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📣 We landed on Discord! Five months ago, toget

📣 We landed on Discord!

Five months ago, together with a group of fantastic content creators, experts in Project and Product Management, we were launching our first PM Community Challenge on Instagram to connect and engage people around #PM. An experiment that resulted in the outreach to over 8k people on IG and the validation of a need: there are many individuals like us looking for spaces to network, share, and learn about project and product management, communication, and leadership.

➡️ Here comes our response: a virtual community, hosted on Discord, where #PeopleOfPM can find:

- a professional, safe space to network and talk about real professional experiences in different industries and countries;
- continuous learning opportunities;
- diverse perspectives on how to deal with their challenges.

After a first testing period with a closed group of early adopters, we are now ready to open access to our server.

👾Join free! DM me “Network” to receive the joining info.

What is a servant leader? What are the responsibil

What is a servant leader? What are the responsibilities of leaders today?

More and more it is becoming clear that one person can do very little in today’s fast-pacing, data driven world.

We need teams of people to handle complex topics and team members who are engaged, who are thinking, creating and being empowered to make definitions.

In that scenario, team leaders have to make sure that team members have everything that is necessary to achieve goals, set clear directions and leave team members to find how they can achieve those goals.

What is your definition of a servant leader? What you would add?

#leadership #servantleader #values #trust #thesparkmethod

After a month of fierce competition, great ideas,

After a month of fierce competition, great ideas, submissions and a lot of fun, we've got a winner of our #PMCOMMUNITYCHALLENGE!

See how our finalists fought 🙂

I would like to thank to everyone for a great collaboration, energy, fun and amazing ideas!

Stay tuned via #peopleofpm and follow our work as a team.

#projectmanagement #careerspark #leadership #values

Importance of having trust in a team is easy to un

Importance of having trust in a team is easy to understand. However, the question is: “how we can translate this value to actual behavior”.

Trust means that „i trust you that you will do something”, but often we do not specify what that „something” means.

One great way to translate this conceptual value to actual behavior is through practice called “social contract”.

#CareerSpark #ProjectManagement #leadership #values #trust #teamwork

It's Finals time!!! It was wonderful to read your

It's Finals time!!!

It was wonderful to read your amazing submissions and we had a hard time to choose the best. As a matter of fact, we need your help for that 😊

In the next few days, our #pmchallengecommunity will be posting stories where you can vote and get the best explanation of Project Managers job in one sentence!

Congratulations to our finalists @i.got.this.project @ithedrake @digital_project_management @mergeprojects @lightndlighter @markthejoy @perlajcastro @kings_of_gecco !!!

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Before we move to voting, it’s time to have some honorable mentions and wonderful definitions.

@laskamvam said that Project Management „is the magic wand that makes the world go round one step at the time.”

@anmacik said: „For me it is multitasking to make great things happen, while collaborating with amazing people, who belive in and work on reaching the Northern Star❣”

@katesandmeyer and @guaguirr say that a PM “makes it all happen.”.

@shaik.monsur demostrates no-nonsense approach when saying that a PM “completes the scope without giving excuses.”

@planas_gyvenimas goes big and says that a PM is “the one making everyone happy and everything achieved.”

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What do you think about these submissions? Aren’t they just amazing? 😊

#careerspark #ProjectManagement #values #pmcommunitychallenge

What to do if trust "does not work"? Trust Is abo

What to do if trust "does not work"?

Trust Is about building relations and proving that you are doing what you are saying.

It takes time, conversations, agreements and iterations.

Even if the Answer is complicated, it is definitely not in returning back to micromanagement.

Continue with honest talks, feedbacks and standing behind your words.

Use Escalation as absolutely the last choice, only if nothing else works.

#CareerSpark #theSPARKMethod #values #trust #leadership #ProjectManagement #peopleofpm

Why it is so hard to trust to someone? By giving

Why it is so hard to trust to someone?

By giving control to your team members, and trusting them that they will perform well, you become vulnerable and dependent on your team.

However, that is the necessary step. You are still responsible for your team, but you do not control each step.

It is a hard task. it takes courage to trust to someone and give control away. That is where your courage and maturity comes in.

How do you pracise trust in your team?

#CareerSpark #TheSPARKMethod #values #trust #ProjectManagement

If there is no trust, you easily get to: 1. Micro

If there is no trust, you easily get to:

1. Micro-management. You start to oversee every task, every move and you take responsibility for everything your team does.

2. "Treating people like kids”. Rather to converse and discuss, you are just telling to your team members what to do and try to simplify tasks too much. You do not allow them to think on their own.

3. Control over substance. You concentrate more on control and reporting than on actual work, progress and tasks.

4. Team members emotional detachment. In such circumstances, team members just stop to care and be involved. They will come to work just to finish 8 hours and at the same time search for something else.

5. Low motivation. Your team members will not be motivated to do things better, in a more efficient way or to contribute up to their full potential.

What do you do when you are part of the team when there is a lack of trust?

#careerspark #thesparkmethod #peopleofpm #values #trust #projectmanagement #teamwork

Could you explain a Project Manager's job in one s

Could you explain a Project Manager's job in one sentence?

