I took a day off around the 4th of July time. It felt good to take that day off, but I need to take off more than a week. One of my projects is ending next Tuesday, so I scheduled to take a week off. However, the client wants a new project to start right […]
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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 […]
Importance of Empathy in Leadership During a Pandemic
We usually talk about being healthy. I think for a lot of people believe physical health, but a lot of it has to do with your emotional wellbeing and how you’re doing mentally. Please make sure you’re taking care of that as well. What I wanted to talk about today is that leaders need to […]
How I Use Google Calendar to be Extra Productive
Hi everyone. So I want to do a video on the ways that I use Google calendar. I have everything in Google Calendar. If I don’t have this calendar near me and on my phone, I don’t know what’s going on, and I will double book triple book myself. One thing that I did was […]
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 I’ve 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 I’ve 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 […]
How to Use Toggl – A Simple Online Time-Tracking Tool
There are times during this epidemic that I’ve been feeling a little sluggish, and I understand that many of you feel the same. Toggl is a time-tracking tool that has helped me keep track of my time, see where I need to make adjustments, and analyze the changes I need to make to my environment. […]
How to Easily Maintain Your PMP
As I’ve been telling everyone in the other PMP videos that are part of this series, June 30th is when the PMP was supposed to change. But good news due to the current situation that all of us find ourselves in, PMI has decided to extend that change until December 31st. This means that if […]
Practice Social Distancing Tips to Not Go Stir Crazy
As everyone knows in the US, we have been told that the isolation period has been extended to April 30th. One of the reasons why is because people are still not isolated. I heard that in New York, the police busted a karaoke party with adults and children during the time that they should be […]
Steps to Fill Out the PMP Exam Application
Last week I went over my approach to getting ready to take the PMP exam, and how it got me ready to take and pass it the first time. This week I talk about how to fill out the application. When I first saw the application, I was a bit frightened because it’s comprehensive. PMP […]