At the heart of every thriving agency, there’s a well-oiled machine known as agency operations. From resource allocation and workflows to client management and process optimization, agency operations are what, well, keeps your agency in business.…
Job stress (including burnout) costs American employers over $300 billion annually. Low employee engagement—a common burnout symptom—costs the global economy $7.8 trillion annually. Burnout spans across industries, but some are more at risk than others. Data…
Agency resource planning and management processes help you align the right people with available project work. Doing it well leads to happy, productive agency teams committed to delivering high-quality client outcomes. Project success and satisfied clients…
The advertising industry doesn’t have the best reputation when it comes to work-life balance. It’s notorious for its fast-paced, high-pressure environment, where tight deadlines and demanding clients are the norm. “It’s agency life” is the rationale…
It may come as a surprise that Earth Day goes all the way back to 1970. Long before plastic waste protests, carbon footprint calculators, and Greta Thunberg existed. That means 2020 marked half a century’s worth of…
They say that a watched pot never boils. And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any…
The best project managers go the extra mile for their teams. Not only do they wrestle with undefined gray areas to find win-win scenarios for all stakeholders and remove roadblocks that prevent people from getting work…
Last week, Holly Davis, Principal Delivery Manager at Torchbox, talked about complacency, ownership, and project scope. This week, Dr. Al Zeitoun, PgMP, PMI Fellow, and Senior Strategy Director at Siemens, shares the story of when he…
Your project is coming to a close and it’s time to wrap things up. Ironically, and because so much effort goes into planning a project, we often forget that it’s equally important to close-out projects properly…
Project closure often gets overshadowed by the execution phase, and to be fair, there can be some confusion and overlap between the two. But this is exactly why the project closure phase exists: to make sure…
Resource capacity planning templates can make life as a resource or project manager so much easier. A nifty template will sharpen your resource planning process—saving you time and stress. Plus, it’ll help you identify overallocated resources…
Last week, Operations Director at DDB Sydney, Steph Dix, shared her (all-too-familiar) story about work-life balance and how exactly her mantra, “happy people make for great work,” came to be. This week, Holly Davis, Principal Delivery Manager…
You’ve created a meticulous project plan. You’ve got a project dream team behind you. And your stakeholders are ready and willing to back you all the way. What could possibly go wrong? Answer: the execution. Project…
Last week, Director, Data Governance at American Express, and experienced PMP, Ordonna Sargeant, talked about what happens when you don’t have clearly defined team roles and why collaboration is the key to success in project management.…
When you’re figuring out how to build a project team, it comes down to finding the right people with the right skills for the task at hand. Simple as that. Project success relies on a good…
