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Why Integrating Risk Management Into Projects Is Important
Integrating risk management is critical for project success. Here’s how professionals are making risk a priority.
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How Project Leaders Can Build Resilient Teams
Resilient teams face challenges head-on, but teams don’t become resilient overnight. Here are three ways project leaders can build resilient teams.
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The Path to Project Success: Essential Project Skills for Young Professionals
With demand for project managers rising, the future is bright for young professionals with the right skills. Here’s why.
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Power Skills are Human Skills
Communication, leadership, collaboration, empathy… these are some of the power skills that help to build strong teams and successful businesses.
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The Value of a PMO
Regardless of your project approach, expertise or industry, here are ways the project management office (PMO) offers value to organizations.
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How AI is Changing the Role of Project Leaders
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent, project leaders will need to shift everything from where they focus their efforts to the skillsets they prioritize.
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Tips for Adopting Agile Approaches
Agile approaches help teams deliver value faster. Here’s how companies can adjust and start adopting agile ways of working.
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How Project Managers Can Improve Their Strategic Decision Making
Four ways project professionals can make better decisions — and ensure their project’s success.
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Quick Hits: Krishna Kumar Nanjundaprasad, PMP
On the value of empathy, servant leadership and happiness.
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Learning from NASA: James Webb Space Telescope
Learn how improved communication and collaboration helped NASA’s project team overcome setbacks and launch the James Webb Space Telescope in this case study.
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3 Ways to Minimize Project Turnover
Keeping projects on track amid turnover can be challenging. Here are three ways to keep projects moving.
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Quick Hits: Temitope Ajanaku, PMP
On the power of communication, nonstop learning and empowering women leaders
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Optimizing Information Retrieval Is Key to Saving Time
Learn how to find more time in your day by applying operational efficiency expert Nick Sonnenberg’s CPR® Framework.
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3 Tips for Getting C-Suite Buy-In
Three tips to help project professionals get C-suite buy-in on project priorities.
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Pro Tips: Sustaining Agility
Project leaders can maintain a change-ready culture by fostering collaboration, empowering teams to solve problems and putting people first.
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How Project Leaders Can Turn Strategy into Reality
Emmanuel Tackie, PMP, PgMP, reinforces rigor, curiosity and transparency to ensure his teams deliver strategic value.
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Quick Hits: Chathurika Prabodani Gunathilaka
On the power of effective communication, taking ownership of deliverables and the influence of Lee Kuan Yew.
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Should the PMO Be Your Next Career Move?
Lindsay Scott also gives tips on interview presentations and networking at chapter events.
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5 Predictions for the Future of Project Management
A group of project professionals looks at the factors that will shape and shift the future of project management.
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Pro Tips: How to Communicate Urgent Requests to Stakeholders
To get prompt and clear stakeholder responses, project professionals need strong communication, consistent engagement—and a backup plan.
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Need to Know: Active Listening
Sahar Kanani, PMP, explains how receiving information with intention can build trust and boost outcomes.
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Coping with Talent Shortages
A look at what’s driving continued talent shortages in project management with global expert Kevin Korterud who shares why organizations must prioritize training and enable PMOs.
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Project Career Moves: Construction
Want a career in construction that’s built to last? Focus on strong leadership, get ahead of the tech curve and show your appetite for learning.
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Project Career Moves: Consulting
Project management consulting offers a career with flexibility, full of unique challenges and experiences. Developing your power skills, particularly listening, problem-solving and collaboration, is…
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Project Career Moves: ESG
Curiosity, adaptability and strong reporting skills will position you to work on projects that address environmental, social and governance issues.
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Project Career Moves: Financial Services
Want a financial career you can bank on? Invest in developing a digital-first, user-centric mindset.
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Project Career Moves: PMOs
How can you build a thriving career in a PMO? Become a strategic thinker who can facilitate change and deliver value.
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2023 Project Management Tips
A new year provides opportunities for project leaders. Here are four key project management tips for 2023 from leading professionals.
