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Leadership tip #9: See & Stop Micromanagement—Learn to Trust Instead

Johanna Rothman

You and your managers might have trained people not to take chances, not to experiment. The more you do that, the more you train the people you lead and serve not to learn and experiment. Ask for a regular cadence of demos, too. The more often you see a demo, the more often you can see the team succeed.

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Epicflow Implementation Guide: Essential Steps and Best Practices

Epicflow

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. User training and adoption.

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Three Slightly Ranty Thoughts on “Back” to Normal

Johanna Rothman

That expert didn't receive management training. I suggested ways in Leadership Tip #9 about micromanagement.). I like starting with trust and asking if people understand the work; if they need anything; and when I can expect to see a demo or results. No one suggested any management book to read.

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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

The senior manager has P&L (Profit and Loss) responsibility for the entire product line, including Product Management (for this product line), Customer Support, Training, etc. I am using the word serve as in servant leadership. Again, I am not saying this is the only way a product organization would look, but this is a possibility.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. But that was about it. Awesome, okay.

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Consultant Marketing Solo DoubleTrouble

Jerry Fletcher

With experience you were moved more and more into leadership but seldom if ever did you select the people on your team. The training requires that you use the labels assigned by the assessment on a daily continuing basis to use it to your greatest advantage. See Jerry’s speaker demo reel. Teams can trump persuasion.