Skills
Characteristics of Critical Thinkers
Critical thinking comprises a set of practical skills that, when applied effectively, can benefit us in every dimension of our lives. Mastering these reasoning and
Dan Picard
August 12, 2021
Project Management Skills
Six Tips for Leading Virtual Teams
Virtual teams—teams that work together toward a common goal but from different physical locations—are becoming more popular in the workplace, but leading a virtual team
Dan Picard
August 6, 2021
Project Management Skills
Adventures in Change Management
Like most others, your organization has probably spent a lot of time creating, adjusting, and refining its processes to achieve results. But if what you’re
Dan Picard
August 4, 2021