Your cheat sheet to build a great conference
A survey of executives by Successful Meetings magazine yielded the following checklist of must-haves for building attendance and satisfying attendees that their money and time were well spent.
Category: Project Management
Solutions to 3 common project problems
Even the best planned projects can run into problems over time, no matter how hard you try to anticipate and prevent them. Be on the lookout for these common issues that can crop up as a project goes on and on.
3 questions to ask before making a change
When you’re assigned to lead a major change in your department, you want to start ASAP. But knowing what is not to be changed may matter just as much to your success.
The art of proper research
All sorts of professional roles require at least basic research skills. And they can certainly be regularly improved upon. Here are some tips to sharpen your research game and how to best wrangle and make sense of your findings.
Get people to do what you need!
If you give the same project to two different people, it will be handled in two entirely different ways. For an admin, being an effective project manager is a balancing act of both art and science.
How to introduce new software
Introducing new software is a big project, from selection, to installation, to the most complex and challenging part of all: training employees. Here are some helpful tips that will enable your employees to embrace the new technology.
3 Office 365 tools to try
Check out Planner, Sway and Forms.
Foolproof project planning in Excel
One of the things that great project management apps do is calculate project and task start and due dates based on a project start date and task durations. You can also do this in good old Excel or Google Sheets.
Overwhelmed? There’s a crutch that rarely fails
Consider this a reminder that when things get hectic, there’s one friend an admin can always rely on.
Survive this quiz and you’re a project manager
We believe you need 35 points to survive the high-wire act of being a project manager …