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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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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Last week I watched a very interesting series on Netflix. This show interviews legendary coaches of our generation where they share some of the rules they live by, which have helped them succeed in their lives and careers.
I found it very interesting, and I could relate to some of my experiences with my career. In some way, a project manager is also like a coach who is responsible for the project’s / team’s success and is dependent on his players (resources) to deliver their best.
The Playbook – Coach’s Rule for Life – Summary + Learnings Read More »
As a Project Manager one should be aware of the process involved in building a Product Roadmap. Having a Product Roadmap will help you as a Product/ Program Manager and everyone involved with the project.
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A few weeks back I took a training on Communication Foundations by Tatiana Kolovou, Brenda Bailey (from Kelley School of Business), and below are my notes. A recent survey suggested that “Communication competency” being the single most decisive factor while choosing a manager in most companies! As a project manager, this is one of the key skills one should master to deliver successful projects.
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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.
Four-Step Process To Manage a multigenerational workforce Read More »
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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As a project manager, on average, I take at least 5 decisions in a day..🙂 It could be a decision to onboard a resource or Add/ remove tasks from my WBS and a decision to change the schedule, various risks based decisions, project budget-based decisions, and so on.. That means it’s naturally important for me to learn and improve my critical thinking and decision-making ability. While I was looking for some pointers around this, I came across this training in LinkedIn Learning.
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