Women

Book review: Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination

March 20, 2013

“This is such an incredible, unprecedented time to be a woman in business,” writes Emily Bennington in her book, Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination. “Never before has our style of leadership been so needed, and never before have our choices been so vast and our opportunities so great.” [...]

Gossip at work: turning it into something useful

January 7, 2013

We all like a good chat about our colleagues, don’t we? On challenging projects with big teams there is always plenty to comment about, from why so-and-so was late to work to whether someone else is doing a good job. I spoke to workplace behavioural expert Beverly Flaxington from The Collaborative about gossip, and how [...]

Building a project management career: interview with Helen Hitchmough

November 28, 2012

Earlier this month we celebrated International Project Management Day and one of the themes this year was women in project management. I wanted to get someone else’s view on being a woman in project management so I spoke to Helen Hitchmough, a senior project manager at project management consultancy firm Acando, about her project management [...]

How men and women manage risk differently

November 21, 2012

Earlier this month International Project Management Day took as one of its themes the role of women in project management. I spoke to Angela Minzoni Alessio, PhD, an industrial and business anthropologist from the Ecole Centrale in Paris, about how men and women approach project risk differently. Angela, you’ve spent a lot of time researching [...]

Women in Leadership: the new challenges

November 19, 2012

As this month we’ve celebrated International Project Management Day with a focus on women in projects, I wanted to share this video with you. In the video, Davinia Ankerson, Director of change management consultancy Incite, talks about the challenges facing business leaders about getting more women into leadership positions. She talks about quotas, different work [...]

International Project Management Day celebrates women in project management

November 1, 2012

This year, the 9th International Project Management Day has taken ‘women and children’ as its theme. There is something to be said for the role of project management in education, and I’ve written before about the good work that various groups are doing to encourage project management skills in schools. Equality in project management – [...]

What women think men think about us

April 30, 2012

Last week I wrote about some research from the Project Management Journal by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP. It looked at the leadership behaviours valued by women and how frequently we apply them. Neuhauser’s research also asked female project managers to report on how they thought they were perceived by men. Here’s what her study had to [...]

Leadership skills: how female project managers lead

April 23, 2012

While I was researching my new book, Customer-Centric Project Management, I came across a piece of research in the Project Management Journal about women’s leadership skills. ‘Project Management Leadership Behaviours and Frequency of Use by Female Project Managers’ by Charlotte Neuhauser, PMP, looks at what women think are the most important leadership characteristics and then [...]

10 Inspirational Women in Project Management

March 8, 2012

Last year at the PMI Global Congress in Dallas, Peter Taylor gave a presentation celebrating project management. He counterbalanced statistics showing many projects by saying that we should be proud of the great work we do as project managers. Peter listed some project managers as examples of our successes. Frank Saladis, Harold Kerzner, Cornelius Fichtner, [...]

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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