If you’re juggling more than one project, you know it can be easy to lose track of some of the details. Your projects will be sailing along smoothly and then BOOM! there’s a crisis on every single project all at …
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In a lateral move, a strong employee takes on a new position at the same level as his former position. Most companies encourage these because they are mechanisms for keeping good people happy and sufficiently challenged without promoting them and/or …
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Team norms are basically relationship guidelines that develop gradually. Team members develop particular ways of interacting with each other over time until those habits become behavioral expectations.
Lately. I’ve been doing a lot of seminars for prospective career changers, and I always ask the audience how many people are using LinkedIn to communicate directly with contacts in their new industries.
On my first post on the Team Leadership blog, I mentioned that one of the ten things effective teams have in common is norms. A few weeks ago, Wired magazine ran a write up of a study recently published in …
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It seems there’s always one in the crowd. You know who I’m talking about. The glass half empty person who couldn’t find some good news if it was plastered on their face.
Managing projects, both large and small, can be a challenge. Coordinating tasks, managing scope, monitoring resources, scheduling deliverables, and keeping everyone in the loop all require lots of juggling to be successful.
