People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast

What I Taught Today We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was recently taught. In this episode, I share some thoughts about one of my favorite ways to coach someone. Let Me Hear From You! What have you been learning lately? What are you reading? Please e-mail me (show [AT] PeopleAndProjectsPodcast [DOT] com) or leave a message on our Listener Feedback Line (847-550-3747). I look forward to hearing from you! Please give us feedback about The People and Projects Podcast! Take our Listener Survey at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/ListenerSurvey. Thank you! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! Total Duration 3:27 Download episode 205

How To Build an 'A' Team A continual challenge for those of us who lead teams and projects is this: how can we help our team perform at their best? Project demands are only growing and the only way to meet those demands is to have a high-performing team, yet how do you do that? How do you build an 'A' team? Whitney Johnson has some ideas about that and includes them in her new book Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve. Once you hear how her S curve works, you're going to find yourself calling back to it over and over. Learn more about Whitney and her work at https://whitneyjohnson.com/.   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, if you know of a group at your organization that has an upcoming large group gathering and uses outside speakers, let them know about the podcast! I'd love to work with them to help improve their ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! {vimeo}https://vimeo.com/278655398{/vimeo} SLOW CURVES and JISHMA by Split Phase Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode, I share some thoughts about pluralistic ignorance--a concept that can change how you experience meetings as a participant and as a leader. Click here to watch a video of Daniel Ariely demonstrate the idea in his class at Duke's business school, Let Me Hear From You! What have you been learning lately? What are you reading? Please e-mail me (show [AT] PeopleAndProjectsPodcast [DOT] com) or leave a message on our Listener Feedback Line (847-550-3747). I look forward to hearing from you! Please give us feedback about The People and Projects Podcast! Take our Listener Survey at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/ListenerSurvey. Thank you! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! Total Duration 6:41 Download episode 203 FUNKORAMA by Kevin McLeod Licensed under an Attribution 3.0 License.

Work Smarter, Not Harder? Organizations are constantly trying to find ways to do more with less. How often have you heard someone say that we need to work smarter, not harder? It's a cliché that U.C. Berkeley Management Professor Morten Hansen decided to tackle with rigorous research--what does it mean to work smarter, not harder? The results are now available in Morten's book Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More. The book is filled with evidence-based insights that align very nicely with good project management practices. Learn more about Morten and his work at https://www.mortenhansen.com/.   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, if you know of a group at your organization that would like to improve their ability to lead and deliver, let them know about the podcast! We have practical engaging workshops that I would love to facilitate at your company. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/workshops. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! DIVIDER by Chris Zabriskie Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License.

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. I recorded this before hopping on a red eye back to Chicago after a great day of speaking and learning at PMI Mile Hi's Symposium in Denver. I share some lessons from a conversation with a podcast listener as well as from a keynote from Marcus Buckingham. Let Me Hear From You! What have you been learning lately? Please e-mail me (show [AT] PeopleAndProjectsPodcast [DOT] com) or leave a message on our Listener Feedback Line (847-550-3747). I look forward to hearing from you! Please give us feedback about The People and Projects Podcast! Take our Listener Survey at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/ListenerSurvey. Thank you! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! {vimeo}https://vimeo.com/265866234{/vimeo} Total Duration 6:36 Download episode 201 FUNKORAMA by Kevin McLeod Licensed under an Attribution 3.0 License.

