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Welcome to this month’s Manager’s Lab content drop: Strategic Planning! We’re putting systems in place to make sure it doesn’t sneak up on you, we’re breaking it all down to make sure it feels manageable, AND we’re making the case for the impact of strategic planning work.
Today I turn our project management book review lens to The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande. As an aspiring project manager, you're faced with at least two major tasks. The first is the most obvious: you want to learn everything you can about project management. The second task
Today I turn our project management book review lens to If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face?, by Alan Alda. Now, this is a somewhat unorthodox choice for a project management book review – Alan Alda is not a project manager and this book does not
Today I turn our project management book review lens to Risk Up Front, by Adam Josephs and Brad Rubenstein. If I've learned anything about our audience over the years, it's that they're busy! Some folks are trying to advance, or even pivot – and we
Made to Stick, by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, is not so much a book on "how to manage projects" as it is a workbook for how to improve upon that all-important skill of communication. More precisely, Made to Stick involves the science of communicating ideas in a
💡In this module, we'll talk through some mindset work, including how I operationalize a self-coaching mentality, and how I respond to several limiting beliefs that I find are common in higher ed folks transitioning into project management. To access transcripts for this module, view this slide deck. As
💡We made it! In this module, we'll start talking through the final of the five project management life cycle stages: closing. To access transcripts for this module, start with Slide 74 of this slide deck. As always, if you have any questions about content, note them down and/
💡In this module, we'll start talking through the fourth of the five project management life cycle stages: monitoring & controlling. To access transcripts for this module, start with Slide 64 of this slide deck. As always, if you have any questions about content, note them down and/or
💡In this module, we'll start talking through the third of the five project management life cycle stages: execution. To access transcripts for this module, start with Slide 56 of this slide deck. As always, if you have any questions about content, note them down and/or use this
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