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Switching to a Project Career? Here’s Where to Start
Lindsay Scott also reveals the value of self-assessments and the need to prioritize post-nominals.
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How PMOs Can Scale a Change-Ready Culture
PMO leaders who balance a strategic vision with empathy can elevate agility and resilience, says Cathy Hoenig of Rivian Automotive. But the value must be underscored to executives and peers alike.
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Need to Know: Artificial Intelligence
Geetha Gopal, PMP, explains how AI’s data-driven capabilities can help teams achieve outcomes more quickly—and with greater accuracy.
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Pro Tips: How to Find the Right Mentor
Making strong and relevant professional connections can help project managers find the right fit for career guidance
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Quick Hits: Yassine Hounsali, PMP
On the power of communication, positive reinforcement and emotional intelligence.
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The Checklist Every OPM Initiative Needs
Use this checklist from The Standard for Organizational Project Management to help evaluate your organization’s OPM readiness or framework maturity.
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Five Ways Future PMOs Will Support Organizations
From helping to set strategic direction to defining new ways of working, here is a look at the responsibilities that leading PMOs are taking on as they evolve for the future.
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Improving Team Collaboration at NASA
PMI recently spoke with Ginger Kerrick about working at NASA and her tips for putting together successful project teams.
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Need to Know: Conflict Management
Soumya Maitra, PMP, explains how active listening and finding common ground can resolve project disagreements.
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Which PMO Is Right for Your Organization?
EPMO? Departmental? Individual? Supportive? Controlling? The choice comes down to a company’s strategic project needs.
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How Can Project Leaders Elevate ESG?
Angela Ortiz explains how her role helps a U.S. utility company sustain its ESG commitment by focusing on risk, measuring impact and showing the long-term value.
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Decoding Job Descriptions: Which Responsibilities Matter Most?
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for answering the “relocation” question and tracking project complexity.
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Fulfilling the promise of UN SDGs
Four project leaders explain how organizations can rebuild momentum to achieve targets that will deliver environmental and social impact.
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Pro Tips: Building a Collaborative Mindset
Building trust and mastering emotional intelligence can help forge collaboration across teams.
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Need to Know: Empathy
Karen Smits explains how elevating a critical power skill can spark authentic engagement and long-term project benefits.
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Quick Hits: Patrick Terkpertey, PMP
On the need for empathy, the power of unlearning and adapting for the future.
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How PMOs Can Build a Talent Pipeline
By fine-tuning how they identify and upskill project talent, PMO leaders can build a team that will become a strategic force.
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Pro Tips: How to Manage Stress
Project leaders can keep teams resilient by identifying pain points, showing empathy and maintaining strong communication.
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Job Search: Find Help from Your Network
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for building business acumen and how to turn down a promotion.
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Need to Know: U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Scarlett Lanzas explains how project leaders can boost alignment—and impact—for SDGs.
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Metaverse Trailblazers: Real Impact for a Virtual World
By rethinking expectations, forging collaboration and embracing innovation, project leaders can help deliver a first-mover advantage.
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Q & A: Laszlo Bock
PMI recently spoke with the former Google executive and New York Times bestselling author about his mission to develop better managers and improve everyone’s work experience.
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Quick Hits: Shikha Vaidh, PMI-ACP, PMP
On the art of leadership, the value of self-care and the inspiration of Chak De! India
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AI’s Mainstream Reality
The surge of AI adoption that began during the pandemic seemingly continues — and that’s creating opportunities and challenges for project managers.
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Building a Strategy for Working in a PMO
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for assessing the value of data-centric roles and comparing your skills to job descriptions.
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Pro Tips: How to Accelerate Onboarding
Frequent communication, dedicated mentors and emphasizing org culture can help new hires get up to speed.
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Need to Know: Servant Leadership
Waleed Said Elmhrate, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, explains how project leaders can give their teams room to grow.
