article thumbnail

The Training Phase in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

The first step starts with training, the learning of technical skills, soft skills, and time management skills. Your critical thinking, technical skills, and presentation skills need to remain sharp, and there is always room to improve your networking and soft skills.

article thumbnail

Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

Major Responsibilities Research Team Coordination (35%) Maintain meeting minutes while attending project and laboratory meetings Assign and follow up upon assigned tasks with team members within online project management software (e.g., Google Docs and sheets) Maintain integrity of confidential data (e.g.,

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

We Need a Better Way to Visualize People’s Skills

Harvard Business

And simply collecting data is not enough – to be used, data has to be presented usefully. GitHub is a social networking site for web developers to collaborate on open-source code management. While HR departments are eager for better “people analytics,” that concept is still fuzzy. One potential model is GitHub.

Talent 28
article thumbnail

Stop Letting Email Control Your Work Day

Harvard Business

One of the very first lectures I give each year to new MBA students is about time management. By the time they arrive in my classroom, they are two days into the fall term, and I can already see that some of them are barely keeping their heads above water. Covey’s time management matrix is a good tool for this.

article thumbnail

How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

” You should also strategize about how you’ll manage “the optics” of working from home in terms of “being present on email and available by phone,” she says. “Your manager needs for other people to not see your schedule as a four-day week.” ” And then back off.

How To 39
article thumbnail

You Know You Need More Sleep. Here’s How to Get It.

Harvard Business

Leaders must manage the present while preparing for the future. If you have no team members who are qualified to do the work, either further develop the ones you have or recruit new team members who are qualified. .” In contemporary language, the work of a leader is never done.

How To 35