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Dealing with Stress at Work – Solutions Linkfest

by Alec Satin
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Too busy to even read this post?  If you take just 10 minutes right now ((Take a look now – we both know the likelihood is you won’t get a chance to come back to this post.)) to review these links, you may find an idea or two that could really help.

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PM Twitter Tweets?

by Alec Satin
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Twitter Tweets – Week 12 (March 2009)

Do you twitter?
Twitter, a microblogging platform,  allows you to send and receive free short messages of up to 140 characters.
Tweets can be private (called direct messages) or public.  Twitter is 21st century CB Radio.
Here are selected project management and career twitter tweets from the last few weeks.
How can you use these?

Look for project managers to follow @ravenyoung @sreejith_gce
Scan the topics (Project Management Tools, Efficiency and Productivity, etc.) for subjects of interest to you

Read some or all of the twitter tweets!

Take a look – you might find something that could help you on your project, [...]

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Learning Mind Mapping Linkfest

by Alec Satin
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Mindmapping is a technique that can be helpful to you as a project manager or IT professional.  Mindmaps are most valuable in notetaking, brainstorming by yourself or with a team, and in preparing well organized documents and presentations.  If you like making lists or outlines, you may not immediately see the benefit to mindmaps.   This post may provide you with some ideas on how and why you might want to create some mindmaps for yourself.
Try out Mindmapping
The best way to see the value of mindmapping is to try it out in the next 3 or 4 meetings you attend.  You [...]

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Managing Remote Teams – Lessons Learned Linkfest

by Alec Satin
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For most of us, managing remote team members is one of the more challenging aspects of project management.  By reviewing the articles in this linkfest, you should be able to learn from the experiences of others and hopefully spare yourself some pain.  As before, I’ve attempted to include geographically diverse perspectives where possible.
This collection is targeted to you as a project manager who is leading one or more remote team members.  If you are working as a member of a virtual team, you can gain insight into how to make your remote supervisor’s life a little easier.  Developing this mindset will [...]

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Pleasing Stakeholders Linkfest: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask.

by Alec Satin
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(Okay, perhaps not everything.  And perhaps you didn’t want to know.  But please keep reading – this may be of interest to you.)
Why a Stakeholder Linkfest
This past week I took part in three different conversations in which the success (and in one case failure) of a project could be related back to the relationship the project manager had with the stakeholders.
Key to your success as a project manager is your ability to understand the opportunities, desires and needs of your stakeholders.  You may know this intellectually, but is it part of your day to day practice?  How well do you [...]

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