People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast

PPP 207 | Accelerating Your Agile Journey, with author Johanna Rothman

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Your Agile Journey If you spend enough time leading projects, you can't miss the fact that agile approaches continue to gain in popularity. What seeme...

PPP 206 | (Video) My Favorite Hack to Avoid Missing The Next Big Learning Opportunity

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned Today We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned or taught this week. In this episode...

PPP 205 | (Video) What I Taught Today: One of My Favorite Ways to Coach Someone

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 som...

PPP 204 | How to Build an A Team, with author Whitney Johnson

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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? Pr...

PPP 203 | (Video) What I Learned This Week (You'll Never Experience Meetings the Same Once You Know About It)

10 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 sh...

PPP 202 | How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, with author Morten Hansen

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

PPP 201 | (Video) What I Learned From a Podcast Listener This Week About Coffee Every Friday (and Strengths, from Marcus Buckingham)

21 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 befor...

PPP 200 | Why Too Many Project Managers Are Dying for a Paycheck--And What You Can Do About It, with Jeffrey Pfeffer

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

PPP 199 | (Video) What I Learned This Week About Convenience

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 episo...

PPP 198 | How to Grow Leaders, from Chief Weed Puller (and author) Jeff McManus

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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. Y...

PPP 197 | The Perfect Time for Meetings, Taking the Certification Exam, and Just About Everything Else, with author Daniel Pink

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

'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 t...

PPP 196 | The Most Important Talent Project Managers Need to Succeed, with author Ulrich Boser

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

PPP 195 | How to Have a Conversation With That Stakeholder Who Drives You Crazy (And Anyone Else), with NPR Host Celeste Headlee

18 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Lost Art of Conversation George Bernard Shaw once said "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." As l...

PPP 194 | How to Get to Yes Without Manipulating, with author and influence expert Tim David

10 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Influencing Skills for Leaders For those of us responsible for leading teams and projects, there are a core set of skills we need to develop. We need ...

PPP 193 | How To Improve Relationships in the Workplace, with Todd Davis, Chief People Officer at FranklinCovey

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everything Comes Down to Relationships It's the dirty little secret of business. Your career will be boosted or restrained by how well you build and m...

PPP 192 | (Video) Learning About the Business and the Power of Rapport: What Susanne Madsen Learned This Week

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What Susanne Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I inv...

PPP 191 | (Video) Blend In and Play It Safe? Or Take the Risk of Standing Out? What I Learned This Week

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share som...

PPP 190 | (Video) Two Lessons About Where to Focus and Gaining Buy-in: What I Learned This Week

11 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share som...

PPP 189 | How to Tame Your Nerves Before the Big Meeting, Presentation, or Exam, with Harvard Business Review Senior Editor Dan McGinn

08 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"Calm Down" Doesn't Work What is something in your near future that's causing you to feel nervous? For example: A certification exam that you'll be t...

PPP 188 | 10 Principles for Leaders of Any Age to Stay Vital, Happy, and Sharp, with Brain Rules author Dr. John Medina

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hacking Your Brain Since the first Brain Rules book came out in 2009, I've been a big fan of Dr. John Medina. John is one of the clearest voices on ho...

PPP 187 | (Video) What You Need to Know About PMOs: Today and In The Future, with Peter Taylor, Bill Dow, and Hussain Bandukwala

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The State of the PMO In this video episode, I invite Peter Taylor, Bill Dow, and Hussain Bandukwala to a roundtable discussion about project managemen...

PPP 186 | (Video) Two Words You Need to Say This Week. What I Learned This Week

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share a l...

PPP 185 | Leadership and Self-Deception, with Mitch Warner from The Arbinger Institute

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A Must-Read Book You know that boss that's driving you crazy? Or that stakeholder? We all have them--people who most charitably could be referred to a...

PPP 184 | How Leaders Can Get Their Head Above Water When Drowning in Email and Commitments, with Steve Kahle

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Overwhelm Does Not Have to Be Normal I'm regularly challenged by the Henry Cloud quote that "You get what you tolerate." Too often we tolerate overwhe...

