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Effective Management Skills

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  Effective management involves a wide range of skills, including communicating clearly and effectively, setting goals and objectives, delegating tasks and responsibilities, and making sound decisions. Here are a few key management skills that can help you succeed in your role: Communication: Good managers are able to clearly articulate their expectations and goals to their team. They also listen actively to their team members and encourage open and honest communication. Goal-setting: Setting clear goals and objectives helps to focus the eyour team's efforts ensure that everyone is working towards a common purpose. Delegation: Good managers know how to delegate tasks and responsibilities to the right team members and trust them to complete the work. Decision-making: Strong decision-making skills are crucial for managers, as they often face complex problems that require careful analysis and judgment. Time management: Effective time management is essential for managers, as they

Introduction to Intermediate Lean Strategies

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  Advancing your lean strategy through the various stages of implementation will no doubt place you in the path of several challenges that will necessitate the proper response. In understanding how to best address your situation you will no doubt need to implement one (or, depending on the situation, several) strategies. Consider three such strategies as an example of the variety of solutions to your current or future problems: six sigma training, A3 problem solving and value stream mapping. Six sigma training consists  mainly of efforts that focus on achieving stability in your manufacturing process and that will relay predictable results. You’ll need to focus on implementing processes that can be statistically measured so that you’ll be able to analyze your results closely and, in turn, better react to problems that may arise. SIX SIGMA TRAINING focuses on those details in order to properly achieve sustained quality improvement. You’ll need a concise focus on measuring those results

What Happened to Architects with PMP Certification ?

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  Are you an architect wondering if you can attend a PMP training course? With PMP's specialized training courses available for professionals from all industries, you can rest assured that there is a course for you. Whether you're an experienced architect or a beginner, there's a PMP course that can help you become a certified project manager. At Learners Ink, we know that there is a lot of confusion surrounding the eligibility of Architects to attend PMP Training . Are they eligible? What are the requirements? Can architects attend PMP Training courses? The answer is yes, Architects can attend PMP Training courses. However, just like any other professional, Architects must meet the PMP education, experience, and training requirements in order to be eligible for the PMP certification exams. Generally, most Architects entering the PMP Training course will need to have a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in any field, along with a minimum of 4,500 hours of leading and directing pro

Work Breakdown Structure

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 Why It Is One of The Most Important Tools in Project Management Project management is a complex and multifaceted process, and having a work breakdown structure (WBS) in place can help ensure a project's success. By breaking down a project into smaller, manageable tasks, the project manager can gain insight into the project's scope, timeline, and cost. A WBS can help identify the resources, tasks, and dependencies required to bring a project to completion. In this blog, we'll explore the fundamentals of a WBS and how it can help streamline the project management process. A work breakdown structure (WBS) is an essential component of project management that helps break down the scope of a project into manageable chunks. WBS is usually presented in the form of a hierarchy, with the highest level representing the project as a whole and each subsequent level representing smaller and smaller components. The WBS serves many critical functions in project management. It helps proje

Software Development Leadership

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  What Is A Software Team Leader Responsible For? Let's start by having a look at the roles and responsibilities of a software development team leader. It's different from a software developer. The leader is responsible for making sure the team performs their tasks, meets deadlines (as best as they can), make decisions, delegate within the team, and communicate with other managers. They may not do a lot of actual development work. This will depend on the team and the organization, but a software development leader doesn't usually do a lot of the coding themselves. They are usually pretty busy with other tasks such as tracking work and communicating with the other managers (other managers, project managers, etc). So, how do you actually take the next step and become a software group leader? Be The Best Developer You Can Be The first people chosen as candidates for a software development team manager role are usually the developers. Developers need to show that they are actua

Risk Management Planning

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Risk Management Many times it so happens that a project is delayed or needs extra money to be pumped in by the organization to complete the work. However, after completing the project when the organization performs the post-mortem, they see that many of the reasons causing such problems can be avoided by proper advanced planning; i.e. by adopting the risk management principles. The risk management plan is a plan that identifies future risks and prepares a contingency plan to deal with them. Many professionals think this plan is separate and isolated; however, this is a wrong assumption. The risk management plan is an integral part of the project management plan and it is developed along with it. This plan defines the guidelines that how you will identify the project risks and techniques to manage them. This plan aims to minimize the threats' impact and increase the probability of opportunities. Three steps are required to develop the project risk management plan. These steps are a

