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Workplace relationships can turn failure into success
09/04/08
Changing yourself and your colleagues can create better workplace relationships and turn failure into success.
Staff should be encouraged to absorb more information but allowed the space to be innovative, experts say.
Those who can increase their ‘absorptive capacity’ can make a big difference to the outcome of a project.
And ‘possibility spaces’ enable creativity to flourish in working relationships.
These cutting-edge concepts will be among those discussed at an event in Birmingham, aimed at helping project or programme managers to conduct better working relationships.
The event is the first in a series organised by the pioneering Centre for Project Management Practice (CPMP), which opened recently at Aston Business School in Birmingham.
Academics will introduce highly innovative perspectives on working relationships, in a bid to radically alter the way managers conduct their work.
The third concept to be discussed will be the use of 'wiki's’ to spread your social networks and send vital information around your projects quickly.
Centre Director Dr Naomi Brookes said: “This will be a very interesting afternoon for anyone who has a project to manage and the ideas being discussed are at the forefront of current thinking on the topics.”
The first afternoon of seminars is called Managing Relationships in Projects and takes place at Aston Business School on April 25th, from 2pm to 5pm.
Limited spaces are available on a first come, first served basis, by emailing z.ahmad1@aston.ac.uk
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