Learn To Manage More Effectively With Priority Matrix
Management is hard. Here are some tips on how to make it slightly less hard.
When you create a Simple Gantt Chart, it provides an easy-to-follow visual path of your project schedule, which is why it’s an essential tool for project managers. Some Gantt chart software even allows you to track progress right in your Gantt chart. Read on for instructions on creating a simple Gantt chart! What Is A…
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Welcome to part three of our managerial essentials series. In this week’s edition, we talk about… Team Collaboration Almost all business units could benefit from more effective team collaboration. When team communication is strong enough to allow for decentralization of project workflow and task delegation, your team can accomplish goals with maximum efficiency, as each…
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In this week’s edition of our management essentials series, we focus on harnessing emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence comprises both your personal and social competence and has a dramatic effect on how you relate to your employees. Because this characteristic isn’t correlated with traditional measures of intelligence, it’s impossible to know the extent of someone’s emotional intelligence…
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Last April, we launched our management essentials series, focused on helping managers, executives, and entrepreneurs get and stay effective. We rolled out two parts, in which we discussed “thinking big picture” and staying proactive. Now, we’re relaunching our series with five new parts, which we’ll be posting on Tuesdays from now until the New Year,…
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Delegating is no small feat; sometimes, it feels like as soon as other people get involved, even simple projects become far too complicated. To combat this, some of us try to go for it alone, containing the situation as much as possible, until eventually, we burn out or lose control. Rather than driving yourself crazy…
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This is part of our management essentials series of articles on leadership, management, and prioritization. This is skill #2 for top 10 skills for managers: Successful managers need to understand the greater purpose, have the big picture in mind, and work relentlessly towards the end goal. At first, it may seem that this particular skill…
Read moreWelcome to our series on management essentials skills, focused on helping managers, executives and entrepreneurs get and stay effective. We will cover management skills, management techniques, as well as best practices we’ve learned in helping thousands of managers and executives succeed in the workplace. If you like what you read, consider signing up for Priority Matrix,…
Read moreOn the heels of our previous post (Making a status report with Priority Matrix), I just wanted to talk about different formats that you might use for an employee weekly status report template. We’ve compiled a few templates from other sources below. Before digging deeper, let’s also review WHY you’d want to make a weekly…
Read moreWhat is SWOT analysis? This is a method taught in business school and used by aspiring managers to visually organize and describe the competitive landscape. If you want to learn how to conduct a SWOT analysis using software, here’s a video tutorial on how to conduct a SWOT analysis with Priority Matrix. Otherwise, in this post,…
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