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I was talking to a peer mentor the other day, and she was giving me some great food for thought on simple ways to add data to project reports. As I complimented her approaches, she told me that out of all the parts of her job, manipulating project data comes easily to her—but project team member per...

What does time off work look like for you? Does your company encourage you to take all your vacation time, support you in totally unplugging when you’re off, and maybe even offer sabbaticals? Is your company on the other end of the spectrum, rewarding employees who don’t use their vacation time or w...

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If you read my blog regularly, you might be working toward earning your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification—the premier international credential that proves you’re a competent project leader. That’...

I was chatting with an email subscriber the other day, and he was telling me that when he’s assigned a project, it’s on him as the project leader to convince other company employees to complete the tasks his project needs done on top of their regular work. Nobody is directly expected to help with hi...

Does your role as a project manager require regular communication with clients or vendors? Or are you newly finding yourself working with professionals external to your organization? 

I worked directly with outside clients for the first year and a half of my career, and with many types of vendors i...

I was sitting in a room with our director of customer relationship management (CRM) and the manager of our data entry team, asking them to explain what exact steps needed to happen when we set up a donation webpage, to make sure a donor’s information flows correctly through our 3rd-party donation so...