Sparkle Learning Solutions

It was a nice journey.... what is left is our gift for all of you who would like to learn and start to work in

Cheers!

Dear friends, we had to close our company some time ago, however, we will never quit trying to help people around the world to grow and get a in wonderful area of .

We are proud of our past journey and would like to share our best product "The SPARK Method" Project Management course with you and fully for free!

https://www.udemy.com/course/project-management-career-start-the-spark-method-14/

Course in placed on Udemy for free access and is split into 4 parts due to Udemy lenght requirements.

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!" 😘

📣 We landed on Discord!

Five months ago, together with a group of fantastic content creators, experts in Project and Product Management, we were launching our first PM Community Challenge on Instagram to connect and engage people around . An experiment that resulted in the outreach to over 8k people on IG and the validation of a need: there are many individuals like us looking for spaces to network, share, and learn about project and product management, communication, and leadership.

➡️ Here comes our response: a virtual community, hosted on Discord, where can find:

- a professional, safe space to network and talk about real professional experiences in different industries and countries;
- continuous learning opportunities;
- diverse perspectives on how to deal with their challenges.

After a first testing period with a closed group of early adopters, we are now ready to open access to our server.

👾Join free! DM me “Network” to receive the joining info.

What is a servant leader? What are the responsibilities of leaders today?

More and more it is becoming clear that one person can do very little in today’s fast-pacing, data driven world.

We need teams of people to handle complex topics and team members who are engaged, who are thinking, creating and being empowered to make definitions.

In that scenario, team leaders have to make sure that team members have everything that is necessary to achieve goals, set clear directions and leave team members to find how they can achieve those goals.

What is your definition of a servant leader? What you would add?

Importance of having trust in a team is easy to understand. However, the question is: “how we can translate this value to actual behavior”.

Trust means that „i trust you that you will do something”, but often we do not specify what that „something” means.

One great way to translate this conceptual value to actual behavior is through practice called “social contract”.

It's Finals time!!!

It was wonderful to read your amazing submissions and we had a hard time to choose the best. As a matter of fact, we need your help for that 😊

In the next few days, our will be posting stories where you can vote and get the best explanation of Project Managers job in one sentence!

Congratulations to our finalists .got.this.project !!!

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Before we move to voting, it’s time to have some honorable mentions and wonderful definitions.

said that Project Management „is the magic wand that makes the world go round one step at the time.”

said: „For me it is multitasking to make great things happen, while collaborating with amazing people, who belive in and work on reaching the Northern Star❣”

and say that a PM “makes it all happen.”.
monsur demostrates no-nonsense approach when saying that a PM “completes the scope without giving excuses.”

goes big and says that a PM is “the one making everyone happy and everything achieved.”

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What do you think about these submissions? Aren’t they just amazing? 😊

What to do if trust "does not work"?

Trust Is about building relations and proving that you are doing what you are saying.

It takes time, conversations, agreements and iterations.

Even if the Answer is complicated, it is definitely not in returning back to micromanagement.

Continue with honest talks, feedbacks and standing behind your words.

Use Escalation as absolutely the last choice, only if nothing else works.

Why it is so hard to trust to someone?

By giving control to your team members, and trusting them that they will perform well, you become vulnerable and dependent on your team.

However, that is the necessary step. You are still responsible for your team, but you do not control each step.

It is a hard task. it takes courage to trust to someone and give control away. That is where your courage and maturity comes in.

How do you pracise trust in your team?

If there is no trust, you easily get to:

1. Micro-management. You start to oversee every task, every move and you take responsibility for everything your team does.

2. "Treating people like kids”. Rather to converse and discuss, you are just telling to your team members what to do and try to simplify tasks too much. You do not allow them to think on their own.

3. Control over substance. You concentrate more on control and reporting than on actual work, progress and tasks.

4. Team members emotional detachment. In such circumstances, team members just stop to care and be involved. They will come to work just to finish 8 hours and at the same time search for something else.

5. Low motivation. Your team members will not be motivated to do things better, in a more efficient way or to contribute up to their full potential.

What do you do when you are part of the team when there is a lack of trust?