As a project manager, you may be looking to take the next step in your career: certification. Certification is a step toward more job opportunities, higher earning potential, bigger networks, and more challenging projects. When it comes time to decide which certification is best for you at this time in your career, many people are unsure [...]
If you work in project management, you should know how valuable your skills are and, more importantly, how much more valuable they’re becoming. That said, while companies all over the world need talented project managers, how do you ensure your resume will stand out from the countless other candidates? Our Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) [...]
Project management is a complex and yet essential practice in the business world. Consider a scenario where you want to impress your boss with a new initiative that you believe will increase business or reduce operational costs. You can’t just execute your idea without a plan. You’ll likely fail at your mission, and it may even [...]
The role of a project manager can be a difficult one. Ensuring your project is meeting crucial benchmarks, keeping resource expenditures under budget, and juggling personnel difficulties is all part of the job. But when it comes to project management, few skills are as important as risk management. In order to be successful in your position, [...]
Project Management isn’t just about keeping a project on track and effectively dealing with hiccups and hurdles along the way. As any Certified Project Manager knows, it also involves an enormous amount of planning before any immediate work on the project actually begins. Determining project scope, identifying stakeholders, aligning procedures with overarching company goals, and a [...]
Becoming an effective project manager takes a variety of skills. It requires strong leadership, superior communication abilities, meticulous planning, and a number of other essential characteristics as well. But there’s one skill that doesn’t get enough emphasis in the world of project management – strategic and effectual Project Selection. In fact, a recent Six Sigma-focused study [...]
In the business world, there is no shortage of projects that need to be organized, managed, and successfully implemented. This means there’s also no shortage of need for project managers to fill make those things happen. If you possess the skills necessary for successful project management - leadership, communication, good with people, hard working - you [...]
Project management is a huge task that requires training, experience, and vision. A lot is required of a project manager, and because of that, one of the best things you can do is remove some of the workload and stress by getting it out of your head, and into an organized system. Project management is a huge [...]
What goes into the ideal project manager? What are their skills and character like? If you are a project manager, what skills should you be seeking to develop? It’s challenging to know because the subject can seem so broad. So confusing at times. It’s tough to know all that’s needed to manage projects effectively and skillfully. [...]
In 2017, it’s hard to imagine doing anything at all without technology. And while our dependence upon it can sometimes feel a little tiresome, it’s also true that there is much advantage to be gained with the click of a mouse (or the tap of a finger, as it were). With almost every imaginable profession or [...]
