The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. When I was first hired for my current job, I was given the task of managing a complex, large-scale rebuild project. Our entire team met with the client every day via video calls. Much of my day was spent communicating with our remote […]
How to Create Project Status Reports + Examples and Template
The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. A project status report can be used to communicate the current status of your project. Producers and Project Managers use status reports to keep clients, team members and other stakeholders informed. A famous person once said: James C. Humes is an author and […]
How to Build an Agency Sales System (with Lee Goff, Marketing Agency Coach).
Ben Aston is joined by Lee Goff, Digital Agency Coach, Automation Consultant, and Founder of MarketingAgencyCoach.com. As they share their tips and tricks for creating effective sales systems that convert leads into new business, you can listen to them. Interview Highlights Lee was offered a job at a technical company in 2000. It was an […]
How to Build and Scale an Effective Project Management Team – Digital Project Manager
The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. Chances are that you have realized that you need to scale your digital project management in your agency. You may be receiving a lot of new projects and need to manage them. Or you may have been struggling to manage your existing workload […]
How to Build a Workflow Management System (+Examples). – The Digital Project manager
The world has changed. Why is this happening? Smartsheet transforms your work. Is it important to have a workflow management system? Ask yourself these questions: How much time do you spend in meetings? What about in your email? Or just switching tabs in your browser? You have too many tabs open at the moment, be […]
Assess your workplace for its efficiency and effectiveness.
Do you see an incubator of efficiency in your workplace? It is designed to encourage collaboration, productivity and innovation. Or do you see an old relic of an office that is cluttered with obstacles to effectiveness and conspiring to crush the spirit of employees and hinder your organization’s goals? How would you know the difference? […]
15 Amazing Statistics about Agile Project Management
It doesn’t matter if the shift is towards business agility in its entirety or just toward agile project budgets. The Agile mindset is permeating all businesses, large and small, both locally and internationally. Agile is a traditional software development philosophy that emphasizes: It is a philosophy that has been adopted by a subset of project […]
How to Answer Project Management Interview Questions
A project manager must be able to communicate, organize, and solve problems. This is how to display all that during an interview. You know exactly what bad interview answers you should avoid as a project manager job candidate. (“My greatest weakness is that I am a perfectionist!” It can be difficult to prepare for the […]
Five Workplace Communication Tips from the Apollo Missions
The Apollo manned missions to safely land humans on the moon and return them to safety to earth in 1968 and 1972 remain some of the most remarkable achievements in human history. You are a small business leader and project manger, so you can appreciate the teamwork and innovation required to complete a project with […]
Answer these 8 questions to receive a free report on team productivity
Cosmo Spacely needs to determine the productivity of one of his sprocket production groups. This is an easy task. You simply need to determine how many shippable prockets your team produces in a given period. If you really want to get fancy you can even calculate numbers such as how many sprockets an employee produces […]