Leveraging Soft Skills for Career Advancement: A Comprehensive Guide
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ July 23, 2024
While hard skills are vital, soft skills are what differentiate outstanding professionals from their peers. Mastering soft skills like stakeholder...
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Learning from CEOs’ Viral Misconduct
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ May 3, 2023
Leadership "fumbles" are popping up left and right... we're using fumbles loosely. The ability to record nearly anywhere partnered with...
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Organizational Culture That Supports Learning Curves
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ September 5, 2022
Have you seen the LinkedIn post that everyone is talking about? The one about the “crying CEO.” If you need...
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Soft Skills That Are Actually Hard Currency
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ July 4, 2022
There are four specific aspects of leadership that make a great deal of a difference in your level of professionalism...
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The Teacher Named ‘Failure’
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ September 19, 2020
I’ve always thought that any failure is a waste unless one learns something from it. But when K-Mart sank under...
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What Do We Do With PowerPoint Now?
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ September 12, 2020
KSP Partnership is proud to participate in the Black Diamond Charity work teaching returning veterans project management tools. As part...
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How You Lead is How You Behave
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ August 28, 2020
Sometime I get to witness a really interesting range of behavior. A particular example is stuck in my mind. At...
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Relationship Management – Compare and Contrast
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ July 30, 2020
Busily 'clipping' articles I found interesting, an article on managing contacts from last year caused a pause. As project leaders,...
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Loss
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ July 17, 2020
An article on supporting employees coping with grief was published in Jan 2020. No one could have predicted the need...
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Lessons in Social Media… What 7 weeks of double pneumonia taught me
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ July 2, 2020
After a short trip to Guam, my occasional walking pneumonia morphed into double pneumonia. Let’s get the important bit out...
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By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ June 23, 2020
But It Doesn’t Really Matter to YOU But it doesn’t really matter to YOU – is what I often hear...
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Video Access Fatigue
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ May 1, 2020
Month 2 of video chats, video conferences, video lessons (giving and getting), and video meetings is beginning here in Illinois. ...
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What Does Your Customer Need?
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ April 24, 2020
Have you ever accidentally gotten in your own way? Every project manager, every project leader balances the wants and needs...
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Introverts – Evolution’s Saviors
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ April 7, 2020
As a extrovert - someone who gets a lot of energy from interactions with others - I have somehow managed...
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Is It Boring or Is It Room for Reflection?
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ March 31, 2020
What can I do?! Interestingly enough folks have begun posting semi-desperate requests for suggestions about what to do now that...
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Robust & Rich Through Diversity
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ February 26, 2020
What the blazes will it take before people are confident enough to achieve an environment of diverse opinions, levels of...
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Time is More Important Than Money
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ February 11, 2020
I have a love/hate relationship with time management. You know, you love what good time management delivers. You hate...
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Convictions
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ February 3, 2020
Convictions - those things you believe in, that are not negotiable. This from a woman who points out, in her...
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Courage of Your Convictions
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ January 25, 2020
My answer was, and is, “Courage of your convictions”. The question? Nicki Anderson, a local leader, asked her community what...
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8000 Risks – Really?
By Kimi Ziemski, MBA, PMP, CSM
/ January 13, 2020
In his great book “The Body” Bill Bryson explores all of the amazing things that, together, comprise our bodies –...
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