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Episode 197 - Thriving Project Teams: Retention vs. Turnover
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Cindi Filer What are the pitfalls that project managers should avoid to prevent turnover? Why do team members decide to leave their jobs or project teams? What underlying factors drive their decisions? And, what impact can project managers have? In this episode, we explore these questions with HR expert Cindi Filer and uncover the intricate dynamics behind the retention of project team members.
Episode 196 – The Hidden Value: Understanding Benefits Realization
PDUs: 0.5 Business Acumen Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Rasmus Rytter Do you lead projects that deliver measurable benefits? An often-overlooked aspect of projects is Benefits Realization, and sadly, many projects fail to deliver their intended outcomes. Renowned expert within benefits realization and organizational change, Rasmus Rytter, emphasizes the importance of ensuring projects actually realize the intended positive outcomes for stakeholders.
Episode 195 - Estimate This: Managing Project Estimation
PDUs: 0.5 Ways of Working Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Bob Mahler, Ren Love What obstacles do project managers commonly face when making project estimates? In this episode we delve into the intricate world of project estimation, aiming to demystify the process and highlight key factors essential for accurate projections.
Episode 194 - Strategic Resilience: The Best Defense Against Burnout
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Marie-Helene (MH) Pelletier Burnout and resilience. How can we move beyond viewing resilience as a mere buzzword and dispel the notion that it involves only toughing it out or maintaining a positive attitude?
Episode 193 - Mastering the Project Sales Role: How to Persuade, Lead and Succeed
PDUs: 0.5 Business Acumen Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Harold Samson Project managers use their skills to sell ideas or products to stakeholders, clients, and teams. This sales-oriented role stems from the need to secure resources, foster team alignment, and build client relationships. Successful project managers develop diverse sales-oriented skills as they learn how to identify opportunities and close deals.
Episode 192 - Project C.U.R.E. Delivering Health and Hope
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Dave Maddux Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. It has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries.
Episode 191 – Mastering Power Skills for Exceptional Performance
PDUs: 0.75 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Neal Whitten Do you have the Power Skills needed to achieve the level of success you desire? Neal Whitten, author of Power Skills That Lead to Exceptional Performance, emphasizes the importance of foundational power skills that encompass soft skills, behavioral competencies, and personality traits essential for leaders, aspiring leaders, and team members alike.
Episode 190 – Meta-Leadership: Integrating Thinking, Emotion, and Behavior
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Constance Dierickx Better leadership leads to better outcomes. Our guest Constance Dierickx PhD., author of Meta-Leadership: How to See What Others Don’t and Make Great Decisions, lays out a new paradigm for leadership that offers leaders a way to synthesize thinking, emotion, and behavior.
Episode 189 - Harmonizing Potential - The Jazz of High-Performing Project Teams
PDUs: 0.25 Ways of Working 025 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Gerald J. Leonard What can we learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team? Gerald J.
Episode 188 – Unlocking the Strengths of Dyslexic Individuals on Project Teams
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Carlene Szostak and Madeline Szostak Hoge Are you unlocking the potential of a neurodiverse workforce and fostering a project team that capitalizes on the strengths of each individual? In this episode we talk about dyslexia and how it impacts a team's productivity and success. Dyslexia is quite common, affecting 15-20% of the population.
Episode 187 – The Best Project Implementation of All Time
PDUs: 0.5 Ways of Working 0.25 Business Acumen Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Sami Othman, Lora Niazov, Gubran Ahmed This is the story of a remarkable project team that decided to go Big Bang with their EPIC project implementation. University Hospitals is a non-profit hospital system in the Greater Cleveland area employing approximately 33,000 caregivers. They introduced a massive initiative focused on the implementation of EPIC, an integrated Electronic Health Record system.
Episode 186 - Mastering Effective Meetings: Strategies for Project Success
What if an outside consultant observed a meeting you facilitated? What grade would you earn? Project leaders know effective meetings contribute significantly to project success, and our guests are here to help. Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart say we should apply the same strategic mindset to meetings as we do to our projects.
Episode 185 - Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management
PDUs: 0.25 Ways of Working 0.25 Business Acumen Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Dr. Joel Carboni Projects are instrumental in defining an organization's vision for a more sustainable future. We are talking with Dr. Joel Carboni about Green Project Management and aligning project management practices with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Episode 184 - What if Your Project was Fighting Homelessness?
