7 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year and Be a Better Leader
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Be a better leader and kick-start your New Year with these seven simple tips and inspirational quotes.
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Who Needs a New Year's Resolution?
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Another year. It’s the time when many people make a New Year’s resolution to improve their health or wellbeing. But do New Year’s resolutions work?
A Framework for Leadership—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories
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The Lazy Leader’s Rough Guide to Leadership Models continues with a concise and practical introduction to Michael Fullan’s framework for leadership
Reporting Project Progress Using the Highlight Report
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To be honest, I’m not a big fan of the highlight report. The PRINCE2 term given to a project progress report. This is, in part because they tend to describe a project in the present rather than forecasting its state when it should be completed.
Strategies For Managing Project Progress
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What strategies do you use for managing project progress? How do you face up to reality, especially when things go awry? Here are a few tips that I’ve acquired over the years.
Project Planning In a Nutshell
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Do you get hung up on project planning? Do you think it is unnecessary or takes up too much time? In this post, we explain why project planning is an essential activity that will help you to achieve your goals.
Issue 2: The Nature of Leadership
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Over the coming weeks, I intend to show you what it means to be a leader. I’ll present a simple framework that describes how to practice lazy leadership and make a difference in your early leadership career. I will draw from my experience and support this with popular and theoretical perspectives.
How to Use RAG Status Ratings to Track Project Performance
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Project progress reports often use the traffic light rating system or RAG status definition as a visual cue to project performance.
Issue 1: Welcome to the Lazy Leader Newsletter!
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This is the first issue of my newsletter, and I truly appreciate your interest as an early subscriber. I’m still finding my feet and working out how best to prepare and structure new content, so please have a look around and tell me what you think.
3 Truths to Grow Your Leadership For the Long Term
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Leaders face an overwhelming number of opportunities to improve, create change and make the world a better place.
The Lazy Leader’s Guide to Project Schedule and Cost Estimation
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In this article, the Lazy Leader takes a practical look at project schedule and cost estimation before explaining how to estimate project costs.
4 Reasons Why Project Planning Is Essential
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The project planning process is holistic and encompassing. This post describes the process using a simple and easy to remember mnemonic.
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Leadership Skills
In today’s uncertain times, organizations must utilize all of their assets—know-how, technology, and people—to survive. As a leader, you have a great opportunity to champion inside your organization. But what do you need to do to influence people and change?
Leading Change
Leading in a culture of change is less about following process steps and far more about understanding and insight. Do you have the confidence and capability to take risks and navigate your team through change?
Personal Learning
Connect with our community to tap into a broad wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise, and learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. Are you ready to reach your full potential?
Project Management
We all want to be a project manager, right? But what does being a project manager mean, and how can we strengthen our project management skills to successfully engage others, enthusiastically plan and control tasks, and identify and manage risk?
Leadership Teams
We all manage teams, yes? And how often is poor performance at the root of those issues that give us so much grief? So, what do we need to do to create and sustain high-performance teams?
Strategy Tools
The essential and the most popular business strategy tools for anyone who has to work with people. The Lazy Leader offers well-researched and well-explained strategy tools that are easy to understand. Do you want to improve yourself? Or do you want to understand and improve others?
How to Guides
Our how-to guides will help you and challenge you. Our topics include personal learning, self-reflection, managing teams and leading change, and are always brief and straight to the point. So let us help you solve problems!
Models and Theories
Because there are so many models and frameworks of leadership, it can get a little confusing. So, the Lazy Leader offers members the Rough Guide to Leadership Models. In this series, we present various leadership models clearly and concisely, so you may reflect on what they have to offer you.
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