Empowering Leaders, Managing Change
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Engage With Your Project Sponsor
How to get more engagement from your project sponsor.
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My Stakeholders Hate Me!
My stakeholders hate me! Or is it my project? Andy Kaufman, the host of the People and Projects Podcast, joins me to discuss what to do if you think your stakeholders hate you… or your project! Andy can be connected with via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/buildleaders/ The People and Projects Podcast can be found with your podcast…
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How to Manage Multiple Projects
The reward for good work? More work! And so it is for project management. As soon as you show that you are capable of managing a project, your boss will ask you to manage a second, then a third… all at the same time. So it was with great joy that I discovered Elizabeth Harrin…
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What is a Project Manager?
I feel guilty about this… it’s taken years to get round to “what is a project manager?” I wish I could say it was part of my content strategy or that I was building up to it. But no… it just slipped off the radar! It’s this level of attention to detail that makes me…
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How I Overcame My Public Speaking Challenges
I made a video about how I overcame my public speaking challenges. In 2022, I was invited to deliver presentations to audiences of strangers about project management. I’ve done presentations before, but only to colleagues in the course of my day job. So presenting to a professional audience proved to be daunting, especially as I…
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This CEO Moved His Company to a 4 Day Work Week – Here’s What Happened!
I’ve had the opportunity to interview Ivan Lloyd, the CEO at edison365, who recently moved the company to a 4 day working week. During the conversation with Ivan we discussed work patterns, salary, working from home, staff retention and much more. It’s safe to say that I’d made a few assumptions going into the conversation,…
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Dealing with a Difficult Boss
Do you have a difficult boss? I’ve had a few, though to be honest – there were times when I wonder if I was the problem… Take a look at my video on my experiences and let me know if you see anyone you know!
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How Much I Earn from Project Management
I’ve decided to lean into maximum transparency today, and have published my salary details for all project management roles from 2008 to 2020 – covering my roles as project manager, PMO Lead, Portfolio Assurance Partner. The video shows the differences in earnings as a permanent staff member, a contractor and a fixed term contract. I…
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Transitioning From the Military to Project Management
This week I’ve had the opportunity to meet with Neil Bloom, a former soldier and now Military Transition Mentor and full time programme manager. We discussed the process of exiting the British Army and his approach to finding a career in project management. The video showing the full interview is above. If you are in…
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What are Project Deliverables, Milestones and Activities?
What are project deliverables? What are milestones? And what are project activities? Are they the same thing? What’s the relationship between them? Deliverables, milestones and activities are conveniently defined for us by PMI – don’t worry, I have a little more here than definitions. Here are the definitions: A project deliverable are any unique and…
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