PPP 183 | (Video) Everything's a Project and Every Project Is a Story. What I Learned This Week

05 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share les...

PPP 182 | Project Management Expert Interview with Dr. Mike Clayton

19 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Expert Insights From a Brilliant Project Manager One of the true joys I have in my role is the opportunity to meet and interact with people from all o...

PPP 181 | (Video) On Ending Well and Self-Deception. What I Learned This Week

08 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share les...

PPP 180 | The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything Project Managers Know About Success is (Mostly) Wrong

30 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do Nice Guys Finish Last? Common wisdom tells us that we will be successful if we work hard. Be nice. Show up. It all makes sense, right? The project ...

PPP 179 | Tough Conversations, Uncomfortable Challenges, Delivering Bad News: How Successful Leaders Reach Outside Their Comfort Zones

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Just Take the Leap? It can be uncomfortable to confront a team member or a peer. We can face demanding challenges, wondering if we have what it takes,...

PPP 178 | How to Find and Work With a Mentor, with Ken Blanchard

22 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Have a Mentor--Common Wisdom Right? Talk to enough highly successful leaders and project managers and eventually you'll hear them mention the value th...

PPP 177 | Why We Can't Look Away From Our Devices, with author Adam Alter

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do You Know Where Your Phone Is? Most leaders these days know the answer to that question. Of course we know where our mobile devices are! And if we d...

PPP 176 | (Video) Why Leaders Need to Get Lost! What I Learned This Week

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week we discuss ...

PPP 175 | (Video) What Would You Advise a Friend to Do? Lessons for Project Managers to Make Better Decisions

29 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week we discuss ...

PPP 174 | 5 Strategies for Staying Productive and Happy in an Age of Shiny Objects, with author Amy Blankson

19 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Is Tech Making Life Better or Worse? Tech is ruining our life. Or at least that's what plenty of people are suggesting. There's evidence showing that ...

PPP 173 | Why Playing It Safe is Holding You Back, with Extreme You author Sarah Robb O'Hagan

09 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What Could the Extreme Version of You Do? What if you didn't play it so safe? What could a more extreme version of you acccomplish? In this episode, S...

PPP 172 | (Video) What You Need to Know About Critical Path

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What's So Critical About Critical Path? If you're preparing for taking the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you need to know how to calcu...

PPP 171 | (Video) All the Good Stuff For Leaders Is On The Other Side of Fear

25 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week we discuss ...

PPP 170 | (Video) Ideas for When You Sense Your Confidence Slipping

17 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I share an ...

PPP 169 | But What If They're Bingeing on NetFlix? How to Lead a Virtual Team, with Emily Luijbregts

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Leading a Remote Team Increasingly project managers tell me they are responsible for a team that is not completely co-located. Whether it's just a few...

PPP 168 | (Video) Put Your Phone Down and Get Back to Your Life--An Idea For Managing Your Digital Diet

04 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. This week I'm preppin...

PPP 167 | (Video) Why Project Managers Might Just Need to Call an Audible

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our series of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In American football,...

PPP 166 | What Project Managers Can Learn from Adele and Beyoncé

17 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What Makes A Hit Song? Or Idea? Why does one artist pull down a Grammy and another go without notice? Why do some products skyrocket in popularity wh...

PPP 165 | Why MacGyver Would Be a Great (and Happy) Project Manager

08 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Constraints are.... Good? Timeframes. Budgets. Staffing. Project managers constantly face confounding constraints on their journey to deliver a projec...

PPP 164 | What Leaders Need to Know About Reducing Stress, with authors of Nick Petrie and Derek Roger

04 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Work...Without Stress? There are many satisfying aspects of jobs that require us to lead teams and deliver projects. Yet they are careers that often i...

PPP 163 | (Video) What I Learned This Week About What To Do Long Before You Lose Your Job

27 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 tal...

PPP 162 | How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For, with Jonathan Raymond

21 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Our View of Authority How you and I think about authority matters. It impacts how we go about our roles as leaders. And understanding the impact we ha...

