We’re excited to announce the release of our Top 10 Adaptive Leadership Trends for 2018. This year’s trends reflect project management’s continued evolution into a blended discipline, incorporating new adaptive approaches and skill sets. While new technology has enabled greater interconnectedness and efficiency, it has also changed the way and speed of doing business. We’re […]
Part I: 6 Essential Ingredients for High-Performance Project Teams
In recent times, organizational structure has evolved from traditional hierarchies into flatter and more cross-functional teams. As a result, a new class of talent has emerged that requires a new approach to people management. Effective teams represent one of the most powerful mechanisms for achieving significant results in organizations today. Thus, developing high-performance teams has […]
Webinar Recap: Negotiating the Complexity Chasm
The business environment today is more complex than ever before. As a result, the projects that power an organization’s strategy are also increasing in complexity. During our recent #StratExLive webinar, Strategy Execution’s Vice President of Product Management, Jonathan Gilbert, and Global Head of Duke CE Labs, Tony O’Driscoll, discussed how this environmental complexity directly affects the […]
Cultivating Effective Communication Practices With the C-Suite
Communicating effectively is more than transmitting information to your audience. The ability to truly engage and influence senior-level executives is a necessity for project leaders, and by exercising the right communication methods, it’s a skill that can be sharpened. 3 keys to communicating effectively include: Knowing your audience Knowing your purpose Knowing what – and […]
The Long-Term Vision of Project Management
Much of a project manager’s role deals with short-term thinking, such as day-to-day tasks. But that is in the process of changing, and managers are likely to start spending more time with teams, developing leadership, and focusing on planning for longer term goals. However, day-to-day tasks still have to be managed, and leaders can’t be […]
Join Our Session at This Year’s PMO Symposium®
Are you attending the upcoming PMO Symposium® 2017 in Houston? Join Tim Wasserman, Strategy Execution’s Chief Learning Officer, and Ed Barrows, Managing Director, Duke Corporate Education, as they discuss the growing and changing demands placed on PMO leaders in today’s complex business world. This #PMOSym session, The Adaptive PMO: Enablers of Effective Project Management Today, will allow leaders to […]
The PMBOK® Guide Has Been Updated: What You Need to Know About the Changes
This year, The Project Management Institute (PMI)® released a major re-organization of the PMBOK® Guide, 6th Edition. The PMBOK® Guide now contains multiple parts and, for the first time, includes The Agile Practice Guide. PMI® has spent considerable effort looking at how project managers get work done in today’s world. While its process doesn’t align […]
How to Leverage Your Project Team to Drive Strategy Execution Success
While a company’s executives may be able to clearly articulate corporate strategy, as you move down the traditional hierarchy to those who get the work done, the link between strategy and projects often breaks down. It’s important for organizations to recognize their project-based workers as “double agents” – that is, those who understand and can […]
Webinar Recap – Becoming an Adaptive Leader: Overcoming Project Breakdowns
At a time when the business world is more volatile and complex than ever before, project-based work has become the norm, rather than the exception. During our most recent #StratExLive webinar, Strategy Execution’s Vice President of Product Management, Jonathan Gilbert was joined by Ed Barrows, Managing Director at Duke Corporate Education, to discuss how these […]
Managing a Team Through Purposeful Communication
Leading a team to the completion of a project can hinge on being able to identify skill gaps that may inhibit success. Often, teams may be made up of individuals who have strong technical skills, but lack relational ones. The best project leaders can transform good teams to great ones by focusing on “soft,” or […]