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Top 3 Reasons Why Systems Fail

My Top 3 Reasons Why Systems Fail

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Is Your Project Running Late? Check your stakeholders.

The surprising truth behind why projects run late.

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 6

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 5

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 4

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 3

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 2

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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What I Learned About Project Management By Planning My Wedding: Part 1

Join me as I recount the project management lessons I’ve learned and re-learned while planning my upcoming wedding!

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How to WORDLE like a Project Manager

Learn the secrets of my 98% success rate at WORDLE.

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Organize Your Work Day… With a Post-It!

Learn how a Post-It can be your best productivity-boosting to-do list!

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My 1-Year Anniversary Performance Appraisal

It’s been one year since I went full-time with Projects By Molly, LLC. Read on for my first annual performance appraisal, and reflections!

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PRO TIP: Comments

Third in the PRO TIP series: How to update your comments in a way that will save time for future readers and help keep your spreadsheets more orderly.

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PRO TIP: Status Updates

Second in the PRO TIP series: How to update your status in a consistent and EASY way.

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PRO TIP: Percent Complete Updates

First in the PRO TIP series: how to update the percent complete on your unfinished tasks without wanting to pull your hair out all the time!

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An interview with my mentor: Steve Salisbury

I sat down for a conversation with my mentor, Steve Salisbury, about why the Great Resignation is actually the Great Leadership Crisis. Get ready for some massive knowledge drops in your future, and listen to our full interview!

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Lessons Learned from the Small Business Expo-Chicago

I attended the Small Business Expo conference in Chicago last week and wanted to share some of the key takeaways and lessons I learned.

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So you wanna be a project manager? Let me help you!

Are you interested in moving into project management as a career, but are not quite sure how to do it? Let me help you! My new career transition coaching package is designed to help you understand everything you’ll need to do in order to make a successful transition into a career as a project manager!

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Bringing order to chaos is a valid career path & other things I’ve learned as a project manager…

Bringing order to chaos can totally be your jam, and your main hustle. I had no idea that I could get paid for it when I first got out of college - read on to hear my message for current college students who might benefit from considering a career in project management.

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Are you a human? You’re a project manager!

If you are a human, you are a project manager (no matter what your job title officially states). Read on to find out how we could all benefit from seeing ourselves as project managers and embracing it.

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Are you an entrepreneur? You’re a project manager!

If you’re an entrepreneur, you are a project manager. You may not know it yet, but read on to find out how you are already doing project management every day.

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Are you a parent? You’re a project manager!

If you’re a parent, you are a project manager. You may not know it yet, but read on to find out how you are already using project management skills.

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Are you an artist? You’re a project manager!

If you’re an artist, you are a project manager. You may not know it yet, but read on to find out how you are already using project management skills and tools to bring your art alive.

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Are you a boss? Congratulations, you’re a project manager!

If you’re a boss, you are a project manager. You may not know it yet, but read on to find out how project management skills and tools are contributing to your team management.

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Who’s got the ball?

Figuring out who is doing what is one of the biggest struggles small businesses face when they begin to grow. Check out this video for an overview of my Roles & Responsibilities Matrix, which is designed to help bring clarity to your team and help you define and delegate who’s got the ball!

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Anxious about your project? Try an issues list!

Can you use project management to decrease stress during a project? You bet! One of the best tools I’ve ever found to help me calm my nerves when projects heat up is the issues list. In this video, I will show you how to use my issues list template to keep problems out of your head and into an organized list!

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Check out my Project Plan How-To!

Get ready to learn about my first free resource: the project plan! This video is a step-by-step guide on how to use it, and this blog post includes an exclusive behind-the-scenes summary of how it came to be in the first place.

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Should We Or Shouldn’t We…?

How do you answer the question, “How long is that going to take you?” Watch this video (my first!) for two formulas you can use the next time your boss asks you to estimate how long something will take!

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How long is that gonna take?

How do you answer the question, “How long is that going to take you?” Watch this video (my first!) for two formulas you can use the next time your boss asks you to estimate how long something will take!

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Are Project Managers Secretly Sorcerers?

If project management is all about bringing order to chaos, are project managers secretly sorcerers? Read about my new-found suspicion and new favorite Netflix series- The Witcher.

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Rolling Wave Planning Strikes Again

Rolling wave planning is a project management skill that has helped me plan and re-plan my upcoming travel... Here’s how it can help you, too!

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Are You Resolved?

Resolutions are a touchy subject… Do you have them? Are they worthwhile? What might we all become if we were resolved to something bigger than ourselves this year?

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‘Tis The Season to Take A Break…

I took an honest-to-goodness break from work last week, and it was awesome. Do you believe in the benefits of R&R, and if so, what are they?

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Can you project manage your way to a Happier Holiday?

I’ve been using project management to plan my holidays for years without realizing it! Have you, too? Take a read through my article on using the project management technique of rolling wave planning to help plan a happy holiday season!

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: A Summary

The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: A Summary

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Strategy # 5: Dedicate Yourself to Their Success

Strategy #5 in the Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Dedicate Yourself to Their Success

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Strategy # 4: Keep Your Commitments

Strategy #4 in the Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Keep Your Commitments

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Strategy # 3: Send Status Reports

Strategy #3 in the Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Send Status Reports

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Strategy # 2: Close Loops

Strategy #2 in the Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Close Loops

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Strategy # 1: Respond

Strategy #1 in the Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: Respond

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The Life-Changing Magic of Managing Up: An Introduction

Find out how I became inspired by the life-changing magic of managing up by discovering 5 key strategies to improve relationships with leaders.

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