Last week, Susan had a terrifying experience. She was sitting at her desk among the confines of her tiny cubicle posting the latest eCard. She smiled in gleeful anticipation of the avalanche of likes and comments she knew were soon to come. As she concluded her post, the eerie feeling crept over her – she...

We are very excited to announce the launch of the new ProProfs Project Calendar. Get an overview of all your due projects, tasks, events and drag and drop them to re-plan. We often get emails asking us if we’re going to introduce a calendar system to ProProfs Project. Many of you found that you needed...

A spoonful of sugar spurred Jane and Michael Banks into spectacular productivity with the help of the Law of Attraction and the arrival of efficiency-expert Nanny, Mary Poppins. The most priceless gifts everyone has aren’t how much we can receive, or how many things we have, but what we do with them. As unique each...

Have you ever found yourself questioning how to manage underperforming employees at work? As a project manager, there may be times when you are required to deal with staff who just aren’t performing when compared with their peers. Either they are delivering work below the established standard or are missing task deadlines frequently, or doing...

The three primary ways in which humans interact are conversations, transactions and collaborations. This post explains each one of these and shows how each are important at times during our working life. Conversational Interaction This is where two or more people participate in an exchange of information primarily for relationship building or discovery. There are...

As a project manager, one of the most difficult situations to handle can be the late delivery of a project. It will happen to most managers during their career but handling it well can keep the client on your side and lead to successful completion. No matter how well you plan or run a project,...

Are you a student? Please note this offer is no longer available ProProfs Project is going to be completely free for full-time students. We’re going to give away the Small Business version of ProProfs Project (worth $19 per month) to any students who are studying full-time. This means that you will be able to manage all your...

As a project manager, what’s the first thing you do when planning a project? Set and define project goals, correct? Now, what if you’re unable to grasp the main goal behind executing a project? Or, the goals defined are too vague for your team to understand? There are a lot of aspects to look at...

You invariably set up a few tasks every day, week, or month in your everyday project management workflow. A few of these tasks may include: Daily or weekly goal-setting sessions Work reviews and approvals Monthly newsletters Weekly status reports and more As a project manager, you juggle a mind-numbing amount of daily tasks and endless...