Category Archives for Communication Skills
Increase Your Email Responses | Video
Do you want to increase your email responses? After all, you take the trouble to craft your email. So why wouldn’t you want people to respond to it?
Continue reading...How to Build a Great Project Communications Plan | Video
If your project does not have a good enough Communications Plan, people won’t know as much as they want to know. And that can mean trouble.
Continue reading...How to Run a Great Project Team Meeting | Video
Projects have teams, and teams need to meet. So your next project team meeting is a valuable opportunity to advance your project and motivate your team.
Continue reading...Stakeholder Leadership: Leading Bystanders as well as Followers
Leadership focuses on your relationship to followers. But not everyone looks to a leader. Leading them is the role of Stakeholder Leadership.
Continue reading...Challenging Communication Tips for Better Project Communication | Video
Project Management is 80 percent communication. What we fear is the challenging communication that comes with pressure, emotions, bad news, and high stakes.
Continue reading...Visual Communication for Better Project Results
Communication is a vital part of Project Management. To be a better PM, you need to communicate more effectively. And nothing beats visual communication.
Continue reading...Impossible Project: 8 Principles to Take it on and Deliver it
Do you need to take on an impossible project: something nobody thinks can be done? Or maybe a project no one thinks should be done!
Continue reading...How to Handle Stakeholder Objections
Handling stakeholder objections is an unavoidable part of life as a Project Manager. It ought to be one of my Project Management Rules. Resistance is Inevitable. Because, the reality is that, if you ever want to innovate, create, or change something, there is one thing you need to be ready for: resistance. Resistance is a […]
Continue reading...Presentation Skills: A Guide for Project Managers
Too many Project Managers find it’s their presentation skills that let them down. Yet, having coached many presenters, I find that the difference between: a clear, confident presentation, and a waffly, wobbly presentation is usually very easy to fix. There are a few simple things any project manager can do to brush up on your […]
Continue reading...LEAD: Your Four Project Leadership Priorities
When you are in a Project Leadership role, you will have a lot to do. As well as managing your project day-to-day, you’re responsible for the people. They look to you for leadership and guidance. But, with so many responsibilities, it can be hard to know what are your leadership priorities? Often, it is the […]
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