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The Factory of the Future
COVID-19 laid bare some major gaps in the manufacturing world. Here’s how one organization is embracing data and digital transformation to change the situation.
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Quick Hits: Thaís Carvalho-Gomes, PMP
On the power of empathy, the value of planning and how to achieve work-life balance.
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Pro Tips: Agile Revelations
Here’s how project leaders have found new ways to turn iterative approaches into big project wins.
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Become Your Own Project
A rising project leader shares her professional development journey while energizing her company’s PMO.
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Choosing the Right Scrum Training Path
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for returning to a job after a long absence, going back to professional conferences and raising your LinkedIn game.
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Four Ways to Hone Your Power Skills—and Advance Your Career
Aspiring project leaders can reinforce their learning and seek leadership opportunities through mentors, self-assessments, volunteering and spreading the word.
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Four Tips for Building a Psychologically Safe Team
Creating an environment where employees can freely speak up is the key to creating high-performing teams.
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Five Tips for Being Prepared for Supply Chain Disruption
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed risks in the supply chain. Three project managers give their advice for ensuring these vulnerabilities don’t derail future project work.
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Need to Know: Boomerang Hires
Thinking about bringing someone back? Kerstin Wagner explains what factors to weigh.
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A Quick Guide to Incorporating Sustainability Into Your Projects
ESG is becoming crucially important for business outcomes as demands for action increase. Get started with this brief guide to maintaining a sustainable focus on your projects.
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Charley’s Story: Supporting a Team of Colleagues in Ukraine
Charley Miller has built a relationship with a team of project managers in Ukraine for over 13 years. He shares insights for working with and supporting this community.
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Alex’s Story: Working to Make Sure Ukraine is Open for Business
Alex Sobol was able to regain her footing after experiencing bombs falling on her street. Learn why it is so important for her to continue her project work.
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Kate’s Story: Building a Career While Supporting a Country at War
Kate Abramova saw war interrupt her career and uproot her family. Read about her project work and how it has helped her heal and carry on.
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Ryta’s Story: Finding Peace in a Small Village During War
Ryta Popova was able to relocate to a small Ukrainian village to continue her work. She explains why global support is critically important.
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Tetyana’s Story: Grateful for a Temporary Home in Poland
Tetyana Yakuba looks forward to applying knowledge from earning her PMP certification to grow her career. Read about her life in Poland and hopes for Ukraine.
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Building a Hybrid Workspace for the Future
Canada’s Fraser Health managed complexity to deliver a workplace transformation—and a blueprint for change.
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Collective Roar: A Global Tiger Recovery Effort
By forging collaboration, WWF and other orgs are helping countries change their conservation stripes and build a sustainable future for tigers.
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How to Search for a New Job—With Confidence
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for transitioning into a project role and knowing when it’s time to move on.
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Need to Know: Quantum Computing
Kanav Setia, PhD, explains how project leaders can prepare for the next great technological disruption.
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A Safer Path for Ships
Construction on the world’s first ship tunnel is set to begin this year in Norway.
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Seven Steps to Build a More Inclusive Work Culture
Take these seven steps to create an inclusive culture where workers can be themselves in a setting that supports optimal performance.
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Building the Talent Pipeline With DE&I
Skills training and creating diverse, inclusive workplaces are key factors in attracting and retaining talent, and support positive business outcomes.
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Pro Tips: Finding New Ways to Celebrate
To keep teams engaged, project leaders need to get creative to recognize and reward strong performance.
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Rethinking Risk Management
In a world of uncertainty, proactive planning and innovative thinking will help project leaders prepare for the great unknown.
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Become Future-Ready Through Resilience, Learning and Collaboration
Cutting-edge organizations create environments that allow employees to grow and solve complex problems.
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How to Find the Right Mentor for Your Career
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for (not) publishing a book, unretiring and building a business case for professional development.
