Are Leaders Born or Trained?

Over the years, there has been an ongoing debate on leadership and the big question is still being asked. Several scholars and leaders of thought have given their verdicts on this, the question is "are leaders born or trained". read more ...

IBQMI® Continues Supporting Industries by Providing Professional Certifications

IBQMI® recently highlighted the continued importance of its distinguished catalog of pioneering training programs, serving the educational needs of a growing remote workforce. Having already established a series of virtual educational programs, IBQMI® saw no decline in enrollees during the pandemic, and given the likely permanent nature of this workforce, fully expects expanded enrollment to continue indefinitely. read more ...

IBQMI® Announces Joined Effort With Luigi Masecchia

(IBQMI®) announced it would work in cooperation with Italian mosaic artist, Luigi Masecchia, as part of a new initiative pairing IBQMI® with a wide variety of outstanding global artists committed to addressing urgent planetary issues. read more ...

Common Leadership Styles in Business

Every business has its style of leadership adopted right from the inception of the organization. As an employee of any organization, if you carefully look through the structure of the activities in such an establishment, you’ll see the type of leadership style the company is using. In reality, many employees don’t know the characteristics of each of these leadership styles. In this piece, we’ll look at some of these leadership styles and their features. Let’s check them out! read more ...

Tried and Proven Ways to Be Encouraging

Encouragement is an essential tool everyone needs to stay focused and move ahead in life and in whatever situation we find ourselves. But obviously, everybody needs some sort of encouragement in one way or the other. No matter the position you find yourself, if you really want to make impact in peoples’ life, make yourself an encouraging person. Being an encouraging person is one way to directly touch the life of many individual positively. read more ...

4 Must-Not-Overlook Characteristics of a Bad Leader

Never fall into the trap of thinking you can never become a bad leader because you’ve always been the good guy. Well, the truth is, many folks who exhibit bad leadership traits are once like you, they also felt the same way before assuming the loftier position of heading organizations. They fail to practice self-awareness when they started exhibiting some characteristics of a bad leader. Hence, this post seeks to enlighten you on four characteristics of a bad leader you might exhibit as time passes. read more ...

How to Manage Workflow with Kanban

A Kanban board is one of the features Kanban. Its deployment steps, has work in progress limit(WIP). If for example a deployment step has a WIP of 6 and 6 spics, it would prevent the addition of other work items until of course the step is complete by one or more epics. read more ...

Costly Mistakes to Avoid as a Project Manager during Covid-19 Pandemic

The business world is passing through an unprecedented time since the outbreak of the COVID-19. Businesses are shut down except those providing essential services for the people. What does this mean to every project manager? It means the productivities of the companies under their cares more than ever, need to be prioritized by using any methods deem fit to accomplish the milestones and goals set. In this currently situation, each project manager will have to devise means of handling these tasks differently but must avoid some costly mistakes. Here are some of these mistakes every project manager must avoid at all cost. read more ...

Top Tips for an Effective Project Management

A project is any activity with a date of commencement and completion. Each project is made up of a series of tasks which ultimately have a single objective. Projects can be managed manually or using project management software. read more ...

How to Effectively Present Progress as a Project Manager

One of the challenging things for any project manager is how well to handle progress presentation to the management. This fear is very understandable as it’s very difficult to break down those complex strategies to simple and understandable concept to such an audience. But the good news is this challenge isn’t insurmountable, follow these simple guidelines and the dread progress presentation will come out fruitful. read more ...