Accountability is a fundamental concept in project success but keeping your team accountable can become more challenging when part or all of the group remote. Along with leveraging healthy communication channels and focusing on strong engagement, PMs can also employ some targeted actions to maintain accountability. We’ve put together five key steps to ensure your…
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Remote Project Management: Focus on Your Customers
April 22, 2020 by
Any time the daily operations within your organization—or your project team—are disrupted, you may find yourself focused on reactive rather than proactive tasks. This is understandable early after change occurs when you’re still adjusting your strategy, but you should quickly work to get back to a proactive approach to project management. That includes your team’s…
Remote Project Management: Where to Find Help
April 16, 2020 by
Whether your project team is new to working remotely or you’ve been leveraging offsite team members and other professionals for a while, now and then you may need support in making a dispersed workforce more efficient and effective. Adding remote work arrangements to project management can pay big dividends in productivity and employee retention, but…
Remote Project Management: Leadership Through Transition
April 8, 2020 by
During any transitionary period, project teams look to their leaders to guide them through the challenges. It’s up to PMs to ensure activities remain aligned with the master plan—even as that plan changes—and help team members navigate shifts in direction, timing, and scope. Providing strong leadership when some or all of the project group is…
The Interrupted Project: Maintain Your Momentum
April 3, 2020 by
Sometimes interruptions happen that disrupt the normal project flow. PMs can predict many of these situations and develop contingency plans for them, such as seasonal weather impacts and labor shortages during peak times. However, you may encounter interruptions that are created by your own company—a reorganization that puts a temporary halt on a project, for…