PDUs: 0.5 Power Skills 0.25 Business Acumen Listen Here 0:00 0:00 Our Guest This Episode: Amy King “As we learned more, we just realized we couldn’t look away, and we couldn’t not do anything.” Amy King has become a champion for the homeless. In a natural disaster that leaves thousands homeless, or in the disaster of homelessness, people need safe, rapidly deployable, private spaces. This is the problem Amy seeks to address. With her husband Brady, she created Pallet to offer temporary housing.
Episode 183 - My Team is Self-Organizing, What am I Supposed to Do? Agile Teams and the PM's Role
How can project managers create conditions for self-organizing teams to thrive? Traditionally, project managers are taught to direct and control team members. In the agile world of a self-organizing team, the trend is to empower the team so the individuals doing the work can make decisions. In that environment, what role do project managers play? Do they become product managers? Scrum masters? Does the team need a leader at all?
Episode 182 - How GREAT is your Resistance? Changing a No to a Yes
When we present a request to our team, we want everybody to say yes, but some team members are going to say no and offer resistance. If we can identify the reasons why people say no, we can be more effective in getting them to follow our requests. Patrick Veroneau introduces us to an acronym called GREAT to understand the resistance we may be facing from our team.
Episode 182 - How GREAT is your Resistance? Changing a No to a Yes
When we present a request to our team, we want everybody to say yes, but some team members are going to say no and offer resistance. If we can identify the reasons why people say no, we can be more effective in getting them to follow our requests. Patrick Veroneau introduces us to an acronym called GREAT to understand the resistance we may be facing from our team.
Episode 181 – Contract Strategies - Ten Key Principles of Contracting
“Contractors do good projects well and bad projects poorly.” These are the words of Ed Merrow, the Founder, President, and CEO of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA). Selecting contractors and negotiating the terms of a major project is one of the most difficult aspects of project management. In this episode, Ed sheds light on what we need in our contracting relationships to be fair, for the relationships to be self-enforcing, and how not to unwittingly set your contractors up to fail.
Episode 181 – Contract Strategies - Ten Key Principles of Contracting
“Contractors do good projects well and bad projects poorly.” These are the words of Ed Merrow, the Founder, President, and CEO of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA). Selecting contractors and negotiating the terms of a major project is one of the most difficult aspects of project management. In this episode, Ed sheds light on what we need in our contracting relationships to be fair, for the relationships to be self-enforcing, and how not to unwittingly set your contractors up to fail.
Episode 180 - Fuel Your Project with the Power of Dynamic Documentation
Drive your team forward with Dynamic Documentation. The underlying practice of documentation leads to efficient teams and project success.
Episode 179 – Love Project Management - Come as You Are!
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Ren Love is the newest member of our Velociteach team and the Manager of Curriculum Development. Hear about her unique management experiences as she talks about leadership, interviewing, the PMP exam, and coping with testing anxiety.
Episode 178 – My Project is a Three-Ring Circus!
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Sometimes a project can feel like a three-ringed circus! You are managing the schedule, the budget, and the requirements, and at the same time, you've got to consider the stakeholders, team members, and the organization.
Episode 177 – Work Better Together – Managing Thinking Preferences
When it comes to problem solving or innovation, the goal is to generate ideas, make those ideas better, and then implement them. But what if we are skipping some important stages of the creative problem-solving process?
Episode 176 – Strength and Warmth – Balancing Your Leadership Style
Do you come across too strong? Are you a pushover? How likeable are you as a leader? Our guest is Matthew Kohut, a communications expert, who has written speeches and coached executives at many organizations, including NASA, Harvard University, the Department of Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Matt maintains that a great leader strikes a balance between warmth and strength.
Episode 175 – Managing the Human Side of Transformation
Transformations fail because we are failing to transform our people. With the failure rate on digital transformations ranging between 70 to 95%, undeniably we are doing something wrong. We are honored to have PM Fellow Ricardo Vargas as our guest to tackle this topic. Ricardo maintains that to lead a successful transformation project, it is crucial to manage human behavior and pay attention to the people associated with the transformation.
