Being able to manage a support team successfully, means that you are a project manager who know how to listen and delegate. Yes there are other key skills that a successful project manage need to have in place but listening and delegating are two of the most important one.
Managing a successful support team takes a project manager who is willing to not only work on developing their team but also developing themselves. Below are a list of areas where a project manager should either currently excel in or are developing in as part of their skillset. This list is based …read more

Have you found yourself at the end of a year full of busyness and projects, yet feel that you haven’t accomplished everything? Well, join the crowd because as I listen to many who manage projects, it has been a year of ups and downs. To get a handle on things, I have decided for the New Year not to make a resolution, because those end with good intentions. But I have decided to set goals of making life changes when it comes to project management.
To start things off with a level foundation, I have created an acronym from the letters …read more

CIO Insight’s article on CIOs who take on more roles in the business brings up many issues to ponder. One of them is a potential career path beyond CIO that might be facilitated by a willingness to add roles and responsibilities to a CIO’s portfolio. The story of Beth Perlman, CIO of Constellation Energy, is interesting:
Perlman’s success managing IT and real estate for Constellation Energy resulted in CEO Mayo Shattuck III expanding her role even further, giving Perlman the added title of chief administrative officer [CAO] when he reorganized his executive staff a year ago. She now oversees human resources, …read more

CIO Insight’s great reporting uncovered another trend related to CIOs expanding their roles. Forrestor’s Alex Cullen commented on how CIOs might fit into other parts of the organization:
“We see the broader role more and more in areas like real estate management,” he says. “CIOs make really good chief operating officers for other parts of the business, because there is no more process-oriented or project management-oriented job in the organization.” Adding responsibility may not be a stepping stone to the CEO job, he adds, but it could have positive career consequences.
Process orientation and project management skills seem to be the key, …read more