This week on Instagram, I’ve been talking about all the different dimensions of how your experience as a higher education professional managing, supervising, and supporting high-performing teams is very transferable to project management. Let’s recap and then dive right in! First things first… you know by now that I’m going to open…
On trusting the process
Here is a deep, dark, dirty secret: higher ed/student affairs is a notoriously challenging field to maintain good boundaries* and also sometimes** this comes from our own personal tendencies and if we don’t get those in check after we pivot we will find ourselves in a different job with the same bad…
My journey to the PMP
I’ve been asked a couple times this week what my journey to earning the PMP (the gold standard for project management certifications, worldwide) looked like. How long did it take? Was it hard? How much did I spend? Would I recommend it? (Cliffs notes at the end!) And so, without further ado,…
A Preamble: In service of a more just, loving, competent, interdependent, and hopeful world
I woke up on Sunday with a renewed urgency for the mission of Caroline Manages and what I’m doing here – what we’re doing, together. In doing so, I think I closed a loop that’s been open for me for years now: what it means to professionally value love. Between the disturbing…
Getting Started with Project Management
Over on Instagram this week, I conducted a poll: If you’re running into roadblocks learning about project management, what’s the number one thing stopping you? The answer was overwhelming: I’m not sure where to start. So, in true Caroline Manages form, I’d love to provide you with a resource you can bookmark…
On unblocking learning agility
While learning how to make an Instagram reel I started googling “how to improve my learning agility”. This sentence is a hall-of-famer in terms of summing up my overall personality as well as a specific season in my career. I like learning new facts, but I do not particularly like learning how…