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How to Say Goodbye When a Workmate Leaves

by Alec Satin

Saying Goodbye to Colleagues: The Great Cube Cleanout continues to touch a chord with people as evidenced by comments and email messages. That post was written from the perspective of the one leaving.
As a follow up, here are some thoughts on what to do when you stay and someone else leaves.
Don’t Lie
Some people are not all that pleasant to work with. If the person leaving is someone you don’t care for, the saying, If you can’t think of anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all is good to remember. It’s sometimes far easier to say all kinds of [...]

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Be a Wildly Successful Project Manager – Do What You Say You’re Going To Do

by Alec Satin

Here are the 10 Keys:

Develop a consistently positive attitude.
Make wise choices.
Believe in your abilities.
Be a master at setting goals and achieving them.
Have a clear vision of what success means to you and to
your project.
Develop steady, positive habits.
Show persistence.
Over-communicate.
Be transparent.
Do what you say you will do without exception.

This is item 10 in the Being a Wildly Successful Project Manager Series. You can read the first article here.
Let your Yes Be Yes
One of the quickest ways to be effective on your project is to consistently do what you say. This means you do exactly what you say. You do it when [...]

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Phyrric Victory or When the Medicine is Worse Than the Disease – The Project Manager from Hell Series

by Alec Satin

This is an article in the Project Manager from Hell Series. Each entry is based on a real life situation. I’ll include what the project manager did, what happened next, and what they could have done to get things back on track. My goal in telling these stories is to help you and I both avoid making similar mistakes on our own projects. Ready to be horrified? Let’s begin.
First A Few Rules About Trust
Rule 1. If you can’t trust the people on your team, you have a problem.
Rule 2. If you can’t trust anyone, you have a bigger problem. You [...]

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Is the Project Manager an Overseer?

by Alec Satin

(Image by dunechaser on flickr)
Intro
Which of the following vignettes are closest to your model of a good project manager?
James
James sees himself as the boss. His Microsoft Project
schedule is taken down to the 4 hour level. All assigned resources
are expected to provide detailed status reports by Friday 4pm. All
task assignments are reviewed in his Monday morning project status
meeting. James reviews every task for quality, and sends most back for
rework. He often makes final changes to team member deliverables
himself to ensure that they are up to his personal standards.
Kathy
Kathy also keeps detailed Microsoft Project schedules. She sends email updates with links to [...]

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Are You a Project Manager from Hell?

by Alec Satin

If you are like most people, you can think of at least a few terrible project managers.
These may be people who have supervised you directly or who you’ve witnessed interact destructively with their direct reports.
There’s a strange disconnect here. Even though we all know of these managers, virtually none of us would consider ourselves a project manager from hell. Are we deceiving ourselves? Or, are we really immune to this behavior we so quickly condemn in others?
The project manager from hell series
Poor managers are the biggest threat to successful projects. Like most of you reading this, I have witnessed firsthand [...]

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