Category: Teamwork & Leadership

How Leadership Training Can Help with Project Management

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.

Addressing the Skills Gap, or How to Retain Talents

Hiring professionals for new jobs or replacing those workers who have left is challenging for many companies, especially for those specializing in manufacturing and distribution. Today almost 80% of hiring managers and HR professionals cannot find necessary talents to fill critical project roles.

Seismic Shift in Human Resources Functionality

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.

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