Topic: Project Management Tips & Techniques

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Announcements: Powerful Negotiations Tip of the Day #4

Published on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 06:46 PM

The cost of using a bottom of line

By definition a bottom of line is a position. A bottom line is a limitation, it reduces the incentive to look for a tailor-made solution that would reconcile differing interest.

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By Giancarlo Duranti, PMP

Tips: Powerful Negotiations Tip of the Day #3

Published on Monday, February 09, 2009 - 02:00 PM

Do Not Bargain Over Positions!

Bargaining over positions will make both parties inflexible on an issue, which prevents any form of negotiation. In addition it leads parties away from the real issue.

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By Giancarlo Duranti, PMP

Tips: Powerful Negotiations Tip of the Day #2

Published on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - 03:16 PM

Planning for Negotiation – Frame the Problem

It is important that both parties recognize that they have a common problem and that they have a shared interest to solve it. At this stage parties need to communicate the process clearly and efficiently in order to develop a definition of shared issues.

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By Giancarlo Duranti, PMP

Tips: Powerful Negotiations Tip of the Day #1

Published on Monday, February 02, 2009 - 01:42 PM

Commit to Negotiate for Mutual Gain.
Those project and program professionals who best manage diversity will be winners. Managing diversity is deciding which differences make a difference and enrich, and which differences don’t. In order to see the benefits of diversity, you will need to learn to understand without judging other groups or individuals and too see people more as individuals and less as members of a group. Understand your own subtle stereotyping and don’t be afraid to boldly make the business case for diversity by demonstrating and modeling how it works.

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By Giancarlo Duranti, PMP

Tips: Tip of the day # 10 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Monday, January 19, 2009 - 04:50 PM

An important thing to keep in mind as you read about personality theories is that nobody fits perfectly into the categories presented. An important concept in psychology is the principle of individual differences. No one is a personality theory: The theories are tools for understanding the complexity of human behavior, thought and emotion.

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Tips: Tip of the day # 9 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 08:00 PM

The biggest changes in personality occurs during childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood because young men and women are somewhat more likely to be open to new ideas. Personality is less likely to change after age 30. Observations from over 10,000 pairs of twins indicate that genetic factors significantly influence personality traits. Critics warn that inherited factors should not be exaggerated because 50% or more of the influence on traits comes from environmental factors.

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Tips: Tip of the day # 8 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Monday, January 12, 2009 - 09:11 PM

The mismatch between peoples' personalities and their job doesn't mean that they are unable to do the jobs they are in. It does mean that they are not playing to their strengths and they are likely to find their incompatible jobs more stressful than if they had one more compatible with their personalities. Remember personality can be skewed by what we want to be like or alternatively by what other people have told us we are like.

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Tips: Tip of the day # 7 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Monday, January 05, 2009 - 01:35 PM

Cultivate interpersonal savvy in yourself and your team. Interpersonal savvy is having a range of interpersonal skills and approaches and knowing when to use what with whom. The key is to hold back or neutralize your personal reactions and focus on others first. Being savvy is working from the outside in.

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Tips: Tip of the day # 6 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 02:47 PM

The psychometric questionnaire called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a popular assessment tool for gaining insight into the role of personality in influencing human behavior. Before administering this test or having it administered by a professional read Isabel Briggs Myers’s book Gifts Differing. She does a very good job bringing to life the beauty, the strength and the infinite possibilities of the human personality in all its fascinating varieties. The title says it all.

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Tips: Tip of the day # 5 - Personality Management By Bill Richardson, PMP

Published on Monday, December 15, 2008 - 02:13 PM

Personality psychology, also know a personology, is the study of the whole human individual. Humans are very complicated and with so much going on internally and externally, there is a lack of a single unified theory firmly rooted in solid scientific evidence that everyone can agree on. This is why this field of psychology is seen as the least scientific and the most philosophical.

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Topic: Project Management Tips & Techniques

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