Episode 174 – Team Up with Emotional Intelligence and Deliver Successful Projects
You’ve heard the statement that herding cats is a crazy way to make a living. Well, if you’re wondering how to keep your team in line, join us as internationally recognized expert on leadership and team development Dr. Vanessa Druskat describes how developing your emotional intelligence can improve your team engagement. The need for emotional intelligence is even more pronounced in project management.
GCAs 2022: Where are they now? Southern Cross
Built over a two-year time-frame at a cost of $350 million, the system provides additional high-capacity connectivity between Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles. It offers an extension to the existing Southern Cross ecosystem adding four fibre pairs, providing 72Tbps capacity that also reduces latency across the main trans-Pacific route.
Episode 173 - On The World Stage: The FIFA World Cup Turf Project
The podcast by project managers for project managers. The FIFA World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world. With billions of people tuning in to view the games, we wondered if anyone noticed the grass! In this unique project story, John Holmes explains how he navigated the selection process and became the exclusive supplier of turfgrass for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. We share the planning, logistics, challenges, constraints and lessons learned in this remarkable project.
GCAs 2022: Where are they now? Sparkle
Described by the judges as “truly a significant innovation which will benefit the industry”, the new platform expands connectivity diversity within the Mediterranean area, taking pressure off the hub of Marseille. Since its GCAs win, two of the platform’s eight slots have recently entered service with the BlueRaman/BlueMed cable, marking the official start of operations on the platform.
Massachusetts Leads With Highest Number of Female Bosses
A new map, created by TollFreeForwarding.com, has revealed the states that are the most and least progressive when it comes to women in management.
Episode 172 – Inheriting a Problem Project – Lessons from the Zoo
What do you do when you inherit a problem project? Megan Young describes a stalled project she inherited that was threatening the accreditation of a popular city zoo. In 2020 The Greenville City Zoo was deficient in some areas, and they had a year to fix it or they were going to lose their accreditation. If a zoo loses accreditation, they also lose many of the popular animals that people come to see. One of the biggest threats to the project was the stalled reconstruction of three primate dens.
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Episode 171 – Raising the Palace Theater - The TSX Broadway Project
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Situated at the most heavily trafficked public space in the world, Times Square in New York is undergoing an extraordinary renovation and expansion project. Hear how the iconic Palace Theatre was raised 30 feet to make room for commercial space below. The goal of this complex project was to preserve the historic theater box, which was built in 1913, and raise it to its new home on the third floor of TSX Broadway.
Episode 170 - Integrating Creative Problem Solving and Project Management
Problems arise throughout the life of a project. What if you had a “go to” creative problem-solving process? Our guest Dr. Amy Climer teaches teams and organizations how to increase their creativity to maximize innovation. She offers a creative problem-solving process both from the leadership perspective, and the team perspective. As Amy says, creativity is far beyond simply generating ideas, and the project manager’s role is critical in the creative process.
A Key Discipline for Top-Performing Teams
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Knowledge Management is a key practice for top-performing teams. We can improve our projects by tapping into, and managing, project knowledge. Join us to learn more about managing project knowledge, knowledge sharing, and nurturing knowledge within an organization.
Manage This Moments - Celebrating Milestones - Velociteach PMP training
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Manage This podcast is celebrating two milestones: seven years and over one million listens! Bill Yates shares about his background in project management and the insights he has learned from our many distinguished guests. Listen in for some Manage This moments as we recap conversations with some of our interesting guests, and we recollect some of the valuable lessons learned from project managers who are working on truly remarkable projects.
How To Manage Several Projects at Once
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Hear practical advice from Elizabeth Harrin on how to more effectively manage a significant project workload, and how to manage several projects at once.
Reduce Cybersecurity Risk for your Projects
The goal of cybersecurity is to protect the data and integrity of your computing from malicious digital attacks. The challenge for a project manager is to implement effective cybersecurity measures to secure yourself, your team, your clients, and your projects as attackers become more innovative. Our guest is Andy Sauer a cybersecurity leader who helps organizations build cybersecurity maturity.
CIRT-An Environmental Project to Reduce Waste-Velociteach PMP
Did you know that what’s recyclable in one city might be trash in another? CIRT, Can I Recycle(/Repurpose/Reuse) This, is a startup company at the University of Georgia working on a solution to help people, governments and businesses figure out what products or packaging are locally recyclable, and how to get them to where they need to go.
