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✅ Today’s checklist:
💖 Dating: Is dating as a powerful woman a liability?
🏡 Home: Using the 3-5-7 rule to style your home.
💍 Wedding: Five key steps for successful planning.
🍎 Health: This protein could be the next Ozempic.
💼 Career: What good bosses have in common.
Whether you’re the “manager” of a project, or are lucky enough to be part of a team with a dedicated project management role, it’s crucial to understand the fundamentals of effective project management (PM) to enhance your leadership skills.
What are the core principles of PM?
What are popular methods of PM?
Agile: Agile project management methodology provides flexible, iterative design and build process.
Kanban: Tasks are represented visually on a board, allowing team members to see the state of every piece of work at any time.
Lean: Lean is a problem-solving tool for eliminating wastes and removing wasteful activities that don’t add value to the process.
Waterfall: Waterfall provides a simple framework for planning projects. Tasks are in sequential order. The team completes one task or step then performs the next step.
Six Sigma: Six Sigma is a method that provides organizations tools to improve the capability of their business processes.
What are popular tools used in PM?
How could I implement this at work tomorrow?
1) Better time management: Implement methodologies like time blocking or using a Kanban board to help manage your own workload and deadlines, ensuring important tasks are not overlooked.
2) Resource allocation: Plan workload distribution based on team members’ capacities and skills, much like a project manager would balance project resources.
3) Optimization: After wrapping up major tasks or projects, dive into a quick retrospective to hash out what soared and what sank — this way, you’re always polishing your performance for the next round.
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Simone Biles: Rising is a must-watch docu-series that dives deeper into the life of the legendary Simone Biles, showcasing her journey to becoming the greatest gymnast of all time.
Fresh off the Paris Olympics hype, now’s the perfect time to get an inside look at Simone’s intense training, personal battles, and her relentless pursuit of excellence.
Whether you’re still riding the high from Team USA’s performance or just looking for some weekend inspiration, this series will keep you glued to the screen.
For fans of: Athlete A, The Last Dance, Cheer.
Watch it with: Your bestie, your sister, and/or your mom.
Pair it with: A bowl of popcorn and a smoothie.
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Their FY24 wellness goals include metrics to play at least 200 rounds of fetch at the local dog park and to get a solid 12 hours of shut-eye every day on their favorite sports-themed dog bed.
They look up to strong women, and Coco Gauff is their inspiration.
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