Help us to find the best answer through #PMCommunityChallenge !

Submit your idea by any of the following ways:

1. DM me;
2. Write it in the comments;
3. Reply to the question sticker in the Story this week.

We will evaluate and share the best ones once the challange is over!

Share and tag #pmcommunitychallenge

#peopleofpm #projectmanagement

What is the latest misunderstanding you've resolve

What is the latest misunderstanding you've resolved just by talking with your team members?

#projectmanagement #missunderstanding #leadership

Have you ever thought that you already act as a Pr

Have you ever thought that you already act as a Project Manager in your daily life?

What example you may add now when you’ve seen this one? 😊

#careerspark #thesparkmethod #career #job #projectmanagement #diy #diyhome

On the leadership note, beautifully summarized in

On the leadership note, beautifully summarized in her Forbes’ article, Liz Ryan says that: ⁠

“Leadership is the strength you gain when you know that you can't do any of the things you need to do at work or hit your goals without relying on the people you work with. That takes courage. We can learn how to trust ourselves and take steps out of our comfort zone, but we don't learn that in a classroom!” ⁠

What is your definition of Leadership?

#careerspark #thesparkmethod #leadership #values #courage

Have you ever thought that you already act as a Pr

Have you ever thought that you already act as a Project Manager in your daily life?
What example you may add now when you’ve seen this one? 😊

#projectmanagement #careerspark #projectmanagement #leadership #complex #values #career #job

Have you make sure that you are choosing a company

Have you make sure that you are choosing a company that takes care about people?

What kind of feedback and opinions you gather before you apply?

#careerspark #thesparkmethod #projectmanagement #leadership #values #humancentric

What are your PM skills in a daily life? #careers

What are your PM skills in a daily life?

#careerspark #thesparkmethod #projectmanagement #projectleader #sharingtips #upskill #learning

It's hard to imagine a healthy working environment

It's hard to imagine a healthy working environment without a set of basic human values that we need to nurture and fight for.

In our careers, we've seen organisations deteriorating and fall apart once when respect is not shown and a trust is lost.

On the other hand, it's possible to repair a broken culture if right people are willing to take a stance and fight for what is right.

We trully believe that in the world of #projectmanagement these values are of fundamental importance. Without them, all we are left are processes and procedures behind which people hide and search for another job in the meantime.

#careerspark #projectmanagementprofessional #feedback #values #leadership #respect #openness #trust #courage #integrity

Would you agree with us? 🙂 As a beginner, you do

Would you agree with us? 🙂

As a beginner, you don’t have to know everything. It’s enough to know how to cooperate with people and create an environment in which they will be willing to share the knowledge.

We mastered that technique during 5 hours of The SPARK Method. Check the link in our bio to get more tips 🙂

#sparkmethod #sharingtips #sharingknowledge #careerspark #leadership #office #learning #courses #projectcontrol #sixsigma #upskill #leanmanagement #projectmanagers #projectmanagementtraining #projectleader #projectmanagementprofessional #5why #rootcauseanalysis #analysisparalysis #problemsolvingskills

This week, we decided to share some tips for stayi

This week, we decided to share some tips for staying productive while working from home, as we are sure that we all need extra motivation from time to time.

It is our new normal reality, and while we are still getting adjusted to all the changes in our lives, we still have to deliver our projects, lead teams, work and balance our personal lives at home.

These are some of the practices that helped us during last couple of months to stay as productive as possible in new reality of home office.

#projectcontrol #sixsigma #upskill #leanmanagement #projectmanagers #projectmanagementtraining #projectleader #projectmanagementprofessional #5why #rootcauseanalysis #analysisparalysis #problemsolvingskills

We would like to concentrate on one of the most im

We would like to concentrate on one of the most important terms not only in #projectmanagement world, but also in whole business world too: feedback.

#feedback is crucial in our advancement as individuals and is the best way to constantly improve. Every feedback is #timetogrow moment.

Do you use feedback as a tool to #grow? Do you ask for feedback often?

#projectcontrol #sixsigma #upskill #leanmanagement #projectmanagers #projectmanagementtraining #projectleader #projectmanagementprofessional #5why #rootcauseanalysis #analysisparalysis #problemsolvingskills

If we fall into a trap and make our audio conferen

If we fall into a trap and make our audio conference a monotonous one where only one or two persons talk, we risk losing the attention of our meeting participants, which eventually leads to experiencing no participation or value added.⁠
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Hence, one of the most important tasks during a meeting is to keep our meeting participants engaged.⁠
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The most effective way to accomplish that is to ask them questions directly by using their first names to address them and keep their attention.⁠
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If we had already invited only relevant participants to our meeting, as discussed previously, then every participant would have something to say during the meeting, which would in turn make our work easier.⁠
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Each participant would have an active role during the meeting and something to add to our current plan.⁠
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#projectmanagement #success #inspiration #selflove #entrepreneur #management #career #workshop #networking #conference #business⁠ #videoconference #covid #zoom #videoconferencing #workfromhome #conference #webinar #video #zoommeeting #technology #videocall #coronavirus #socialdistancing #stayhome #business #staysafe ⁠
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