PPP 161 | What I Learned This Week About Influencing Through Questions

14 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week We continue our experiment of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In this episode I...

PPP 160 | What I Learned About Stress This Week

06 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What I Learned This Week This episode kicks off our experiment of short videos talking about an idea or observation that was learned this week. In thi...

PPP 159 | The Most Important Lesson You Learned Last Year

30 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 39:48 Download episode 159 What Did You Learn Last Year? What's something specific you've learned in the last 12 months that you eith...

PPP 158 | What You Need to Know to Manage Millennials, with author Lee Caraher

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Gotta Love Millennials When the topic of millennials comes up in my workshops, it's sure to evoke strong opinions, from older leaders who complain mil...

PPP 157 | A Revolutionary Way for Project Managers to Influence and Persuade, with Dr. Robert Cialdini

24 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Project Managers Influencing Without Authority Increasingly, project managers need to influence but do so without authority. Often, without much, if a...

PPP 156 | The Messy Project Manager, with author Tim Harford

09 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What Good is a Mess? As a profession, project managers have a tendency toward the tidy. Would you agree? I'm not talking about tidy in terms of cleanl...

PPP 155 | How to Keep Your Project Stakeholders Engaged, with Dr. Lynda Bourne

11 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

You Have More Stakeholders Than You Realize One of the primary reasons so much of our emphasis on The People and Projects Podcast is on the people sid...

PPP 154 | What Project Managers Need to Know About Office Politics, with Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker

02 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Playing the Game or Just Getting Played? In this episode, I welcome Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game or Just Getting Play...

PPP 153 | The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Project Leader, with Best-Selling Author Jim Kouzes

27 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How to Become a Better Leader In this episode, I welcome back leadership researcher and author Jim Kouzes. Jim joined us back in episode 62 to talk ab...

PPP 152 | How Scrum Helps You Do Twice the Work in Half the Time, with Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland

21 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Too Good to Be True? In this episode, I welcome Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland. He's the author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Wo...

PPP 151 | How to Deal With Bullies on Project Teams, with Paul Pelletier, LL.B., PMP

09 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tough Boss or Bully? In this episode, I welcome workplace bullying expert Paul Pelletier. He's a lawyer, a PMP, and author of Workplace Bullying: It's...

PPP 150 | Why Project Managers Need to Say Less and Ask More To Be Better Leaders, with Michael Bungay Stanier

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ask More, Talk Less In this episode, I welcome Michael Bungay Stanier, founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons. Michael is the author of a new bo...

PPP 149 | (Video) Project Management is a Performance--And Why That Idea Matters, with author Cathy Salit

26 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

All the World's a Stage Could it be that everything we do is a performance? Every interaction, at work and at home? That's the premise of Cathy Salit'...

PPP 148 | Negotiating the Conflicts That Suck the Life Out of You, with Harvard's Daniel Shapiro

19 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Negotiating Emotionally Charged Conflicts In this episode, I welcome Harvard's Daniel Shapiro to talk about his new book Negotiating the Nonnegotiable...

PPP 147 | Why Your Technical Project Management Skills Aren't Enough, with guest Dave Wakeman

11 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Beyond Gantt Charts and Critical Path In this episode, I welcome Dave Wakeman from Wakeman Consulting Group to talk about Strategic and Business Manag...

PPP 146 | How to Tell Someone They Have Body Odor (and Other Tricky Culture Situations), with Dr. Tom Verghese

02 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How Culturally Intelligent Are You? In this episode, I welcome Dr. Tom Verghese from Cultural Synergies to talk about the importance of raising our cu...

PPP 145 | Career Success Hacks for Project Managers, with Bruce Harpham

23 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Bruce Harpham In this episode, I welcome Bruce Harpham from ProjectManagementHacks.com. Bruce is a regular blogger on topics related to ca...

PPP 144 | 4 Rules to Help Project Managers Focus in a Distracted World, with Cal Newport

14 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Out of the Shallows Project managers are constantly tasked with juggling priorities and managing interruptions. We live in the shallows, so to speak, ...

