Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

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Without thinking about workplace conversations and communication strategically, you may not have the workplace relationships you desire. Remote work has a way of making this kind of gap glaringly obvious. The first interview was scheduled for 60 minutes, but the interviewers only asked me three questions! I had a lot of questions for them, which ended up taking up rest of the hour, and we had what I thought was a great chat. But I thought the time management for that step in the process was strange. If you’re a project management learner looking for some solid piece of information on teamwork and project success, this is the place to go to. 27. DZone Agile I’ve had a bunch of questions recently from new managers looking for advice. Here’s a round-up of past columns with advice for new managers. What do you wish you could ask a manager? Is it workplace advice about a new opportunity? Is it some insight into how they might react in the situation you’re currently facing?

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Leigh’s years of experience is a great source of knowledge. It puts a lid on all the doubts you can have about the authenticity and effectiveness of content shared. 25. Project Management Hut I can’t answer every question that I receive, but I answer as many as I can get to. Questions that are over 600 words have less chance of being answered. Exceptions are sometimes made for fascinating questions. Be aware that I may publish any question you submit, here or in other media. I won’t print your name, of course; all questions will be kept anonymous. (And no teapot references, I beg you.) the aggressive brownie recipe, the bad math and other times you mortified yourself in job interviews

IIL is one of the leading organizations globally to offer consulting, training, coaching and customized course development for various companies. With contributions from multiple project management professionals and experts with knowledge dominating the project management industry, the IIL offers a rich blog that is yet another resource for looking at the different shades of project management. John Carroll is the author of The Way of the Project Manager. His book focuses on a Taoist approach to surviving in the project management industry. The articles in this blog are based on this book and are great resources for anything you need to know about project management. 12. Easy in Theory, Difficult in Practice

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And then I started doing it every December and it grew to the point where we now have more than I can count each year!Was it out of line to bring such a grotesque “decoration” into the workplace in the first place? I presume others were unsettled as well (though certainly not to the same degree). I have about 20 direct reports, all of whom do complex, niche work for very demanding customers. Simply supporting them and their day-to-day work is a full time job. Yet I’m also responsible for projects that span multiple groups (think dotted line relationships), our interactions with customers and leadership, and high level organizational goals. I am, by all accounts, considered an exceptional manager. Many staff had said I’m the best manager they’ve ever had. Leadership and our partners give me and my team high praise. I’m sought out for advice as both an SME and someone with a high EQ. But I’m incredibly overworked, constantly burned out, and not nearly as well compensated as I should be. Requests for additional support, reduction of direct reports/projects, etc. are met with hand-waving about budgets and advice to “not beat yourself up if things are not perfect”. The subtext there is “don’t worry if you don’t support the people, just get the work done”. I am not alone in this. My experience is the experience of almost everyone who manages in my organization from Team Leads to Directors of divisions. This attractively designed, colorful project management blog is a winner due to its fun interface that definitely does not compromise on the treasure of information it has to offer. With a huge variety of posts regarding project management in the form of: A few members of my team brought in fun, low-key Halloween decor (think, purple construction paper bats and a few faux pumpkin heads), which I complimented. However, another colleague, who is slightly senior to me (and not in my department), brought in an absolutely terrifying “doll” that stood a few feet tall with a grotesque expression and dressed/styled like the girl from The Ring. My office held a Halloween party this week after hours and said in the invitation that kids and significant others were welcome. Some of us brought our young kids (ages 2-5 or so). When we arrived the signs were pretty ghoulish (dismembered bloody body parts, etc), and one employee, “Bob,” brought a very gruesome and realistic zombie puppet that truly terrorized the kids in attendance. The parents are really upset, and would not have brought kids if we knew that there would be this kind of adult Halloween horror.