People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast

Rising to Power The good news? You're getting opportunities for more responsibility. The bad news? It might just be more painful than you think. Ron Carucci joins us for episode 307 to talk about his insightful book Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives. Ron shares insights to help you prepare for increasing levels of responsibility that will both inspire and challenge you. And he shares some insights about his upcoming book about honesty. I can't wait to share this episode with you! Learn more about Ron at navalent.com/. After you listen to this episode, check out our discussion with Peter Kozodoy about his book on honesty in episode 301.   Have Andy Speak at Your Company Whether live in-person or virtually, contact us about having Andy speak at your company. Our keynotes and workshops can help improve your teams' ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/workshops.   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   SuccessfulTransitions by Lilo Sound Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6581-successfultransitions License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Beatback#1 by Lilo Sound Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6766-beatback-1 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Work Hard scene from Creed available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=gM2utA01vRo

Fighting Back Against Bureaucracy So, what does it take to get ahead at work? If you’ve ever worked for a corporation of almost any size, you’ve had a front-row seat to the life-sucking waste that happens because of bureaucracy. It’s certainly an issue as organizations get larger, but I’ve seen it bog down small companies as well. Gary Hamel joins us for episode 306 to talk about his new book Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them. Gary doesn't just talk about the problems--he also shares ideas that you and I can start using to start building our own humanocracies. Learn more about Gary at garyhamel.com/.   Join Us for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us this fall for the same project management program we deliver in-house at organizations around the world! Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/learning.   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   Can't Gallop Without You and The Sweet Potato Shuffle by The Polish Ambassador are licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Big Presentation Scene from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=1GbNS7IcCj0  

We Too Often Self-Limit It's been a jam-packed speaking season, but in this short video, I share a quick lesson we need to hear. Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   Summer Ambient Piano by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5504-summer-ambient-piano- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Future-Prepping Your Career Something we all need to wrestle with is this: how are we preparing ourselves for the future? With the continuing advancements in AI and automation, how can you continue to set yourself up to be relevant in the future of disruptions? Michael Solomon joins us to talk about his new book Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy. Michael shares his perspectives on what it means to be a 10xer--someone who provides out-sized results--and how that prepares you for whatever is coming next. Learn more about Michael at 10xmanagement.com/. You can find the Lifestyle Calculator that Michael talks about in the interview at 10xAscend.com/Calculator.   Join Us for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us this fall for the same project management program we deliver in-house at organizations around the world! Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/learning. Use a coupon code of VirtualPM20 to save $150 USD on the entire program!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership Banana Bread Break by The Polish Ambassador is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Vienna Beat by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License 1.21 Gigawatts from Back to the Future available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=f-77xulkB_U We Don't Need Roads from Back to the Future II available on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=fCjsUxbNmIs  

Advocate for Women in Project Management I'm excited to share this conversation with my friend Elise Stevens. Her work advocating for women in project management is an inspiration to me personally, and the insights she shares today are helpful to both men and women. Learn more about Elise at elisestevens.co.   Join Us for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us this fall for the same project management program we deliver in-house at organizations around the world! Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/learning. Use a coupon code of VirtualPM20 to save $150 USD on the entire program!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Strategic and Business Management   I Dare You and The Dweller on Coyote Hill by Little Glass Men is licensed under an Attribution License  

Becoming an Expert Problem-Finder Chances are, you have a reputation as a good problem-solver. That reputation very well could be one of the factors that has led to your success thus far. But here’s the problem--and perhaps you’re already seeing it. The higher you get up in an organization, the larger the scale of your projects and responsibilities, the more difficult the problems you face. I'm joined today by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, author of a new book entitled What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve Learn more about Thomas and his book at wedellsblog.com/.   Join Us for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us this fall for the same project management program we deliver in-house at organizations around the world! Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/learning. Use a coupon code of VirtualPM20 to save $150 USD on the entire program!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back!) Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   Georgia Overdrive and Vienna Beat by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License Sherlock Deduction-A Study in Pink scene, BBC Link: youtube.com/watch?v=v0rC-twlrfg

