From the monthly archives:

December 2011

Holidays!

December 21, 2011

I’m taking a two-week break over Christmas to enjoy the holidays. A Girl’s Guide to Project Management returns on 4 January, 2012. In the meantime, I thought this video would cheer up the gloomy December days – Gina Schreck showed it at her presentation at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting earlier this year. Enjoy!

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Day of Gratitude

December 19, 2011

This blog might be called A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, but the success of it isn’t just down to me. There are a lot of people who contribute to making it happen. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK (our November holiday celebrates the chap who didn’t manage to blow up Parliament in 1605) [...]

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How to be a PMO Leader: Book Review of Leading Successful PMOs

December 14, 2011

Project managers have to be project leaders as well, at least some of the time. But what happens when you want to take the next step and lead a PMO? Peter Taylor’s new book, Leading Successful PMOs, explains. He discusses the PMO that he led at Siemens. It was a three year journey. They began [...]

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What project managers can learn on Twitter: Interview with Robert Kelly of #PMChat

December 12, 2011

Robert Kelly and Rob Prinzo have started using Twitter to connect project managers in an unusual way. I spoke to Robert about how they are bringing project managers together online (and even better, how you can earn PDUs for hanging about on Twitter!). Robert, you use Twitter to coordinate conversations between project managers through a [...]

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A shopping guide for a project management Christmas

December 9, 2011

How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? If your Christmas project planning has gone a bit awry and you still have gifts to buy, here is my list of what to get the project managers in your life. Or you could suggest that people buy these things for you! Anyone who saw me at [...]

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Turning the Generation Gap upside down: 5 tips for working with Baby Boomers

December 7, 2011

PM Network last month reported that 65% of people feel that there is a generation gap in project management. We are living in the first period where five generations are working together in the workplace. Experienced (i.e. older) project managers now have Generation X and Generation Y people on their teams. The age differences at [...]

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: the launch!

December 5, 2011

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is available from today! Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is my new ebook aimed at anyone who has ever felt out of place at work. Imposter Syndrome is really common. As a result of [...]

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Free report: 5 Symptoms of Imposter Syndrome

December 2, 2011

Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter will know that I have been working on an ebook about Imposter Syndrome over the summer. I’ll be launching it next week, and in the meantime I thought you might like to find out more about Imposter Syndrome. You can get a free report, 5 Symptoms of [...]

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