Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Finally, foster an environment where constructive criticism is encouraged and valued. Does each team have the resources it needs to succeed? Consider implementing profit-sharing or other collective incentive structures. Leaders should model this behavior by seeking feedback and responding positively to suggestions.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There are unprecedented opportunities at the intersection of AI, project management, and sustainability. It is essential for project managers to learn to implement “green algorithms,” specialized AI constructs designed to both enhance operational efficiency and prioritize sustainability.

Management 252

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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 2, 2024

If you are a front-line manager, focus on tasks that are routine, operational, or repetitive, allowing you to free up time for higher-level strategic work. Offering constructive feedback along the way enables team members to refine their approach and learn from their experiences. Ensuring accountability is another common challenge.

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Discussing the Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Management Effective management goes beyond technical skills and industry knowledge. This blog discusses the importance of emotional intelligence in management and offers practical insights for managers aiming to enhance their EQ for better leadership outcomes.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At present, the construction industry is undergoing a substantial transformation. Innovations, economic uncertainty, construction workforce shortages, and other factors have forced building companies to change the way they work and deliver their projects. damage or cracking on buildings). [2] damage or cracking on buildings). [2]

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2023

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Effective Managers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Regularly provide constructive feedback that helps individuals refine their skills and achieve their goals. For more insights on best practices in leading edge managerial leadership visit the Effective Managers website. The post Mentoring and Coaching: Developing Future Leaders appeared first on Effective Managers.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring.

Tools 130

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The State of Project Management 2018 survey by Wellingtone reveals a harsh truth — dissatisfaction with the current level of project management maturity in organizations all over the world is higher than a year ago. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Eight ways to nurture respectful disagreement.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% Do your managers know how to create strategic clarity and commitment with their teams?

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Breaking down intricate data into manageable segments can facilitate better understanding and retention. Peer learning and mentoring are effective strategies in this regard. Constructivist Theory : This theory posits that learners construct their own understanding based on their experiences.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

How to Optimize Team Potential: A 7-Step Guide for Managers High performing team managers optimize potential by unlocking their teams collective capability. Teams perform at their peak when members feel heard, valued, and free enough to engage in constructive debate and effective decision making especially when the stakes are high.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2023

But there are ways to constructively reduce the risk of potential mistakes and reduce your anxiety. When you work in roles where mistakes must be avoided at all costs — think medical, security, financial, and transportation professions — it’s easy to become terrified of making one. Then adopt systems and habits to mitigate those threats.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a New Leader Training for Healthcare Managers. Job Relevance 98.6% Job Relevance 98.6%

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 16, 2021

Poor employee performance confronts all team leaders, supervisors, managers, or executives. Without these behaviors, managers lose trust. As a result, managers facilitate many employee issues because they neglect the performance management strategies above. It goes with the territory. Pulling It All Together.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Individual Contributor Feedback According to Gallup, only20% of employeessay they receive weekly feedback from their managers. Yet 50% of managers think that they provide weekly feedback to their direct reports. Manager Feedback Not surprisingly, managers also struggle with a lack of feedback. That is a waste.

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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It’s important for managers to understand that not all conflict is harmful; some conflicts can lead to positive outcomes like better ideas and solutions. The key is to manage conflicts constructively. Active Listening and Empathy : Train managers and employees in active listening and empathy.

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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It’s important for managers to understand that not all conflict is harmful; some conflicts can lead to positive outcomes like better ideas and solutions. The key is to manage conflicts constructively. Active Listening and Empathy : Train managers and employees in active listening and empathy.

Management 130

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Whether you are a new hire or an experienced professional, understanding and effectively managing internal politics can significantly impact your career growth. In this blog, we will explore key strategies for navigating organizational politics, drawn from the expertise available on Effective Managers.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

I wrote the following post in response to someone on Quora who asked me about innovative methods that management consultants use to pitch clients instead of using PowerPoint presentations. I have them explain the kinds of things that happened to make the project go well, and I help co-construct the path that we used to get there.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s a chance to turn a potentially negative situation into a constructive, forward-looking dialogue. Discussing a promotion with an employee when you’re not ready to give them one is a delicate balancing act, but it’s also a golden opportunity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2017

This all creates challenges for those who would manage narcissistic individuals. So what can managers do? In such a setting, the narcissist’s peers will be able to constructively confront problematic behavior while simultaneously offering a modicum of understanding. They treat positive attention as a kind of painkiller.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this article, the author highlights a unique strategic partnership that helped the electrical transmission and distribution construction industry control injuries and fatalities caused by exposures to workplace hazards.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. The project manager knows the budget and the deadline, and ensures that constituents stay in sync. This is the construction coordinator and the movie producer. The product manager, on the other hand, makes decisions about features, scale and the final product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

“I’d like to work for a manager I can learn from.” As workers get more used to a fluid workplace, where longevity in one firm isn’t the goal and developing a portfolio of skills is more important, managers who can offer learning opportunities will be in high demand. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The New Manager Training program results were: 97.2% The New Manager Training program results were: 97.2% Do your managers know how to create a clear line of sight for people to contribute ? Making Effective Team-based Decisions Managers learned how to set the conditions for better team decisions.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? We’ll touch upon those that are in a company’s area of responsibility and can be adjusted by team leaders and/or project and resource managers. . Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

Despite these efforts, senior managers and HR officers in both companies reported that one in three women engineers continued to leave. These were typically described as invitations from managers or other high-status colleagues to stand in for them, assume higher-level responsibilities, and/or take on new, challenging areas of work.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

. “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. For almost 100 years, management has been associated with the five basic functions outlined by management theorist Henri Fayol: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Ask tactful, open-ended questions to gain clarity on your boss’s reasoning, and be diplomatic and constructive when expressing reservations. Start by assuming good intentions and take an active role in helping your boss understand the nuances of how the organization operates. Frame your feedback as a way to achieve shared goals.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 5, 2018

In my role as a leadership coach, I consistently hear my clients say that they crave negative feedback from their managers in order to improve in their jobs, grow their careers, and achieve better business results. The same study also showed that managers were reluctant to give negative feedback. You and Your Team Series.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Our mission is to simplify multi-project resource management, help project teams be maximum efficient, and let companies grow by intaking more orders and delivering their initiatives faster and cheaper. Tip: Apply tags to define a team that works on the same project but consists of the users from different groups.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis? First of all, you need data.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

When a mistake has been made, consultants will often speak to their managers or other members of the team to identify where they may have made a mistake and ask for assistance on how to fix it. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa. Even at partner level, consultants make mistakes.

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