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Task prioritization
One of the biggest challenges for project managers and executives is to prioritize everyday work.
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Best Practices for Effective Meeting
Meetings often do not produce the desired effect due to errors created by inexperienced manager who leads the discussion.
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Lateral thinking
What is the difference between lateral thinking and „traditional thinking“?
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Consulting, mentoring and coaching.
What is the difference between consulting, mentoring and coaching?
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Extreme Project Management
What is the difference between traditional project management and extreme project management?
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Pygmallion effect or reason for managing your expectations
According to Ovidius, Pygmallion was a Cypriot sculptor, who fell in love with an ivory woman statue he carved. The goddess Aphrodite appreciated his love and offerings and changed the statue to a real woman. Pygmallion then married her and they had a daughter. So much for the history or mythology, now let's go back to management. The phenomenon called Pygmalion effect says that others' expectations from a person are affecting that person's performance.
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Coaching - what it really is
Most people are already aware that Coaching exists, but in many cases it is understood incorrectly - e.g. as mentoring or consulting.
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Unprepared meeting agenda
Unprepared meeting agenda and meeting time plan, non-compliance with the project schedule and meeting agenda.
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Unrealistic demands
Lack of resistance to unrealistic demands
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Critical thinking
Most of people are not thinking, but reacting and following a series of responses that they’ve either been told or learned. The people sometimes can be on autopilot, but they better know how to switch it off.