The Truth Will Set You Free We often think about honesty as "don’t tell lies", and that’s certainly part of it. But in today's episode, Peter Kozodoy helps us see that a big part of brutal honesty is seeing things honestly. Peter has just released an intriguing book released just this month. It’s entitled Honest to Greatness: How Today’s Greatest Leaders Use Brutal Honesty to Achieve Massive Success. Learn more about Peter and his book at PeterKozodoy.com/. Click here to see the Quicken Loans ISMs that Peter refers to in the discussion.   Join Us for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us this fall for the same project management program we deliver in-house at organizations around the world! Learn more at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/learning. Use a coupon code of VirtualPM20 to save $150 USD on the entire program!   The Only Opinion That Matters Is Yours We've learned so much by publishing the first 300 episodes. But we are committed to making the next 300 even better! Share your thoughts by answering this 2-minute survey at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/300. We're holding a drawing for a $50 USD gift card as a Thank You! Take a few minutes right now to help. Thank you!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and Follow me (I've maxed out the connections but if you Follow me, I'll Follow you back! Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   Nuh Na Nuh by Kevin MacLeod Link: Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6429-nuh-na-nuh License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Be Open To New Experiences by WinnieTheMoog Link: Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6393-be-open-to-new-experiences License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Truth Will Set You Free scene, from the movie Liar, Liar Link: youtube.com/watch?v=1jQP0Y2T2OQ

Thank You! There are so many reasons why I want to say thanks to you. This is a special month for me and my team. We’re celebrating 19 years in business, for which we’re immensely thankful. And, with this, we’re celebrating episode 300 today! That's not something that could happen without your support! In this episode, I share five things I've learned from the first 300 episodes.   Help Make The Next 300 Episodes Even Better We’ve created a short survey--it will take just a few minutes. And to add a little incentive, we’re doing a drawing for a $50 USD gift card to Starbucks or Amazon. Just go to PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/300 and share your insights.  The drawing is on 28 August 2020 so do it today! Check out the instructions at the end of the survey to be entered into the drawing. Thank you so much!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and click "Follow". Thank you for joining me for this 300th episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   Camp Fermin, Floating Whist, and Great Great Lengths by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License

Learning to Scale as a Leader If you lead teams and projects, one of the challenges we eventually face is scale. Inevitably, we’re faced with bigger challenges, larger teams, more complexity, and--as we do that--we start to get in our own way. We become the bottlenecks ourselves, or we allow an insidious swamp of policies and procedures to grow to the point that everything takes longer. And in the process, we start to suck the life out of our people. In this episode, we're joined by Ron Lovett to talk about his book Outrageous Empowerment. Learn more about Ron and his book at RonLovett.ca/book.   You Are Earning Free PDU's If you hold a certification from Project Management Institute, you are earning free PDUs! Learn more how to report them at PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/FreePDUs. Thanks!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and send me an invite! Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership Just Chilling by Mikael Hellman Link: Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6294-just-chilling License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ AnotherRainyDay by Lilo Sound Link: Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6138-anotherrainyday License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Did You Get the Memo scene, from the movie Office Space Link: youtube.com/watch?v=jsLUidiYm0w

Becoming The Go-To Person Being the go-to person has a lot of career value, and in times of uncertainty, being the go-to person can seem like it brings a lot of job security. But as our guest Bruce Tulgan says in the opening clip, the problem with becoming a go-to person is that you become the go-to person! It can turn into becoming a Yes person, which can lead to over-commitment, stress, and eventually dropping enough balls, so to speak, that we’re no longer the go-to person! Bruce makes his third appearance with us here on episode 298 of the People and Projects Podcast. He joined us way back in episode 38 to talk about managing our bosses and even earlier in episode 10 to talk about managing Generation Y. 10 years later he joins us to talk about his new book The Art of Being Indispensable at Work. Learn more about Bruce and his book at RainmakerThinking.com.   Increase Your Ability to Influence We teach leaders at the UN and other global organizations how to increase their influence. I'd love to have you join our upcoming virtual Advanced Project Management Masterclass! Save your spot at courses.i-leadonline.com/courses/advanced-pm-masterclass. Thanks!   Let's Stay In Touch! I hear from listeners almost every day and I love it! How about you and I connect on LinkedIn? Go to https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/LinkedIn and send me an invite! Also, all of our other workshops and keynotes are available in a virtual format. Whether you have a live or virtual event, we can help you invest in your team. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Talent Triangle: Leadership   The Lagoon by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4911-the-lagoon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Ambient Corporate by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6188-ambient-corporate License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   Loved Every Minute scene, from the movie Burnt Link: youtube.com/watch?v=HIrIMwKkHKE