MPUG Category: Team
Tips, Clicks and Tricks to Boosting the Effectiveness of your MS Teams Meeting
Event Description: Run your MS Teams meeting effectively > Boot the effectiveness of your MS Teams meeting Over the past year, we have shifted to using virtual collaboration mechanisms and virtual ...
Best Practices for Managing a Virtual Team
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, many organizations had to pivot from working in the office amongst colleagues to suddenly working from home. For some, it was a first. Today, more people are working ...
Remote Doesn’t Have to Feel So Remote: Seven Questions to Consider
Like any change, remote work has been a challenge for many to integrate. This change to working remotely that many experienced this year as a result of Covid-19 has been even more difficult because th...
How to Navigate Internal Politics as a Project Manager
Office politics. Those two words make some of us want to hide under our desks. Whether we like it or not, every project and organization has its politics. Project politics can be difficult to define, ...
Five Steps for Leading Effective Meetings
Meetings are an integral part of running a project, and they’ve become so ubiquitous that most of our work days include one (or several!). Meetings are intended to bring people together around a speci...
Trust: The Foundation of a Successful Team
For most project managers, daily work includes interactions with other individuals. Your ability to manage these interactions plays an important role in defining your team’s efficiency and effectivene...
How to Build Trust and Effectively Lead Virtual Teams
Working virtually certainly has its perks. There’s no commute! Your lunch is just the short walk to the refrigerator away! You don’t have to wear pants! That said, working remotely can have its pitfal...
How to Identify and Hire a Strong Project Manager
Hiring a new project manager can be stressful and time-consuming. Most employers are looking for the perfect mix of ability and skills, and for someone with a personality that fits with the team’s cul...
Picking the Perfect Project Manager to Oversee a System Selection
Choosing a software system for an organization is something that businesses need to pay special attention to. Such systems do not pick themselves, and when it comes to finding one that is right for yo...