Creativity and Time Management

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  The major and important factors works in business to get achieve continuous improvements are creativity, innovation, preparation, time management as well as some tools that must be to follow while implementing any business. In this article key terms of creativity and innovation are discussed, which are also terms that used in the many management techniques like six sigma, 5 S Lean management, kaizen, kanban and more. What is Creativity? Creativity is the ability to produce new and original ideas and things. What is Innovation? Innovation makes the idea practical and usable. The innovative activity in any business enterprise depends upon the creative contributions of its members. It also depends upon how the organization taps the creativity of its talented members. How are the creative thoughts generated? There are following points through the new thoughts generated. New combinations of patterns of existing knowledge. Association of ideas, often from widely different spheres of learni

Importance of Project Management Software in Business

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  When you hire an agency for project management software, an important concern is that the new software needs to work in sync with the present system. It is paramount that the newly introduced tools mix well with the present software, as there is no need to spend on new training. Essentially the project management software you apply in your business should assist the smooth running while ensuring success. A number of factors can affect the efficient application and execution of any cloud project management software. Following are a few of such factors: Applicable Solution In order to achieve the intended goals of any organization, it is significant that the software tools merge well with the present system. The solution software provided, need to satisfy the purpose of its implementation, big or small. A comprehensive and segmental approach of project management software can lead to overall success. This helps the employees at various levels to understand and learn the new system with

Mistakes People Make in Managing Organizational Performance

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  Business planning is a process that is well established in most organizations, which means they generally have a set of goals or objectives. But most people do the same mistakes in managing organizational performance. And it affects to the cost and efficiency of the organization.   Following are the 10 common mistakes that most people do while managing any organization. 1 : Rely just on financial statements Profit and loss, revenue and expenses are measures of important things to a business. But they are information that is too little and too late. Too little in the sense that other results matter too, such as customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and customer advocacy. Too late in the sense that by the time you see bad results, the damage is already done. Wouldn't it be better to know that profit was likely to fall before it actually did fall, and in time to prevent it from falling? 2 : Look only at this month, last month, year to date Most financial performance reports summa

Why Soft Skills Training Are Essential

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So what are soft skills? Wikipedia states: “Soft skills is a term often associated with a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, interpersonal skills, managing people, leadership, etc. that characterize relationships with other people. Soft skills contrast to hard skills, which are generally easily quantifiable and measurable (e.g. software knowledge, basic plumbing skills).For this reason, soft skills are increasingly sought out by employers in addition to standard qualifications.” Our starting point is going to look at some statistics. In a recent market research survey given to local employers Workopolis revealed that 68% had a problem finding the right candidate and 29% said candidates lack of soft skills kept them from being hired. In another study by Millennial Branding and American Express showed that 61% of managers surveyed felt that soft skills were more importa

Key Concept of Poka Yoke Management

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What Is Poka - Yoke? Poka - Yoke is a strategy for performance excellence. The Simple meaning of Poka-yoke or Mistake Proofing is to eliminate Mistakes. It is a methodology that is used to strive toward zero defects by either preventing or automatically detecting defects.? Poka Yoke is a Japanese term literally defined as 'mistake proofing. It is often used in the context of designing devices, that prevent defects from being made or, if they are made, from moving to the next process. Poka-yoke can be used wherever something can go wrong or an error can be made. It is a technique, a tool that can be applied to any type of process be it in manufacturing or the service industry. History of Poka - Yoke The phrase Poka-Yoke originates from the Japanese words yokeru = to avoid poka = inadvertent errors Poka-yoke was coined in Japan during the 1960s by Shigeo Shingo who was one of the industrial engineers at Toyota. (poka-yoke techniques to correct possible defects + source inspection to

Leadership Commitment and Workforce Communication in Kaizen Management

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Kaizen is a management philosophy with roots in both US and Japanese management practices. It comes from the Japanese words "Kai" meaning school and "Zen" meaning wisdom. Everyone is encouraged to come up with small improvement suggestions on a regular basis. Kaizen is a system of improvement that in Japan includes both home life as well as business improvements. Kaizen Management has important tool as Kaizen Events, which is also referred to as Kaizen Blitzes - are three to five days focused events during which a cross-functional team studies a process to identify waste and implements improvements to eliminate the root cause of the waste, generating rapid and often far more dramatic results than those typically obtained from traditional improvement methods.  While originally embraced by manufacturing, Kaizen Events are now being used by industries of all types, and in organizations of all sizes to implement rapid change. A properly planned and executed event typica