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Overcoming Language Barriers in EU projects
I was once a partner in a project that was dedicated to people who provided care to older people. As part of the project, we examined caregiving in each of our countries, and unveiled trends such as which countries were more likely to employ professional carers and...
Teachers are struggling with work life balance – what can we do?
Who is responsible for teachers’ and educators’ work life balance? As a child, I wanted to be a history teacher when I grew up. I pictured myself captivating groups of precocious (and well behaved) young people with my inspirational lessons that breathed life into...
How to prepare a collaboration model for an international project?
Recently, I was asked to work with a consortium of international humanitarian aid organisations to formulate a collaboration model. Fundamentally, my task was to facilitate them in answering such questions as:How are they going to manage their project?How will they...
How to be more creative
In my life, my circumstances rarely allow me to think and work as creatively as I would like. There is always something limiting my imagination and impeding true inspiration. It is not something I was particularly aware of until I consciously compared my normal...
A different course
For the next 15 minutes, I would like to take you on a trip. Grab yourself a cup of coffee or tea, take a seat, and just relax because I’m going to take you to the West of Ireland. Imagine that the first thing you see when you wake up are green hills and mountains...
Balance your Stress
Initially, I wanted to dedicate this newsletter to the complex and ever-changing topic of managing a project team: How to empower people, how to meet project demands, and how to maintain motivation and engagement in your team. As I was mulling this topic over, I...
How the Design Thinking method can help to engage project stakeholders
Have you ever felt like that although your project has the potential to impact many people you can’t get through the brick wall which stands between you and your team and the rest of the world? Stakeholders can make or break a project and regardless of the type of...
Balance is a choice
When it comes to maintaining balance in life, two words spring to my mind: happiness and choices. For me, happiness is a synonym of balance and it comes as a consequence of the choices we make. Some of you may have seen the TED Talk “What makes a good life?” by Robert...
Risk management in projects
Have you ever participated in a project that was run 100 percent according to a plan, with no delays, no budget overspending, no issues with resources, no communication problems, and no conflicts? I didn’t think so. There are a lot of risk factors in projects and even...
The Power of Socks: The dress codes of project management
A couple of months ago, I led a project management course in the Connemara mountains in Ireland. The venue is very informal. We go outdoors in the morning to hike, cycle or kayak. Then, in the afternoon and evening, we gather for project management workshops in the...
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