PMO Strategies

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey, IMPACT Driver! Do you ever get a random request from your boss or business leaders and get frustrated that they are adding more and more to your already full plate? What you may not realize is that you have a golden opportunity to turn these out-of-the-blue requests into something meaningful and measurable that positions you more formally as the strategic business partner in the eyes of your business leaders. This is something that comes up for so many PMO leaders as they are building and elevating their PMOs and in this episode, you’ll learn how to think differently about these requests and use them to further secure your seat at the table. Enjoy!     Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! I am betting you’re in a position where you must manage multiple projects…at one time. Whether you’re building out PMO services and capabilities or being asked to “just” manage a few projects while setting up a PMO, you need to be as effective and efficient as possible. If that’s the case, how do we maximize our IMPACT when there are so many things we’re supposed to be doing at once? How do we support our project managers also managing multiple projects and ensure that everyone avoids burnout? In this episode, we have Elizabeth Harrin, author of Managing Multiple Projects, with us to talk about ways to best support the project managers in your organization that are managing multiple projects AND ways you can also more effectively manage your own project workload.   Elizabeth Harrin is a project management expert and founder of RebelsGuideToPM.com. An author of seven project management books, mentor and experienced practitioner, Elizabeth prides herself on her straight-talking, real-world advice for project managers. She uses her twenty years’ experience doing the job to help people deliver better quality results whilst ditching the burnout. Enjoy!       Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! This week, we’re doing part two of our fun discussion called IMPACT After Hours with our usual gang of thought leaders at the PMO IMPACT Summit and the audience just loved it. So, in case you missed it, or just wanted to hear it again, I’ve broken it up into two digestible episodes. This week’s episode is the second half of that fun and IMPACT-filled session to help you think about ways that you can accelerate your PMO IMPACT and show more PMO value fast. Special thanks to my IAH crew, Amanda Oakenfull, Donna Fitzgerald, Mike Hannan, and Stuart Easton for joining me. It was fun to get the gang back together! Enjoy!     Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! You’re going to love the next two episodes! Have you heard of the series of webinars we do called IMPACT After Hours? If not, you’re in for a surprise treat. Do you remember back in the good old days when we used to sit around a pub or coffee shop with some of your colleagues talking about what it’s really like to work in PMOs? That’s what this is like, but virtual. We get real, raw, and honest, while also inspiring new ways to solve problems and take immediate action on what you’re learning. We hosted one of these fun discussion sessions with our usual gang of thought leaders at the PMO IMPACT Summit and the audience just loved it. So, in case you missed it, or just wanted to hear it again, I’ve broken it up into two digestible episodes. This week’s episode is the first half of that fun and IMPACT-filled session to help you think about ways that you can accelerate your PMO IMPACT and show more PMO value fast. Special thanks to my IAH crew, Amanda Oakenfull, Donna Fitzgerald, Mike Hannan, and Stuart Easton for joining me. It was fun to get the gang back together! Enjoy!     Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! We’re diving into the second half of the PMO IMPACT Summit Speaker Q&A session where we explore ways that you can accelerate your PMO IMPACT. This session welcomed great thought leaders Andy Jordan, Alex Chapman, Curtis Jenkins, Ed Leydon, and John Driessnack to share their top insights and expertise in a fun Q&A style format. If you missed episode 150 and the first half of the Q&A session, that’s OK! Now you can binge listen to both episodes back-to-back! 😊 Enjoy!       Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! Wow! What another great PMO IMPACT Summit. My heart is so full of joy from the wonderful feedback from participants saying that they are feeling so much more inspired AND enabled to make a bigger IMPACT in their organizations. That’s exactly why we do these events, dear IMPACT Driver! This is Episode 150 of the PMO Strategies podcast, which means we’ve been around for about 3 years now! It seemed fitting to continue the great energy from our event last week by sharing a little of the great content you might have missed or just want to devour again! The theme for this most recent PMO IMPACT Summit was Accelerate Your PMO IMPACT and all the sessions were geared toward helping PMO leaders find their edge and drive more value for their organizations. Some of the speakers joined me for a live Q&A during the event to talk about the concepts they covered in their sessions and shared ideas on how to accelerate your PMO IMPACT. This week’s episode is the first half of that 90-minute discussion. Enjoy! Special thanks to Andy Jordan, Alex Chapman, Curtis Jenkins, Ed Leydon, and John Driessnack for your time in the Q&A session!     Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills (Leadership) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! Since it’s summit week, for this week’s podcast, I thought it would be a good time to talk to you about an incredibly important and often undervalued aspect of our self-development – peer connection. Learning from others and how they are doing what they are doing, sharing your successes (and failures), and growing together is an important way to accelerate your IMPACT. Make sure you are joining us live this week, starting today, and for the recordings through Friday so we can accelerate our IMPACT together.   Listen in to learn more.   Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! We’re continuing our deep dive into the business challenges that showed up on the PMO Outlook Report for 2022 and beyond. We’ve gone deep into three of the big challenges that showed up for PMO leaders and executives in the areas of resource management, project prioritization, and metrics and reporting. This week, we’re looking at the last of the biggest challenges reported – financial management. There’s a good chance the financial management challenges you’re having are just a symptom of an ever more pressing root cause that isn’t related. And if this root cause is your real challenge, you can’t do anything to get financial management right until you address this. Listen in to learn more. DOWNLOAD PMO OUTLOOK REPORT   Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! We’re continuing our deep dive into the business challenges that showed up on the PMO Outlook Report for 2022 and beyond. We’ve gone deep on two of the biggest challenges for PMO leaders and executives - resource management and project prioritization. Now, let’s look at the third biggest challenge that came upon this report – visibility and reporting. The report was clear – lack of good, centralized data. However, before you even start saying, “We need a tool,” you must look at your process and what you’re measuring, then figure out what you actually need – it’s probably less than you think! Listen in to discover the way to fast-track your reporting IMPACT while leaning on the most important success metrics for the projects and your PMO. DOWNLOAD PMO OUTLOOK REPORT   Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen (Strategic and Business Management) Hey there, IMPACT Driver! We’re continuing our deep dive into the business challenges that showed up on the PMO Outlook Report for 2022 and beyond. Last week, we looked at the big challenge of resource management. This week, we’re diving into project prioritization. In this report, we see some staggering statistics related to the underlying root causes of prioritization and I share why the biggest problems with prioritization are likely there because we’re looking at this all wrong! Join me for this episode to discover why you shouldn’t really be saying no to projects and how to get your business leaders to the table to have the right prioritization conversations once and for all! DOWNLOAD PMO OUTLOOK REPORT       Thanks for taking the time to check out the podcast! I welcome your feedback and insights!  I’d love to know what you think and if you love it, please leave a rating and review in your favorite podcast player. Please leave a comment below to share your thoughts. See you online! Warmly, Laura Barnard     GET NOTIFIED ABOUT NEW EPISODES TELL US WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN PDU REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS