Is There Anything You Can Do About It?

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It helps to invite people to participate and explain the reasons behind why their participation is valuable. People like to do things because there's a reason behind it, not just because they've been asked. The other thing that works is allowing them to set their own deadlines. If you go to somebody and say, I need this by Tuesday, their instant reaction might be, oh, I can't do that. You can't tell me what to do. Whereas if you can say we need this piece of work done and your boss has suggested that you're the right person to do it, how much time do you think this might take?

Elizabeth Harrin lays out the five critical steps to making the management of multiple projects more manageable.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The easiest way to make managing multiple projects manageable

2) How to ensure follow through when you’re not the manager

3)How to strike the right balance between time, cost, and quality

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— ABOUT ELIZABETH —

Elizabeth Harrin teaches people how to juggle multiple projects so they can meet stakeholders’ expectations without working extra hours. She is a project management practitioner, trainer, mentor and founder of RebelsGuideToPM.com.

An author of seven project management books, Elizabeth prides herself on her straight-talking, real-world advice for project managers. She uses her twenty years’ experience doing the job to help people deliver better quality results whilst ditching the burnout through her community membership programme, Project Management Rebels.

• Book: Managing Multiple Projects: How Project Managers Can Balance Priorities, Manage Expectations and Increase Productivity

• LinkedIn: Elizabeth Harrin

• Website: RebelsGuidetoPM.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Infinity

• Tool: Maltron keyboard

• Study: “The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of ‘Placebic’ Information in Interpersonal Interaction“ by Ellen Langer, Arthur Blank, and Benzion Chanowitz

• Book: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

• Book: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results by Anthony Mersino

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