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Managing the Risk of Natural Disasters
As the number of natural disasters increase, organizations will need to understand the risk and how to prepare for the potential fallout.
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Climate Resilience Is a “Must-Have”
Ban Ki-moon sets an agenda for tackling the climate crisis in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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KICKOFF In Action
A look at how one professor leveraged KICKOFF™ to offer students a tool for learning and practicing the key components of project management.
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A Better Way to Design Buildings
Virtual reality is making it possible for architects to collaborate with team members and clients.
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Creating a Culture That Attracts and Retains Talent
The best way to attract and keep talent is to create a culture where employees feel supported, motivated and valued. Here are five ways companies can safeguard their most important asset… their…
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Need to Know: Emotional Intelligence
Dev Ramcharan, PMP, explains how people-centered leadership can elevate teams.
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Which Skills Can Make You a Better Leader?
Lindsay Scott also shares tips for how remote workers can maintain influence and how to explain pandemic work gaps.
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Pro Tips: How to Engage Sponsors
To keep sponsors in the loop, project leaders need to tailor communication, emphasize strategic goals and listen with a purpose.
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Three Ways to Keep Your ESG Projects on Track
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are pushing sustainability from a one-off project outcome to a core business practice.
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How to Build a Change-Ready Mindset Across Teams
To develop a culture of agility, project leaders must put team members at the center of the action.
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Uncovering the Hidden Layouts of Brazil’s Favelas
A digital-mapping project could help cities connect with marginalized communities.
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Quick Hits: Gbolahan Pearl Oyelakin, PMI-RMP, PMP
On effective problem-solving, digital transformation and the legacies of architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Zaha Hadid.
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Three Ways New Leaders Can Find Their Voice
A Q & A from Lindsay Scott, director of program and project management recruitment at Arras People.
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Making Vegan Mainstream
Project teams are testing the boundaries of meatless innovations to satisfy the growing appetite for animal-free alternatives.
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The Future of Sustainable Fashion
One of the biggest moments at Paris Fashion Week 2021 wasn’t a particular cut, color or designer. Instead, it was a capsule collection from luxury French automobile brand DS Automobiles and French…
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Need to Know: Citizen Development
The demand for DIY software solutions is surging. Amid a shortage of skilled programmers and an acceleration of automation, project teams are increasingly turning to citizen development.
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Six Ways to Build Sustainability into Projects
Addressing climate change is everyone’s responsibility. A new report offers a detailed look at how the Climate Crisis is making organizations rethink and retool their business models.
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The Drive for Neutral
Electric vehicle maker Polestar has announced it will build the world's first climate-neutral car by 2030.
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Five Tips to Turn Digital Disruption into a Competitive Advantage
These tips will help project professionals thrive amid ongoing digital uncertainty.
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Quick Hits: Haryanni Masarip, PMI-ACP, PMP
Masarip on honesty, learning, Boyan Slat and the power of karaoke.
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The New World
Future 50 project leaders discuss how the post-pandemic rise in virtual teams has led to a shift in how they communicate.
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Pro Tips: How to Empower Women Project Leaders
To boost their careers, women project professionals can focus on growing their power skills and making influential connections.
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Salary Survey Snapshot
Location matters when it comes to how much project professionals get paid—but it’s not the only factor.
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From Agility to Humility, Become a Better Project Leader in 2022
We asked project professionals from around the world: What are the must-have skills for the new year?
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The Great Resignation: How Both Sides Can Benefit
Voluntary turnover is on the rise. Here are three ways organizations can adapt to retain top talent—and three ways project professionals can maximize opportunities.
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Breathing Easier: Measuring the Real Impact of Air Pollution
Low-cost sensors are providing the necessary data needed to change the way cities around the world measure, fight, and prevent air pollution.
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A City Built on Social Enterprise
A Ugandan village is transforming itself into a prosperous city by relying on the power of its people and natural resources.
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Tidal Energy: Powering Scotland's Whisky Distilleries
Clean energy will soon be used to craft one of Scotland’s most beloved exports.