Sustainable Pace There are so many ideas in agile project management that I appreciate, and one of my favorites is the principle of sustainable pace. The idea of sustainable pace is that whatever effort we’re putting into our projects, we should be able to sustain it for the long haul. This agile principle acknowledges that our ability to deliver value is harmed when we’re not maintaining a sustainable pace. Now we all would nod our heads that sustainable pace is a good idea, but in practice, many work cultures are far from it. In fact, in conversation after conversation I hear executive coaching clients and audience members talk about dealing with the other extreme—long hours, working on weekends, and high levels of stress. The problem is serious and to mark this special occasion of episode 200, we are joined by Stanford Business School professor Jeffrey Pfeffer. Jeff is the author of Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance--And What We Can Do About It. If you lead people, I believe this is a must-read. Learn more about Jeffrey and his work at https://jeffreypfeffer.com/.   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, if you know of a group at your organization that has an upcoming large group gathering and uses outside speakers, let them know about the podcast! I'd love to work with them to help improve their ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! {vimeo}https://vimeo.com/265112639{/vimeo} TIKOPIA by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License. TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT by Johnny Paycheck available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2H48Wmr RETRO FUTURE CLEAN by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License.

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. As we celebrate episode 199, I talk about some lessons based on a New York Times Opinion piece. There's so much to love about convenience. Yet where can convenience creep into our lives as leaders, in a way that actually hinders us? You can read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html. Let Me Hear From You! What have you been learning lately? Please e-mail me (show [AT] PeopleAndProjectsPodcast [DOT] com) or leave a message on our Listener Feedback Line (847-550-3747). I look forward to hearing from you! Please give us feedback about The People and Projects Podcast! Take our Listener Survey at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/ListenerSurvey. Thank you! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! Have a great week! {vimeo}https://vimeo.com/264345927{/vimeo} Total Duration 11:36 Download episode 199 FUNKORAMA by Kevin McLeod Licensed under an Attribution 3.0 License.

Leadership Lessons I'll bet you recently walked by a beautifully landscaped area—maybe it was someone's home, or on a college or corporate campus. You walked by that beautiful area and perhaps you told yourself, "Wow. That's stunning." But here's something I bet you didn't say to yourself: "Wow. That's stunning! This place must have an amazing program to develop outstanding leaders!" I bring this up because beautiful landscaping doesn't just happen. And today you'll hear about leadership lessons from someone whose teams have won national championships when it comes to the most beautiful college campuses. Jeff McManus is the author of Growing Weeders into Leaders, a little book packed with leadership lessons that apply to all of us. Learn more about Jeff and his work at http://jeffmcmanusspeaking.com/.   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, if you know of a group at your organization that has an upcoming large group gathering and uses outside speakers, let them know about the podcast! I'd love to work with them to help improve their ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/keynotes. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! {vimeo}https://vimeo.com/263089330{/vimeo} THE FOREST AND THE TREES by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License. NONSTOP by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License.

'When To' Instead of Just 'How To' We are faced with all kinds of decisions that require us to figure out what to do. The world is filled with books that tell us How to do things, but here's a thought.... Could it be that When To is just as important--maybe even more important--than How to? That's the premise of a new book from my guest today, Daniel Pink. Dan joined us back in episode 88, and he's back to talk about his new book entitled When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Learn more about Dan and his work at http://www.danpink.com/.   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, let your head of sales know about us! I'd love to help their sales teams to improve their ability to lead and deliver. Learn more at https://i-leadonline.com/GreatSalesPros. Thanks! Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! CARPE DIEM by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License. TIMING IS EVERYTHING by Garrett Hedlund available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2FVKL4N

Learn How to Learn Learning to learn is what experts call the ultimate survival tool, one of the most important talents of the modern era, the skill that precedes all other skills. The idea is that once you know how to learn, you can learn almost anything. And in today's world of constant disruption and automation, if you and I are not learning, it's only a matter of time before our current skills lose relevance. The best person I know to help us learn how to learn is Ulrich Boser, author of a great new book entitled Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. Learn more about Ulrich and his work at http://ulrichboser.com/.   For Your Administrative Assistant! If you have an administrative assistant, here's an idea for how you can invest in them! Our Effective Administrative Assistant Webinar Series starts up soon. Learn more at https://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/Admin Thank you for joining me for this episode of The People and Projects Podcast! ACES HIGH by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License. ENTER THE PARTY by Kevin Macleod Licensed under a Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 License.