Most project managers have read, at one point of another, that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is considered a key factor for the success of a project. In this post I start by considering what Emotional Intelligence is and what it brings to...
This is a guest article by Glevys Rondon. Glevys worked for over two decades as director and founder at the Latin American American Mining Monitoring Programme, an international organisation based in London aiming to empower and improve the lives of women...
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While it might be an exaggeration to call a project plan a battle plan, no project plan is ever perfect or will perfectly encompass the project from beginning to end without the need for changes or updates. No battle plan ever...
Sometimes projects arise within organisations without being specifically planned as such. Perhaps someone has a good idea that should actually be applied company wide and not just in one department, or maybe a senior manager forces a change at the top...
Every project has stakeholders, yet all stakeholders are not necessarily willing participants in projects. Depending on their importance and influence on a project, uninterested stakeholders can have anything from an irritating to a completely demoralising effect on a project and can...
We humans are prone to think that we are close to a certain solution when in fact we are still far away. This leads us to continue to invest time in one task without noticing that we will never come to...
There is an old game called “two truths and one lie”. It goes like this: a person makes three statements. From the three, two statements will be true and one will be a lie. Other players must then guess which of...
