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How to Discuss a Career Growth Path with Your Boss: Tips for Asking for a Promotion

Knowing when the time is right to discuss a career growth path with your boss can be difficult. You may feel like you are stuck in your position or that you are not progressing as quickly as you would like. It is important to remember that it is ok to have these conversations with your boss is okay. They may be expecting them! In this blog post, we will give you tips on how to approach the conversation and what to do if your boss is a bit reluctant about it. Let’s begin!

A Complete Guide to Dependencies in Project Management

Dependencies in project management address issues many consider part of the A-B-Cs of successful project management. Nothing happens in a vacuum. If you were building a house, you’d start with a foundation. This is how dependencies operate, regardless of your industry. This article will help you categorize each dependency and get things off the ground. Let’s dive right in.

Ready, set, goals: What's New in Asana, July 2022

Great things happen when teams see the value of their work. But often, strategic initiatives are disconnected from day-to-day projects, leaving employees uncertain about their top priorities. According to the 2022 Anatomy of Work Index, nearly 1 in 3 employees can’t see a clear link between their day-to-day efforts and their company’s goals. To fulfill an organization’s mission and be effective, teams must have clarity about their goals and what’s needed to achieve them.

Best Project Management Software For Healthcare

Choosing best project management software for healthcare can be a challenging task, because managing healthcare projects means you have to ensure that all parts of the project are done correctly and on time without delay. This can be pretty hard depending on how big the project is as well as how complex it is. So what many companies do is they hand out a project manager to oversee everything that needs to be done.

What's New in Asana - Asana Goals edition | July 2022

Welcome to the July edition of What’s New in Asana! This month, we have a special edition look at Goals. Asana Goals enable you to link your organization’s mission with day-to-day work in one shared space. With the addition of My goals, you can see how your work contributes to the organization's objectives and easily navigate between your organization’s mission, company goals, team goals, and the goals you own.

The project management life cycle: 4 essential stages

Every project has a life cycle: At minimum, a project has a start and an end. Those points and everything in between form the life cycle of a project. The real question is whether a business will plan that life cycle strategically through project management — or let the life cycle happen to them instead. If you ask us, we’ll tell you the first option is the way to go. Letting the project run the team rarely ends well, while proactive project planning frequently leads to success.

The project management life cycle: 4 essential stages

Every project has a life cycle: At minimum, a project has a start and an end. Those points and everything in between form the life cycle of a project. The real question is whether a business will plan that life cycle strategically through project management — or let the life cycle happen to them instead. If you ask us, we’ll tell you the first option is the way to go. Letting the project run the team rarely ends well, while proactive project planning frequently leads to success.

How to reduce video meeting stress with science

If you work from home, you’ve faced this dilemma: You want to show face during a video meeting to signal engagement with your job, but video meeting stress is the unavoidable consequence when you go on camera. It’s been more than two years since millions started working from home, and by this point, we’re all tired of seeing our own faces.

Using the Move to Folder Feature

In OneDesk, your items exist in a structured manner. You can have: Portfolios (and sub-portfolios), Projects, and Folders. That order is basically the hierarchy from top to bottom. In other words, folders exist in projects and projects inside of portfolios (though projects can be independent also). Check out our related articles for more details on work structure. In this article I want to talk about folders and a helpful feature called “move to folder.”