Negotiation and Persuasion - Velociteach PMP Training
Two important interpersonal skills for project professionals to sharpen are negotiation and persuasion. Before you embark on your next stakeholder negotiation or try to persuade an unyielding team member, take a listen to Carlene Szostak as she leads us through some important considerations for successful negotiation and persuasion. Carlene describes the types of negotiation commonly employed in a project, and the core traits of a good negotiator.
Supporting Neurodiversity on Project Teams
The podcast by project managers for project managers. As a project professional, are you creating an inclusive, high-performing team that builds on each individual’s strengths? Hiren Shukla, the founder of Neuro-Diverse Centers of Excellence at Ernst & Young Global, talks to us about how to support neurodiversity on project team. Hiren shares the remarkable impact of this innovation at EY as they are tapping into the significant skills of the neurodiverse community.
SmartPM Technologies – Data-Driven Solutions for Project Outcomes
Why do delays on construction projects continue to occur? It might be because project managers have more to do in a day than they can handle, including putting out fires! Those PMs don’t have time for deep schedule analysis. Well, our guest offers some answers. We’re talking with Mike Pink, the founder of SmartPM, a real-time automated analytics platform.
Space Crop Production
We’re exploring the world of astrobotany with this unconventional project. Ralph Fritsche is our guest, and he is the Space Crop Production Project Manager for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ralph is leading the effort to develop sustainable and reliable fresh food systems in support of long duration space missions beyond low Earth orbit. A healthy supply of fresh food is critical to the success of space exploration missions.
Celebrating 20 Years of Project Management Training
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Andy Crowe shares project management advice and reflects on 20 years of training project managers at Velociteach. Hear about his bold move to step away from a successful project management career to launch Velociteach, and what he learned along the way. Listen in for tips on how to find balance if you’re overwhelmed, dealing with uncertainty, and managing changes.
Bridging the Gap between Project Management and Project Oversight
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Who looks out for the owner’s interest to achieve project success while maximizing project value? In this episode Herbert Marshall talks about differentiating project oversight from project management. We look at some best practices for project oversight from the perspective of an owner or client.
Managing Team Culture - Velociteach - PMP Exam Prep
Over the last couple of years, company culture has undergone significant transformation. The fact is every person on a project team has an influence on the culture. As project leaders, we shouldn’t take our responsibility to team culture lightly. We’re talking with culture expert Colin D Ellis about in-office culture, remote culture, and hybrid culture. Colin encourages leaders to shift our mindset from where we work to how we work.
The Project Coach, Boost Project Success- Velociteach PMP Training
As a project manager, do you have an obligation to support your team members’ development for the duration of your project assignment? In this episode, we’re asking Lisa DiTullio how coaching can be done simply, without compromising successful project delivery. She explains how a project manager can effectively coach team members and still get the work done.
Episode 156 – Agile Beyond IT - PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach
We’ve heard the comments about agile: “I don’t work in technology, so how does this apply to me?” Agile isn’t just for software development! Recently Velociteach launched a new InSite course by Alan Zucker called: Agile Beyond IT, a hands-on application of agile practices for non-technology challenges. So, we’ve asked Alan to return as our guest to talk about how agile is relevant beyond IT.
Arrive and Thrive: Impactful Leadership Practices
Having arrived at a position of leadership, do you find you are just managing to survive because of overwhelming pressure from family and professional lives? Listen in for advice on how to flourish in your leadership role as your best self, inspire excellence in your team, and lead a highly fulfilled life. “Arriving” is everything required to get into a position, but to stay successful, it is necessary to embrace the skills needed to “thrive” in that position.
The Largest Wreck Removal in US History Velociteach PMP
“The largest wreck removal operation in United States history” is how this extraordinary project has been labeled. On 8 September 2019, shortly after starting her voyage, the Golden Ray cargo ship capsized within the Port of Brunswick's harbor in the state of Georgia. The 656-ft. car carrier, transporting 4,200 brand new vehicles, had traveled only 23 minutes when she started to list. All 23 crewmen on board as well as an American maritime pilot survived the incident.
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