I stumbled upon this course from Kathrine, while I was searching for Talent management concepts in LinkedIn learning. I was curious and wanted to understand the concept of succession planning. This post summarizes my learning from this course on how should leaders go about building a Talent Management strategy within their Org.
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Studies suggest that Communication skill is one of the top skill required to be hired and promoted for any role. So effective business writing skills can make or break your career and is really a big deal. I came across this great course from Judy Steiner where she lays out some basic principles of writing. I have started to actively apply some of her tips in my day-to-day communications and I can see improvements already. You can take this training from here.
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A great leader is someone who can serve both the short and long-term requirements of an organization. They have a short-term vision for the team and a long-term vision for the team members. I remember when one of my CIO took an opportunity outside the organization, she ensured that she spoke with her direct reports and ensured that the top talent had a good runway in place to grow in their career and during the transition phase ensured that the new CIO and the new portfolio owners know how important these top talents are to our organization.
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Budget along with Scope and Schedule is one of the 3 most critical areas that needs to be managed well so that project can be completed successfully. Losing sight of the Budget can lead to diminishing the value of the project. Below is my summary of my trainings and experiences. I strongly recommend all Project / Program Managers to take this training, as Cost management is a very important skill a PM can have.
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For any successful career, building and maintaining a great relationship is critical.For building a good relationship beginning is the most important part where you have the opportunity to make a good first impression.
I always believed this to be important but was hoping someone would give me 5 simple things I could do that would help me do that. I came across a video by Todd Dewett, which had these simple steps.
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As a Project/Program Manager – One of the most common things to do is deliver Team/ individual feedback based on the assessment of the schedule vs the current execution status.
Delivering feedback should be an effective process. Feedback delivered in an unclear fashion can do more harm than good. I have listed 5 tips on delivering effective feedback.
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As Project Managers, we have to deal with a workforce that could be very diverse. A multigenerational workforce is where you have a team falling under more than one of the below categories.
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As a Project/ Program Manager, Your world would be great if everyone would perform the best! but in reality, it’s not true and there is plenty of performance issues that we as project managers need to address. I have also noticed that most leaders don’t enjoy sharing feedback on poor performance with their team, but TRUE leaders never back off from such a difficult conversation.
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I always struggled, in fact even now I find it very difficult to say No to random requests and favors that come my way. It’s important to be helpful, positive, and civil but you have to carve out time for yourself every day in order to get your work done and meet your deadlines. Here I talk about when and how to say No and also do that without hurting anybody’s feelings.
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This week I took a refresher training on Scrum basics (from Kelley O’Connell, highly recommend you to take her course if it’s feasible ) so that I could reflect and appreciate the scrum practices I do on regular basis and also start things that I have either stopped doing or never considered worthy! So here is my summary/takeaways. Hope you like it!
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