MyMG Team | Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices - Part 23

Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

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How Leadership Training Can Help with Project Management

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How Leadership Training Can Help with Project Management

A role in project management is potentially a very demanding and difficult job. It requires a variety of skills and personality traits to take on such a position, with each individual person possessing different qualities beneficial to the role. However, there is always room for improvement. Anyone with a role in project management should consider taking part in a leadership training course, such as those offered by Cirrus Connect. There are a variety of different benefits to participating in this type of training.

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Ten Meeting Management Tips for Markedly Improved Productivity

Many times what should be productive planning meetings turn into unproductive arguments or complete timewasters. Sometimes, as the person leading the meeting, you can spend more time diffusing bickering or trying to get people to stay focused on the topic than you do cultivating productivity. A more conductive environment can be encouraged if a few management tips are kept in mind before, during, and after the meetings.

Seismic Shift in Human Resources Functionality

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Seismic Shift in Human Resources Functionality

The human resources industry has undergone huge changes over the last few years. In the past a company’s HR department might have been largely concerned with recruitment and disciplinary and compliance issues, but changes in both HR practices and businesses’ expectations have contributed to the transformation of this traditional role.

The basic checklist for project-managers

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The Basic Checklist for Project Managers

This checklist describes 8 basic steps for project managers to help them succeed in planning and fulfilling their objectives. Such things as forecasting, analysis, software, communication, payment, performance, change management, and lessons learned are considered top priority for managing projects successfully, from their initiation and planning to execution and closure. Although the checklist shares common ideas and suggestions, without paying attention to details, it is helpful for professionals and beginners. You can use it as a starting point for building your success in project management.

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Factors that Make a Low-Performing Team Achieve Higher Performance

Performance including ways to improve it is one of the key concerns of managing product teams. When an executive considers what constraints have the greatest impact on team functioning and product development, basically this individual needs to explore five factors common to most high-performing teams. As multiple surveys indicate, those five factors determine approximately 70% of success. In case they not considered and addressed appropriately, the likelihood that a low-performing team achieves higher performance is only 3.5 %. In this article we investigate the factors and provide tips to improve team performance