

People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast
Andy Kaufman
Welcome to the People and Projects Podcast, where we provide interviews and insights to help you lead people and deliver projects. Since 2009, this show is brought to you by speaker, author, and executive coach Andy Kaufman. If you're looking for insights on project management, leadership, and how AI influences both of those, you've come to the right place! And if you hold a project management certification, you can even earn free PDUs for listening!
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Oct 17, 2020 • 2min
PPP 305 | (Video) Do You Consider Yourself a Handy Person?
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/

Sep 26, 2020 • 49min
PPP 304 | Preparing Your Career For the Future, with author Michael Solomon
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

Sep 19, 2020 • 33min
PPP 303 | Project Management Career Advice for Women--and Men--with Elise Stevens
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

Aug 27, 2020 • 45min
PPP 302 | Accelerate Your Career By Being a Better Problem-Finder, with author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
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

Aug 20, 2020 • 46min
PPP 301 | What Brutal Honesty Is--And Isn’t--and Why It’s More Important Than Ever, with Peter Kozodoy
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

Aug 13, 2020 • 10min
PPP 300 | Five Things I Want You To Know From The First 300 Episodes
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

Jul 21, 2020 • 49min
PPP 299 | How to Give Your Employees Their Brains Back Through Outrageous Empowerment, with author Ron Lovett
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

Jul 15, 2020 • 44min
PPP 298 | The Art of Being Indispensable at Work, with author Bruce Tulgan
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

Jul 6, 2020 • 54min
PPP 297 | Want to Grow As a Leader? How to Build a Peer Coaching Community, with author Glain Roberts-McCabe
Glain Roberts-McCabe joins us for episode 297 to talk about her new book The Grassroots Leadership Revolution: Build a Peer Coaching Community and Own Your Career. Learn more about Glain and her book at GoRoundTable.com. Join me for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us 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 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

Jun 18, 2020 • 34min
PPP 296 | Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward for Leaders, with author Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Stop Being a Bystander Veteran economist and corporate leader Sylvia Ann Hewlett joins us to talk about her book #MeToo in the Corporate World: Power, Privilege, and the Path Forward. Learn more about Sylvia and her book at SylviaAnnHewlett.com/. Listen to earn half a free leadership PDU while being challenged to stop being a bystander to inappropriate behavior. Join me for our Virtual Project Management Training Program! Learn how to improve your ability to lead and deliver! Join us 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 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