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Management Habit 7 – Review and Learn

by Jacqui Hogan on January 31, 2012 · No Comments

It’s all going well , and you’ve started to get comfortable with this management business. Or perhaps it isn’t going well and you are now looking for someone to blame. Stop! Effective Managers take time to review what is going well and what could be improved going forward without assigning blame. They know that assigning [...]

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Management Habit 3 – Understand the Priorities

by Jacqui Hogan on January 27, 2012 · No Comments

Before I started my own consultancy business, I worked for an international IT outsourcing organisation. We took on a major project to design the adminstration system to mange free TV licenses for people over the age of 75. Now, I can’t tell you who the client was, but suffice to say, they were made up [...]

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Management Habit 2 – Define clear goals

by Jacqui Hogan on January 26, 2012 · No Comments

Many years ago, in a very rash state of mind, I declared that I was going to become a black belt in Karate. I wasn’t especially fit, but having been brought up on a steady diet of Bruce Lee films, I had the romantic vision of being able to defend myself against all possible physical [...]

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7 bad habits of ineffective managers

by Jacqui Hogan on January 6, 2012 · No Comments

Poor managers mean spiralling costs, lousy performance and miserable people. Here are some of bad habits to watch out for (and what to do about them!) This isn’t you……or is it? Bad Habit #1 – Going through the motions Bad Managers aren’t very self-aware. They wait to be told what to do and how to [...]

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7 New Years Business Resolutions

by Jacqui Hogan on January 31, 2011 · 1 Comment

New year’s resolutions can be a bit of a cliche, but this is actually not a bad time of year to take a step back and think about what you want to do next year to make your business more successful. Here are my suggestions:.

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Effective Project Managers are Proactive (Habit 1)

by Jacqui Hogan on January 25, 2011 · 1 Comment

Oh my goodness!When I started out as a Project Manager, long, long ago (before Prince 2 was invented) me and my fellow Project Managers would wait patiently for instructions from the business as to what they wanted me to do. One of our greatest frustrations was…

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7 Habits of an Effective Project Manager

by Jacqui Hogan on January 25, 2011 · No Comments

Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging on the 7 Habits of an Effective Project Manager. These are based on my accumulated experience as a Project Manager, Programme Manager and manager of other Project Managers over the past 30 years or so.

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