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PM Tips & Ideas

Project Staff Management in 3 Steps (A Quick Checklist)

Simply saying, project staff management is a series of process for ensuring that the right people with the right abilities and tools are assigned to the right tasks at the right time. Developing a staffing plan helps project managers to perform the processes of effective staff management which is one of the most important factors in leading a project to a successful outcome. In this article we briefly review the key steps to creating a project staffing plan

Essential Self-Management Skills for Employees to Be Productive at Workplace

Career & Lifestyle

Essential Self-Management Skills for Employees: How to Be Productive at Workplace

Developing self-management skills becomes one of the best management practices and activities of those people who have decided to become more productive employees. While companies tend to spend large amounts of both money and energy to provide their employees with special self-management skills training, each employee can personally organize self-assessment surveys to define whether he or she has the required skills. This effort is extremely important for workers oriented on aggressive career development. Without the personal effort for developing self-organization and self-management skills, it’s hard to imagine a productive employee succeeding in career promotion and professional advancement. This article is designed to help you answer the question “What are self management skills?” and how to be a productive employee.

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How-to Guides

How to Interview Project Management Candidates

Let’s imagine you’re in charge of interviewing skilled project management candidates for a vacancy on the leader of your project team. PM interviewing is a responsible duty that you should carry out to recruit an effective project manager able to manage your project throughout the life cycle and lead the team. How to select project management candidates and choose the best one? Which selection criteria should you use to interview prospective candidates and measure their skills? In this article I’ll talk about four core personal skills that PM candidates should have in order to become an effective project manager. By understanding these skills, it’ll be no more a problem for you to find and employ the best PM candidate. This article is a short guide for recruiters and employers who need to know what key personal characteristics PM candidates must demonstrate to become effective project managers.

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How-to Guides

How to Handle Challenges of Project HR Management

Employees or human resources within projects are the most valued asset of any organization. Effective project human resource management (project HR management) makes it easier for that organization to gain more benefits and profits from using human resources. Project human resource management requires an integrated approach for handling employee management challenges by minimizing redundancy, reducing time waste and avoiding inefficient team communications. Managers should create the working environment in which employees are able to maximize their performance and show their best talents and skills. To handle challenges of project human resource planning and management, there are several ways or techniques, such as 1) Focusing employees, 2) Setting clear direction and 3) Establishing effective communications. Let’s view these techniques for managing project human resources in detail.

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Teamwork & Leadership

PM Mentoring – The Importance of Project Staff Training

Perhaps you can hardly find organizations that do not try to follow the practice of successful project management mentoring and project staff training, because the modern competitive environment dictates to business organizations to have educated and skilled employees who can do daily tasks and perform projects with less time and money consumed. Through practising project management mentoring and training, any organization can direct and coordinate its human and material resources throughout the project life-cycle to accomplish established goals within the scope, expected quality, time and budget, while meeting expectations of the stakeholders. Excellence in planning and implementing projects will be achieved if the organization owns training personnel that has earned online project management certifications and accomplished project management certificate programs. In this article I would like to describe a definition of project management mentoring and list its benefits so that you would see the importance of project staff mentoring.