A lot of people, including myself when I started working more in risk management, have a hard time with considering risk as a positive event. This comes from years of …
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Sylvie Edwards, PMP, MCPM, STDC has 25 years of project management experience spanning various industries and is the owner of SRE Solutions, catering to clients in need of project management course development, education, project risk management, PMO setup/evaluation or recovery services. She has worked with one of the top five consulting firm, where she led projects in the information technology, banking, government, and securities sectors as well as being a manager in the risk management practice. Sylvie writes about risk management and communication.
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As a project manager, are you an active listener?
Early on in my career when I was in the hospitality industry, one of the first courses that I was asked to attend was an active listening course. The fact …
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Is body language part of your communication strategy?
Learn about body language in communication strategy. Albert Mehrabian, renowned engineer and psychologist documented and developed in his doctorate research (in the early 1960s) a theory that in order to …
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Is your company missing the mark when conducting risk identifications?
For many project teams out there in various organizations, risk identification is just another process that we accomplish in order to keep risk from undermining our project management efforts. It …
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What is the measure of a successful project?
Historically speaking, project managers have always seen the measure of a project’s success related to what you might have come to know as the “iron triangle” or quadruple constraints. A …
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Finding ways to better leverage project stakeholders expertise
Every Project Manager and project team must make better use of the stakeholders on their projects in order to gain key information to accomplish the objectives set before them. Too …
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How well does PM program curriculum prepare students for the job?
I have been involved with project management education for over 20 years, and it was not until about six years ago, when I developed the curriculum for our local College …
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What inspires team creativity? Curiosity is the secret
We are always trying to get the creative juices of our team going at different points of our projects, especially during requirements definition and gathering. We often miss the mark …
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6 Key ingredients to optimize your virtual team
Virtual work is almost the norm nowadays. It has become rare that a team will be collocated into its own space for a project. How can anyone set up a …
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Are dashboards the best tools for providing status information?
Dashboard reporting is popular because of its short, sweet, and to-the-point graphical interface that usually fits into one page; but it has its pros and cons depending on the use …