Georgette C. Beatty

It’s well known that you can’t take care of others unless you take care of yourself, and that statement rings even more true today. You can become calmer, more fulfilled, and more grounded with the help of a variety of self-care practices.These practices include mindfulness, self-compassion, resilience, fitness, clean eating, stress management, and reduced online activity.

Enterprise agility is agile for big products — typically one that requires many different teams throughout the organization that coordinate with many different departments and stakeholders. The best way to implement enterprise agility in your organization is to take the following three steps: Review the top enterprise agile frameworks.

Agile planning happens at a number of points. A great way to look at planning activities is with the Roadmap to Value. The figure shows the roadmap as a whole. Stages of agile planning and execution with the Roadmap to Value. The Roadmap to Value has seven stages: In stage 1, the product owner identifies the product vision.

Product development teams and project managers need to evaluate whether teams are following agile principles and whether their actions and behaviors are consistent with agile values. The Agile Manifesto was generated from experience, not from theory.As you review the values described in the following discussion, consider what they would mean if you put them into practice.

Project management is the process of guiding a project from its beginning through its performance to its closure. Project management includes five sets of processes: Initiating processes: Clarifying the business need, defining high-level expectations and resource budgets, and beginning to identify audiences that may play a role in your project Planning processes: Detailing the project scope, time frames, resources, and risks, as well as intended approaches to project communications, quality, and management of external purchases of goods and services Executing processes: Establishing and managing the project team, communicating with and managing project audiences, and implementing the project plans Monitoring and controlling processes: Tracking performance and taking actions necessary to help ensure project plans are successfully implemented and the desired results are achieved Closing processes: Ending all project activity As illustrated, these five process groups help support the project through the four phases of its life cycle.

No matter what your job is, you handle a myriad of assignments every day. For example, you may prepare a memo, hold a meeting, design a sales campaign, or move to new offices. Or you may make the information systems more user-friendly, develop a research compound in the laboratory, or improve the organization’s public image.

With the changing nature of work today, managers have to adapt to new circumstances for managing employees. How can managers keep up with an employee’s performance when that employee may not even have physical contact with the manager for weeks or months at a time? The following discussion can help. Increase your interaction Today’s managers have to work harder to manage distant employees.

When you work from home, it’s your responsibility to set up your space, your schedule, and your boundaries to create a healthy work–life balance. © Black Salmon / Shutterstock.comFor many people, the idea of working from home sounds heavenly. No commute, no cubicle, no annoying coworkers, no more expensive dry cleaning, no more office politics — the list goes on.

Studies show that texting has replaced voice calls and even emails as the primary form of communication. In fact, in a recent poll by Time, 32 percent of respondents said they’d rather communicate by text than phone, even with people they know very well. This shift to text isn’t just for personal communication.