Jim Owens PMP's Articles - ABC Article Directory | Submit Articles | Article Search Engine

Jim Owens PMP's Articles

Display Category\|Title\|Newest\|Oldest
Ten power Points to Powerful PowerPoints Ten power-packed tips to wowing your audience with a dynamite PowerPoint presentation. Focus Beyond Success Everybody wants to be successful. Of course it could be argued that some people obviously want to fail in life – but that means that they want to be successful in failing. And so when they eventually DO fail, they succeeded in achieving their life’s main goal. And that’s a level of success that few Accelerated Learning, an Introduction Your brain has been designed for success and endowed with an enormous capacity for learning. You are the master of your own intellectual destiny; and you can design your own intelligence. Using your brain properly, especially in innovative and fun ways, accelerates your learning, increases your inte Hawthorne Effect, an examination The often quoted “Hawthorne Effect’ (that people become more productive when they know they are being observed) was said to come from research performed by Professor Elton Mayo at Western Electric’s Hawthorne plant. But is this fact, or merely a “legend” as some suggest Successful Team Motivation Part 1 How do you motivate people to work harder or better? That's a question that is often asked. At one time it was thought that just paying someone a higher salary, or conversely threatening them with dismissal, would motivate them. While these approaches had some success, they are very self-limiting. H Leadership for Project Managers In the first half of the 20th century there was a belief that Scientific Management was the new way forward. But as moral fell, psychologists began to investigate ways to motivate workers, eventually identifying the need for managers to be “leaders”. But what does this really mean?