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Aditi Malhotra is the Content Marketing Manager at Whizlabs. Having a Master in Journalism and Mass Communication, she helps businesses stop playing around with Content Marketing and start seeing tangible ROI. A writer by day and a reader by night, she is a fine blend of both reality and fantasy. Apart from her professional commitments, she is also endearing to publish a book authored by her very soon.

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Project Planning Should Start With 5 W Questions

Project Planning is one of the most important process in the life cycle of a project. A perfect planning can improve the chances of success of any kind of a project. During initiating process and beginning of planning process, it is important to find the answers to five W’s questions before moving to the “How” part of the project. PMP Certification Preparation – Start with Free Test Now! 1. What – This is the very first W which is very essential, it form the basis for scope definition. “What is the project all about and what is the outcome?” It is […]

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How To Manage Stakeholders’ Conflicts

Stakeholder involvement is critical to the success of every project no matter how big or small it is. The more the project manager understands stakeholder influences, expectations, and impacts, the easier it is to manage all the issues and risks proactively. The benefits of analyzing the impact of stakeholders are: Identify powerful and influential stakeholders- Seek their input and suggestion, to improve the quality of your project from the very beginning. Try to gain support from influential stakeholders, it can help you to win right set of resources at the right time, increasing the success rate of your project. Ensure

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Challenges Faced By Project Leaders In Their Organization

With everyday change in technology and market demands, all of us face lots of challenges in our work and career. It became extremely important for each one to grow irrespective of the kind of industry he is working in. Different project and teams are mentored and guided by leaders. Good leaders have committed team members who believe in the vision of their leader. They set direction and time frames and have the ability to attract good talent to work for them. Leaders inspire a vision and get things done through others by earning loyalty, respect, and cooperation from the team

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What Are The Top Reasons People Generally Resist Change

Generally most of us like to stay in our comfort zone and are generally reluctant for any kind of change be it personal or professional. Every person has his own working style and with time we are so accustomed to it that we cannot think of doing it in any other way even if we are provided multiple benefits of switching to better and latest way. Reasons why people are reluctant to adapt the changes Fear of mistakes due to misunderstanding or any incorrect learning. Doubt on one’s capability to adapt the change smoothly- When people feel that they won’t

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Working Late Everyday- Are Reasons Genuine Enough?

What are the primary reasons of spending extra hours in the company?  Is it time mismanagement or to impress your manager or any other. List of reasons why people work late almost everyday Company Culture: In certain companies people work late every day and automatically they become so habitual that it becomes the culture of the company. People who joins later on, also start following the same culture without questioning about it. Time mismanagement: Some resources are very bad in time management and prioritizing their work so they are unable to complete the work assigned to them in stipulated time.

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How To Do Project Reviews

Project review is one of the most important task of a project manager. It is so critical that if it is not done effectively, it can lead to adverse consequences including failure of the project. So a project manager needs to take it very seriously. Project review must be done phase wise, one should spend good amount of time to review the phase once it is complete. It is recommended to do a quick mini health check about it, so that the project is ready to go into the next phase. Typically, a project manager do about three project phase

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Strategies For Keeping People Engaged During Meetings And Conference Calls

Today advance technology and communication methods have made our life very easy. There is no need to spend a large amount on travelling to attend a meeting. Technology has made it so easy that ten different people sitting in ten different locations can attend a meeting. On the top of it they can even see each other using video conferencing technique. Meetings are relatively easy now and conference calls and bridge calls are very common these days. It depends on the host of the meeting to manage it effectively so that the outcome of the meeting meets his expectations. At

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When And How To Delegate Tasks

Today with tremendous work pressure on every individual, the demand of proper work management is all the more important. The best way to come out of it is delegate tasks which can be delegated. There are managers who expects you to work 15 hours a day. They needed your comments on one document. And you have not even finished it, you are asked for another document completed in 2 days. Next day your manager already sent you two emails asking the status of the new document. Such managers only knows how to bark orders at the team, not realizing that

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Project Kick-off Meetings With Internal And External Stakeholders

A Project Kick-off meeting is essential prior to every project from very small like a month’s project to big ones of 5 to 10 years duration. This meeting is a base for initiating the high level discussion to engage the team and critical stakeholders. At times project managers had to decide which kick-off meeting to conduct first the one with external stakeholders or the one with internal stakeholders. When the requirements/objective is unclear or partially known, it is recommended to have a Kick-off meeting with the customer first for 3 reasons. Gives clarity to the objective of the project. You can

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Is It Your Second Attempt For PMP Exam – Check Out What To Do

There are two kinds of people, first kind are the ones who are easily influenced by others, they trust others more than themselves. They take decisions basis others’ judgment. If 5 out of 8 people says PMP is tough and hard to crack they would believe it and quit without even trying. If majority say its moderate and go through PMBOK twice and take 2-3 mock tests and it is easy to crack. They would think it is very easy and would take it very lightly, resulting in a failure. The second kind of people only believe in themselves, they

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