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Make Reality: Questions With Fatima Ibrahim
Fatima Ibrahim organizes climate activists for positive economic impact and lasting political change.
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5 Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Project Management
AI will change how you run projects. Are you ready?
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Improve Project Results, Boost Your Career
Know what it takes to deliver successful projects—and to keep your career on an upward trajectory.
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Make Reality: Questions With Marcus Samuelsson
Chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson wants to make change in the food industry by celebrating culinary diversity and making better food choices available for all.
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The 25 Best Things About Being a Project Leader
As part of the celebrations for International Project Management Day on 4 November, we asked: What’s the very best part of being a project leader?
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Make Reality: Questions With Nadya Hutagalung
Nadya Hutagalung uses her voice to make positive change happen for all living beings and for planet Earth.
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The ROI of Social Impact
By engaging local stakeholders and using data to drive decisions, project leaders deliver positive change for companies—and communities.
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Artificial Intelligence and the City
AI-assisted video technology has the potential to provide city planners with real-time data to create more liveable urban environments.
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Take Your Best Shot: Scoring a Promotion
How to make yourself marketable and create your own opportunities.
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Flood Resilience: Designing on the Water’s Edge
As extreme flooding continues to be a problem for England’s coastal areas, Baca Architects looks for ways to work with rising water, not against it.
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Make Reality: Questions With Porter Braswell
Porter Braswell has discovered his life’s calling: to create products and solutions that help underrepresented communities find opportunity.
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Make Reality: Questions With Nikki Muller
Actor, producer and television presenter Nikki Muller shares some personal insights about teamwork and how she will leverage her experience to produce her own dream project.
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Make Reality: Questions With Nora Bavey
Nora Bavey is making change by driving investment in underrepresented people through access to technical education and nurturing a broad pool of talented entrepreneurs.
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Make the Most Out of Virtual Events
Join the PMI community of changemakers as we gather around the globe for our final event for 2021. Apply these tips to get the most out of your virtual experience.
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Virgin Hyperloop: Building the Impossible
The rapid-transit technology carried humans for the first time, showing the vast potential for its future applications.
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Make Reality: Questions With Gitanjali Rao
Gitanjali Rao, TIME magazine’s first “Kid of the Year,” encourages youth to tap into the power of science and technology to solve problems and make change.
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Youth: Learning to Lead
The demand for individuals who have what it takes to lead projects and teams is greater than ever.
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Make Reality - Questions with Tanya Elizabeth Ken
Changemaker Tanya Elizabeth Ken, who designed her first app in eighth grade, shows us how technology has the potential to improve the lives of youth in underserved populations.
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Put in the Work: Career Networking Tips
For career advice or a professional recommendation, identifying and connecting with the people who can help is your first, most important step.
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Do You Know the ABCs of AI?
As more projects employ artificial intelligence tools to automate tasks, project managers who are AI-savvy can boost their careers and make themselves indispensable.
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Make Reality - Questions With Christophe Dubi
Christophe Dubi, the Executive Director of the Olympic Games, discusses how he is able to manage such high expectations amid project uncertainty.
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Future-Proof Your Career
The future of project management is changing fast—staying on top of today’s trends is key to being part of it.
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Sailing the High Seas—Emission-Free
The world’s largest emission-free cargo ship will eliminate more than 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
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Making History: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is the biggest immunization project the world has ever seen.
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Building Life Skills Through Hands-On Project Management
Practicing these soft skills in everyday life can set up youth to become successful, confident adults.
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When Your Stakeholders Are Real Dogs
Pet-focused technology is helping owners monitor the health and wellbeing of their canine friends.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Reinvent the Web
The creator of the World Wide Web is looking to make a few enhancements in the name of personal data privacy.
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Building With Numbers: Urban Development and Machine Learning
Machine learning and cloud computing are supercharging urban development projects by helping teams find the best design and improve both sustainability and quality of life in neighborhoods.