PPP 143 | How to Deal With the Irrational and Impossible People on Your Projects, with Mark Goulston

31 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Talking To Crazy Spend enough time in the workplace and eventually, you have to deal with the stakeholder who drives you crazy. Whether full-time or j...

PPP 142 | How to Confidently Rise to the Most Daunting Challenges, with Amy Cuddy

17 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Super Hero Poise Project managers regularly face daunting situations. In Amy Cuddy's new book Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Cha...

PPP 141 | How Project Managers Can Make Better Decisions: Year-End Episode

22 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Looking Back In this video episode, I share a recent Google Hangout on Air that was held with listeners of The People and Projects Podcast. I review a...

PPP 140 | Tom Rath Goes to the Movies (and Why You Should Too!)

21 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

  Total Duration 27:31 Download episode 140 Business Book at the Movies You may recall our previous discussions with Tom Rath about his book Eat Mo...

PPP 139 | The Real Reason Why Project Managers and Their Teams Win, with author Fred Kiel

14 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Do The Good Guys Win? There's something inside us that wants to believe that the good guys win in the end, right? We want to believe that if you treat...

PPP 138 | Eating Frogs and Throwing Skunks on the Table: The People Side of Project Management

30 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

{youtube}b-9y2TQ8x7o{/youtube} Total Duration 56:19 Download episode 138 The People Side of Project Management In this video episode, I share a disc...

PPP 137 | How Project Managers Can Invest Their Time Like Money, with Elizabeth Grace Saunders

17 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Aspire to be Time Wealthy Can you relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed, with more commitments at work and home than you have time to handle? Man...

PPP 136 | What Science Says About the Happy Project Manager, with Michelle Gielen

01 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Happy Project Manager Most people who know me would say I'm generally a happy guy--rather optimistic by nature. I've always been a bit skeptical a...

PPP 135 | Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, with Gretchen Rubin

27 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Habits for Project Managers Could it be that the habits you develop today determine the life you live tomorrow? As project managers, we make endless c...

PPP 134 | How Project Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning, with author Scott Mautz

13 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Make it Matter In this episode, we welcome Scott Mautz to discuss his new book Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning. To learn...

PPP 133 | The Most Important Four Seconds for Project Managers, with author Peter Bregman

27 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A Deep Breath In this episode, we welcome back Peter Bregman to discuss his new book Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Ha...

PPP 132 | Energizing the Burned Out Project Manager, with author Tom Rath

04 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 35:56 Download episode 132 Far From Fully Charged Would you say you typically roll out of bed, refreshed, well rested, ready to attac...

PPP 131 | Honoring a Project Management Legacy, with Max Wideman

16 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A Lifetime of Commitment to Project Management In this episode, we speak with Max Wideman, one of the original authors of the Project Management Body ...

PPP 130 | Why Leadership Training Isn't Preparing You to Lead (and What To Do About It), with author Herminia Ibarra

24 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Act First, Not Think First In this episode we speak with Herminia Ibarra, author of Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader. Herminia chairs a departm...

PPP 129 | Less Panic and More Productivity for Project Managers, with author Kory Kogon

04 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Urgent and the Important In this episode, we speak with Kory Kogon from the FranklinCovey organization. Kory recently published The 5 Choices: Th...

PPP 128 | How Project Managers Become Project Leaders, with author Susanne Madsen

07 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Not Just Managing But Leading I'm happy to welcome Susanne Madsen to the podcast. Susanne recently published The Power of Project Leadership: 7 Keys ...

PPP 127 | How to Stop Talking About Vision and Actually Create One, with author Rob-Jan de Jong

18 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Need Vision? Got Vision? I'm excited to introduce you to Rob-Jan de Jong, author of Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead.  Too often we on...

PPP 126 | The Most Important Lesson You Learned Last Year

30 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 31:53 Download episode 126 What Did You Learn Last Year? What's something specific you've learned in the last 12 months that you eith...

