How can you make sure you invest your training money, time and effort wisely and get the long term results you want? Find out with this guide distilled from personal experience and best practice from The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligenc…
Project management is at the heart of many areas in business, government and education. Although there are a wide range of recognised methods and qualifications available, there are also some core skills and common-sense techniques that apply to every …
Project management excellence goes beyond producing project charters, detailed schedules and colourful status reports. Today’s project managers must acquire the skills necessary to combat a myriad of modern challenges.
We’ve all heard how outsourcing and augmenting staff with experts is an avenue for meeting business needs where the technology, skills, knowledge, staff or time is not internally available. In theory outsourcing provides the ability to develop products…
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From a textbook perspective, the role of a project manager is quite easy to describe. A project manager is one, who looks into the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to describe, organise, oversee and control the various project pr…
The world of work has changed. It used to be that most of us worked as a part of a process, whether on an assembly line, managing interactions with customers, or any one of a thousand other processes. Processes are ongoing, repeatable and never have an…
Outsourcing is the process of contracting a third party to do work on the behalf of a client that has neither the skills or resources to perform in-house. It is usually more cost effective to contract out work than to hire someone in to complete the pr…
The Project Management Gene
By Melanie Carasso
There are five factors you’ll see in people who exhibit “the project management gene”:
They have technical smarts
They are blessed with above-average emotional intelligence
They have goo…
In a few short years students of today are going to be entering a work atmosphere that will be more competitive and demanding than it is right now. Many of these students will study hard and get really good marks but they may still suffer in one regard…