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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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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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MOTIVATION
Motive is a need that requires satisfaction. Motivation is the reason for people's actions, willingness and goals. An individual's motivation may be inspired by others or events (extrinsic motivation) or it may come from within the individual (intrinsic motivation).
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Five Steps to build Consensus in a Team
Project-MANAGEMENT means to take a lot of decisions on the way. Most of them within the core team of the project. Mostly under time pressure project managers often take "lonely decisions".
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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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AGILE TEAM & ENGAGEMENT (PART 1)
It is well known that the agile framework should reflect real time customer requirements and develop a viable piece of product at the end of the Sprint. I was engaged with the agile topics and solved the impediments as SCRUM Master and Couch.
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Burnout
To be burnout does not mean the same as to be stressed or simply to be tired out.
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Careful not to damage your team during the Sprint Retrospective
The point of the SCRUM Sprint Retrospective meeting is to look at both positive and negative aspects of the project. If the meeting is facilitated by the SCRUM master in a way that the team members only discuss “what is not working”, and the meeting is focused on negative issues, it might damage the work atmosphere and have a negative impact on the team.
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"Workplace Prisoners"
A workplace prisoner is someone who indicates they will stay at their organization despite the lack of motivation to give their best effort and a lack of positive things to say about their company.
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Make motivation a success
Motivation leads to success or failure