PPP 125 | Why Project Managers Who Learn Faster Beat Those Who Know More, with guest Liz Wiseman

19 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Expert Judgment In the Project Management Body of Knowledge--the PMBOK® Guide--there's a recurring tool and technique entitled Expert Judgment. How c...

PPP 124 | How Adam Smith Can Make You a Better Project Manager, with guest Russ Roberts

16 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Smith, Project Manager If you studied economics at some point you most likely learned about Adam Smith. He's often revered as the Father of Moder...

PPP 123 | How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done, with Procrastination Expert Piers Steel

22 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Stop Procrastinating! I have so looked forward to sharing this episode with you! It's just that.... I kept finding other things to do! But the wait is...

PPP 122 | Smart Ways to Accelerate Your Success as a Project Manager, with author Shane Snow

19 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Smartcuts, Not Shortcuts We go to 'work', not 'play'. Success typically takes work, not sitting back and visualizing wonderful things. But what if the...

PPP 121 | We're Not Family. But Free Agency Doesn't Work. How to Have Career Discussions with Your Team, with Ben Casnocha

10 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

We are Family? Most companies no longer feel like 'family'. But the 'free agent' approach has limitations as well. My guest today is Ben Casnocha. He ...

PPP 120 | Mentoring for Project Managers, with Mark Goulston

21 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 34:17 Download episode 120 Who is an example of someone that has significantly impacted who you are today? Whether they were a formal...

PPP 119 | How to Be a More Influential Project Manager, with Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP, PMI-RMP, and PMI Fellow

20 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Do You Feel Influential? Project managers are influencers, though we often think of other sides of the business as the ones who influence the most: se...

PPP 118 | The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights, With Dr. Gary Klein

07 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing What Others Don't How is it that we can so easily not see things? When making decisions, we can be blind to better options. When planning a pro...

PPP 117 | People and Projects Podcast Webinar Replay: Coach Cast and Jim Johnson Interview

23 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 53:02 Download episode 117 On a regular basis, we invite listeners of The People and Projects Podcast to gather for a follow-up webina...

PPP 116 | Why Projects Fail (and How We Can Fix That), with Jim Johnson from The Standish Group

10 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 27:05 Download episode 116 Never Had a Failed Project? Have you ever had a project that failed? Be careful--this is a truth test! If ...

PPP 115 | Hire the Younger or Older Project Manager? Does Age Matter?

27 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 7:10 Download episode 115 Introducing Our Coach Cast Episodes With this episode we introduce a new type of episode that we're calling...

PPP 114 | People and Projects Podcast Webinar Replay: Power Cues and Invisibles

23 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On a regular basis, we invite listeners of The People and Projects Podcast to gather for a follow-up webinar. These webinars allow us to go into more ...

PPP 113 | The Invisible Project Manager (Who Loves Their Job), with author David Zweig

12 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The 'Me Monster' We live in an age of relentless self-promotion. Some people in the workplace remind me of comedian Brian Regan's sketch entitled I Wa...

PPP 112 | How to Read Your Stakeholder's Mind, with Dr. Nick Morgan

04 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

What They're Really Thinking In this episode, Dr. Nick Morgan shares how we often get in the way of our own communication. There are two conversations...

PPP 111 | When Consultants are the Problem, Not the Solution

02 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Pulling Back the Curtain on Management Consultants Our guest in this episode is Karen Phelan, author of an entertaining book entitled I'm Sorry I Bro...

PPP 110 | How to Get Your Ideas to Catch On, with author Jonah Berger

24 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Total Duration 34:23 Download episode 110 Why Do We Share What We Share? We are constantly sharing. It could be social media status update. An uploa...

PPP 109 | The Funny Thing About Project Management

02 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Laugh While Learning I love to laugh. Whether it's a podcast episode, a keynote presentation, or an e-learning workshop, I like to keep it light-heart...

PPP 108 | How Project Managers Can Deal With Stupid Feedback

04 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

"Feedback is a Gift?" Our guest for this episode is Doug Stone. Doug and his co-author Sheila Heen teach negotiation and conflict negotiation at Harva...