Record Your Achievements

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Track your career history and your work achievements. Make detailed records of this. It will help you progress in your career, get promotions, and get certified in your professional field. Do this regularly and consistently.

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Make Clear Definitions

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Make your project definitions and acronym meanings very clear. Put them in an easy to find and easily accessible location for the project team.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Project Systems Properly

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Deliver successful projects by using your company’s project systems properly. Ensure your team does too. It is important that your team does correct email filing, document and file storage, use of chat systems, and all the other systems you have available. Set the right example, train them, and enforce it. This will save your project time and money.

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Getting Ideas from Team Members

If you want to get a collection of good ideas from your team, avoid using brainstorming. Brainstorming means everyone puts forward ideas in a group meeting, but people will often …

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Effective Computer Use

Make sure your team is skilled and trained in using the basic functions of their computers as efficiently as possible. Possibly run some short workshops on the use of keyboard …

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Don’t Email Messages to All

Although this is an organisation issue, not just a project issue, it is important to make sure your team does not send messages to all for something that is specific …

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Lessons Learned

Make sure to write the lessons learned for each project. This should include what has been done right, wrong, and what you would do differently if you could redo the …

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