Episode 24: Three Tips for Setting Yourself Up for a Productive Day
In this episode, I share some tactics that have helped me to be my most productive and work on the things that matter to my projects and clients. I hope these ideas help you to set yourself up for a productive day!
Episode 23: Three Tactics on How to Recover from a Failed or Troubled Project
In this episode, I share three tactics on how you can recover from a failed or troubled project. Are you up for a challenge to build your Project Leadership skills? The first tactic is the most difficult if you’re up for it!
Episode 22: A Cool Hack to Increase Your Reading Comprehension and Retention
In this episode, I share a cool hack that I discovered during my vacation last week on how you can increase your reading comprehension and retention. As Project Leaders, we need to absorb and learn a lot of information so I hope this trick will make it a bit easier!
Episode 21: How Diverse is your Development Group?
In this episode, I preview a snippet of the pre-training that was included in the Project Leader Career Plan Challenge that started this week. Learn about why you need two categories of people in your life to help you reach your full potential.
Episode 20: Project Marketing and Stakeholder Prompt Lists
In this episode, I share my thoughts on creating a project marketing plan and using Stakeholder prompt lists to identify stakeholders that you may not have thought of during your project planning.
Episode 19: The CHALLENGE is Officially Launched!!
I’m so excited to share a milestone with you! I’ve been hinting at this project for weeks now on the podcast, and wanted to share about the Project Leader Career Plan Challenge that is now officially launched! You can register for the Challenge at: cpchallenge.procollabconsulting.com
Episode 18: Clarifying Project Scope Through SMART Objectives
If you’ve ever had trouble building elements of your project management plan including your schedule or budget, it could be that your team is unclear about the project scope. In today’s episode, I share a technique of using SMART objectives to gain clarity on what you are delivering on your project and how you expect […]
Episode 17: Outlook on Industrial Construction
In a previous episode, I hinted about an exciting project I’m working on which involves interviewing other Project Leaders. Here is a preview of one of the interviews with Axel Pargas, Senior Director of Global Construction Operations at Worley where he gives us his outlook on Industrial Construction.
Episode 16: Back to Class!
Today was my first day back teaching project management at a university in person. With any new project, there is always a combination of excitement and apprehension for both the Project Manager and her team. Today I share about how my first day back went and a technique I use on my projects to help […]
Episode 15: Networking vs. Genuine Networking
We’ve all heard the common phrase: “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”. So I don’t need to convince you that networking is important. But in this episode, I make the distinction between networking for the numbers vs. genuine networking and building your relationships. I offer a few suggestions on how you can […]