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Hone Your Communication to Manage Up and Down

By Rob Zell: Cue narrator and eerie music: You are about to enter a dimension that is very real and demands performance; a dimension in which you are an engaged employee, looking to get ahead and improve your career. You have a boss…
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Stop, Look and Succeed
with Your Project

by Eileen McMonagle When a project feels like it is getting out of control, don’t try to move faster with it.  Now is the time to stop.  Even though it may feel like you should be doing the opposite, stop and really look at where…
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Do Simple Projects Need Less Planning?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: So, you’ve been assigned a “simple” project. In fact, it’s so simple there’s really no need for a formal project plan, a charter or any formal methodology for that matter. You feel good. Day 2: the business…
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Mulenburg’s “Meetings As Projects”

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: I once headed up an organization for a year while their chief was off getting a masters degree in business. I soon learned that the organization had an obsessive-meeting-compulsive-disorder. It seemed like…
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Different Train of Thought

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Have you ever had a humorous misunderstanding arise because two people were approaching a conversation from different angles and were not understanding each other correctly? Let me give you a recent humorous example…
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Using Dr. Oz’s Info on Circadian Rhythms to Our Best Business Advantage

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In September, Dr. Oz had a show on the best time to do anything. In it, he discussed several things that we can use to our benefit at work. This information centers around working with our natural circadian rhythms. From…