Podcast Transcript I love my company because we’re not like some other companies (or some that I’ve been part of) that will just lay you off. We really tried to find other projects that could take people. So we don’t have to do any layoffs. And I am glad to report that we haven’t had […]
Browsing Tag: project management
Leaders, Work/Life Balance Starts With You
Shevonne talks about the news that some countries are creating a law to stop employers from contacting employees outside of work hours. It shows how leaders are the ones who help work/life balance for themselves and their employees.
Six Reasons Projects Fail
Video Transcript Hello, everyone; hopefully, you had a wonderful week. My name is Shevonne. And I talk about productivity, work/life balance, and what I have learned throughout my career, especially now as a program manager slash project manager. So I wanted to talk about why projects fail. Yes, projects fail. You’ll probably have a project […]
10 Leadership Tips for Project Managers
Video Transcript Hi, everyone; hopefully, you had a wonderful start to 2022. I wish I could say the same. I will say that 2022 has started with a bang and is not good. But what I wanted to talk about is the honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. His birthday is coming next week, and […]
Which Project Management Certification to Get? Google, CAPM, or PMP
A couple of months ago, I released a video all about the Google Project Management Certificate. There seems to be a lot of interest in the certificates that Google is offering. They also have other areas such as Data Analytics and other IT-related certificates. But I wanted to focus on the project management one because […]
Do I Need to Get a Project Management Certification or Take Courses?
I’ve been getting a lot is, do I need to take courses in project management or get a certification of some sort? So my answer is it depends. There are really two types of people who are at work. They’re either people who are leading others, or they’re people who are individual contributors. And either […]
Should You Get the Google Project Management Certificate?
(00:06): Hi everyone. So I spend time talking about the PMP in the past. And for those who don’t know, the PMP is usually the gold standard for certifications when it comes to project management. But one thing that I found out last year, and it’s taken me a while to make this video, is […]
PowerPoint Project Timeline Tool for Project Managers
Office Timeline is a great tool to create visually-pleasing timelines for your PowerPoint presentation. They also have it as an online tool that works in your browser. This video discusses why I love it so much and have been using it for years. If you constantly have to create timelines for your projects that you […]
How to Have a Successful Project Kickoff Meeting
I had three new projects start as well as an MBA class, which was all on investment analysis. It was ending, on top of having to do a project, final exam, study for those, starting a new class. I want to share with you the presentation slides that Iβve created, as well as how I […]
5 Lessons I’ve Learned Managing Technical Teams
Hi everyone! Hopefully you had a good start to the week. This was probably the most tiring Monday that Iβve had in a long time. I had meetings from 9AM to almost 6 PM. Two projects had sprint planning sessions, and I was prepping for two others tomorrow. I am pretty exhausted, and I still […]