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Make Reality: Questions with Dr. Wladimir Klitschko
Dr. Wladimir Klitschko, heavyweight boxing title holder and Olympic gold medalist, spoke with PMI about his a four-step method to guide others to develop their own willpower.
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Embracing the Circular Economy
Projects that adopt a circular economy framework could aid the world’s financial recovery from COVID-19 and help nations achieve their net-zero carbon targets, a new study has shown.
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A Framework for Educational Success
Project-based learning (PBL) is an important instructional approach which enables students to master academic skills, content knowledge, and build the personal abilities needed to tackle life's…
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Women at Work
A career development initiative in India is focusing on the challenges faced by women in the workforce, which have intensified during the pandemic.
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Fast-Forward: Looking Towards the Future of Work
Eight pro tips for navigating the inevitable changes ahead.
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Uncovering Innovation
With face masks the new wardrobe staple, organizations are quickly carving out their own niches built on fashion, science—or both.
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Make Reality: Questions with Malala Yousafzai
Activist Malala Yousafzai discusses the importance of adapting to change and the project she would most like to make reality.
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New Project Horizons: Smart Cities
As cities expand, they are becoming more connected and smarter with the help of open-source technology projects.
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Transportation Transformation
COVID sparked a new path for urban infrastructure, with loads of new cycling and pedestrian zones. But will user habits last beyond the pandemic?
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Megatrends 2021: What Every Project Leader Needs to Know
Five megatrends dominate The Project Economy. Here’s how a new ecosystem of changemakers is finding business opportunities with positive social impact.
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Creative Thinking: A Must-Have Skill for Project Teams
How to cultivate creativity in a technological age.
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Construction Game Changer: Robot Bricklayer
In a small village in the UK, a three-bedroom house has been constructed—for the first time ever—by a robot bricklayer.
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Team Spirit
Carlos Valdes-Dapena, known for challenging the conventional wisdom of team building, speaks with PMI to discuss the misconceptions about teamwork, how companies can improve, and the impact of…
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Pandemic Resilience
The mental health crisis is real. Here’s how project leaders can use empathy and transparency to help their teams get through.
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Smart City Reboot
After a few flameouts, teams are taking a bite-size approach to rebuild faith in the promise of hyperconnected urban hubs.
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Make Reality: Questions With Katie Sowers
Sowers discusses how a project management mindset helped her to thrive and achieve success in the high-profile professional football industry.
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Aviation's Response to the Pandemic
No longer grounded, airline industry responds to COVID-19 challenges.
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Pandemic Pace
Pandemic-driven flux is forcing companies to adapt their strategies like never before.
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Make Reality: Questions with Alexis Ohanian
Internet entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian is immersed in new projects after recently stepping down from Reddit.
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Make Reality: Questions with Trevor Noah
Noah describes how he has adapted to the challenge of producing his show from home and the project he would most like to make reality.
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PMO of the Year: The Final Round
Several PMO's were nominated, find out who they were, and which one took home the distinguished PMO of the Year title.
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Project of the Year Winner Announced
Get a recap of the finalists and find out who is this year's Project of the Year.
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Make Reality: Questions With José Andrés
Before his appearance in PMI’s Virtual Experience Series (VES), Andrés shared some thoughts on success and failure and the project he would most like to make reality.
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Innovation Meets Diversity
By leaning into diversity, project teams are developing products that answer long-unmet user needs.
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Make Reality: Questions With Tamron Hall
PMI sat down with the host of VES, Tamron Hall, a U.S. broadcast journalist and Emmy Award-winning talk show host who shared her thoughts about her own projects and inspirations.
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Inspiration From John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement
Leaders like John Lewis inspire us to activism but history teaches us that we must have a plan and set goals to ensure success.
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4 Ways to Keep Your Professional Development on Track
Lindsay Scott talks about work and careers as the world emerges into a new normal. Available only on PMI.org.
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