Early Impressions of Google+: Be Scared Facebook
Early Impressions of Google+: Be Scared Facebook, Very Scared Last year, I wrote a blog post about the Next, Big […]
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Communications
Stakeholder Management Tools
Nope. There’s just no way around it. You are going to have to work with people. Even if you are
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The Project Manager’s Multitool: The Status Report
Status reports (or whatever your particular methodological school calls them) are frequently maligned – c.f. “TPS Reports” in the movie
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Simple Tools, Advanced Users
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as
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Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
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Breaking the myths about language learning as an adult
1. If I just use music and media, may I give up studying grammar and vocabulary and quit my language
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Changing the way you think about foreign language learning
Do you think of foreign language learning as sitting in your boring, stuffy high school Spanish class repeating “Yo me
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Twins – Double Your Efficiency, Double Your Fun
If I ever hear “Well – could you make a baby in one month with nine mothers?” again – I
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Done or Done Done?
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration.
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Some sage advise for your first day at a new job.
On our first day, we typically want to “prove ourselves”. We want to show that they made a great decision in hiring us. We feel the need to jump in and be productive right away. Although our intentions are very good, in our zeal to impress, we can even go a little overboard.
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How does one carefully maintain the balance between effective communication and time management?
The rule of thumb is that the answer to most questions starting with “should everything be” is “NO”.
It’s the same with this question.
Effective communication IS time management. It isn’t a trade-off, such as this question seems to imply. Consider how much time you waste through misinterpretation, vague directions, mistakes and hurt feelings when you are not communicating clearly?
There’s much more to this than meets the eye, but here are five of six tips to effective communication AND time management?