Mona Mortazavi

Mona Mortazavi, MBA, PMP, LSSGB is a project and change management professional based in Houston, Texas. In her current role, she manages enterprise-wide programs and process improvement initiatives for Waste Management in Corporate Finance, previously in Supply Chain Operations. Mona’s primary experience has been in leading software implementation projects and process improvement transformation initiatives in the finance, supply chain, real estate, and human resources disciplines. With experience in the utilities and environmental services industries, her true focus is in creating best practice programs for the projects she leads. Mona writes about project planning and change management.

Business Communication
Mona MortazaviJanuary 6, 2022
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Creative ways to communicate change
Emails can be boring to read sometimes. Especially lengthy emails with a lot of detail, but in projects, failure to communicate effectively can become very costly. Here are some ways you can get creative communicating change related to a project…
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Project Management Life Cycle
Mona MortazaviDecember 21, 2021
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4 Essential tips for creating a project charter
Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things that you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders is the other task that needs to be recognized during…
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Project Management
Mona MortazaviDecember 15, 2021
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Program Managers stay organized | Project Manager
Ever wonder how project or program managers stay organized all of the time (or most of it)? As a project or program manager, how do you stay organized and ensure success while running multiple projects at the same time? Some…
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Business Communication
Mona MortazaviDecember 6, 2021
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Tips for effectively crafting your project communications
A few articles ago, I shared how to create a communications plan to support change management in your project. In this article, I am going to be covering the actual project communications themselves. Where do I start? Start by creating…
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Change Management
Mona MortazaviNovember 23, 2021
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Creating a communication plan, a critical component of project change management
Creating a communication plan that delivers the right messages, to the right audiences, at the right time is a critical component of your project’s change management. The plan should be a living document; a robust roadmap of your messaging throughout…
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Stakeholder Management
Mona MortazaviNovember 9, 2021
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How to prepare for a project kick-off meeting and what to cover
Project kick-off meetings are critical to a successful project launch and not having a plan in place for how to structure the meeting can have the project start off on the wrong foot. The project is new, some of the…
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Project Management Life Cycle
Mona MortazaviOctober 26, 2021
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7 Questions you should ask when assigned a new project
Monday morning, you walk into work, and you get asked by your manager to swing by their office. You are told that you’ll be managing a new project, but you don’t have any background or time to prepare. Here are…
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Business Communication
Mona MortazaviFebruary 4, 2020
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Emotional intelligence (EQ) in the un-emotional workplace
While technical skills are very important, emotional intelligence (EQ) skills are just as much if not more important in the people-process oriented world of project management, otherwise known as “soft skills.” The better you are in managing others, relating, and…
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Stakeholder Management
Mona MortazaviJanuary 9, 2020
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2 Key tools for stakeholder analysis
The importance of identifying your stakeholders (Stakeholder Analysis) at the beginning of your project is something all project managers can resonate with. A stakeholder, by definition, is anyone who is impacted by your project (directly or indirectly). This includes customers…
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