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Project Management: What an L&D Professional Needs to Know

Clarity Consultants

Along with identifying measurable targets and outlining core goals, L&D professionals must limit scope creep to ensure the project remains on time and on budget. Time Management. Breaking down large projects into smaller milestones helps support reliable time estimations at the outset of a project. Communication.

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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

If you’re searching for ways to deal with scarcity without sacrificing quality or results across your project’s lifecycle, consider these tips on managing resources when supplies of talent, expertise, and time are low. These factors often leave your team little time to react and adjust.

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. For them, this system becomes an Opportunity Filter to evaluate the most optimal uses of your available time and resources. Ultimately, as I have become skilled in using this metric, it has become a calculation I am able to do in my head. Staying Focused.

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

It was meant to be a win-win: Patients and their families would get a better, more personalized hospital experience, and doctors could spend less time managing patients and more time practicing medicine. Unfortunately, Amrita had heard grumbling from physicians from the moment she’d hired the first PCE. .”

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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Difference-making talent is also scarce.