Transformation & Leadership - Insider Tips

This is an active post as of Feb. 20, 2022. Within PMI’s online community, ProjectManagement.com, a group of volunteers organizes monthly webinars on the topic of Change Management. To complement this webinar series, they also maintain a blog, Transformation & Leadership – Insider Tips, featuring lessons learned and diverse perspectives from experienced professionals. This team is currently looking for someone to assist with their endeavors to advance conversations around change management and provide tips and tools to the online community (in a volunteer capacity).

 The volunteer blog & webinar coordinator is responsible for sourcing, working with, and facilitating presenters through:

 1) the webinar development process; and

2) the blogging process for the Transformation & Leadership blog 

 He/she will host practice sessions for presenters and help facilitate live webinars for the team in the area of Change Management. The volunteer will also work with presenters to contribute change management content to the blog. The volunteer should be an active team member who is enthusiastic about providing great webinars and blog posts to the community on ProjectManagement.com.

 This volunteer will:

 • Meet with team on a regular basis to discuss plans for webinar & blog program

• Assist in planning webinars and provide updates as necessary

• Coordinate scheduling of webinars and complete PMI presenter forms for each webinar

• Coordinate and facilitate presenter practice sessions

• Host live webinar sessions (about one webinar per month)

• Coordinate scheduling of blog posts for the Transformation & Leadership blog, and review blog content to ensure compliance with User Guidelines

 The estimated time commitment is 4-5 hours per month with weekly team meetings - all virtual. The volunteer should have strong project, program, and/or portfolio management skills and understand and commit to PMI’s objectives and goals around increasing member value and knowledge delivery. PMI membership is required for this role. This is a team of volunteers, so flexibility is needed, and experience with Webex is strongly encouraged. PDUs for Giving Back can be claimed in accordance with the policies outlined in your credential's handbook.

 If you are interesting in volunteering, please contact Laura Schofield via the Inbox on ProjectManagement.com with:

-your statement of interest

-an explanation of any experience that you have facilitating webinars

by 15 March 2022. An interview with shortlisted candidates and the volunteer team will be conducted.

Within PMI’s online community, ProjectManagement.com, a group of volunteers organizes monthly webinars on the topic of Change Management. To complement this webinar series, they also maintain a blog, Transformation & Leadership – Insider Tips, featuring lessons learned and diverse perspectives from experienced professionals. This team is currently looking for someone to assist with their endeavors to advance conversations around change management and provide tips and tools to the online community (in a volunteer capacity).

 The volunteer blog & webinar coordinator is responsible for sourcing, working with, and facilitating presenters through:

 1) the webinar development process; and

2) the blogging process for the Transformation & Leadership blog 

 He/she will host practice sessions for presenters and help facilitate live webinars for the team in the area of Change Management. The volunteer will also work with presenters to contribute change management content to the blog. The volunteer should be an active team member who is enthusiastic about providing great webinars and blog posts to the community on ProjectManagement.com.

 This volunteer will:

 • Meet with team on a regular basis to discuss plans for webinar & blog program

• Assist in planning webinars and provide updates as necessary

• Coordinate scheduling of webinars and complete PMI presenter forms for each webinar

• Coordinate and facilitate presenter practice sessions

• Host live webinar sessions (about one webinar per month)

• Coordinate scheduling of blog posts for the Transformation & Leadership blog, and review blog content to ensure compliance with User Guidelines

 The estimated time commitment is 4-5 hours per month with weekly team meetings - all virtual. The volunteer should have strong project, program, and/or portfolio management skills and understand and commit to PMI’s objectives and goals around increasing member value and knowledge delivery. PMI membership is required for this role. This is a team of volunteers, so flexibility is needed, and experience with Webex is strongly encouraged. PDUs for Giving Back can be claimed in accordance with the policies outlined in your credential's handbook.

 If you are interesting in volunteering, please contact Laura Schofield via the Inbox on ProjectManagement.com with:

-your statement of interest

-an explanation of any experience that you have facilitating webinars

by 30 June 2021. An interview with shortlisted candidates and the volunteer team will be conducted.

This blog post has been created by: Ed Pelic, Nic Jain, Joe Colon, Cady Johnson, Smita Shetty, Heather Benson, Cathy Fisher, Simon Lato, Babette Ten Haken, Craig Karagitz

The group of contributors is made of practicing project managers to help build their leadership skills, learning from the best minds of all times. Please note we are not endorsing any specific book or piece of content. The material is used only as a framework for the members to transform how they perform as leaders through principles discovered and applied to specific situations that Project Managers encounter.

The group recently completed reading Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Phillps.  Key learnings from a Project Management perspective have been summarized in this post. The extraordinary challenges Lincoln faced as President while the United States was engaged in civil war and his leadership actions in response are arranged in the theme categories (sections) of People, Character, Endeavor, and Communication.  Some elements of Lincoln’s life prior to his Presidency were reviewed as well. 

We learned how Lincoln’s leadership actions demonstrated the golden principles. We explored the leadership principles practiced by Lincoln and reflected on ways to incorporate them into daily practices and interactions. In this way, leadership situations Lincoln experienced can be leveraged to develop and enhance individual leadership skills in a transformational way.

Key Leadership Learnings

•  Be an effective communicator.  Use several mechanisms to achieve this.

Know your audience - frame your message to suit your audience.  Use clear and simple language.  Don’t use terms or abbreviations unknown to your audience.

One on one conversation - speaking one on one is a good technique to win over a friend or rival to adopt your position.

Use anecdotes - be a good story teller to illustrate your point of view.  People will understand the message in the story and remember it going forward.

Humor - use of humor is effective in disarming people and putting people at ease.

Lincoln worked diligently on the Gettysburg address.  His few minute speech is considered one of the best speeches of all time.  The speaker before Lincoln spoke for 2 hours, yet nobody remembers who the speaker was or his speech.

•  People follow character

Character is very important for an effective leader - people will choose to follow a leader who establishes trust through his/her actions and character.

“Have malice toward none and charity for all”

Failure builds character - Do not let failures diminish your drive.  Learn from the experience as a foundation to try again with greater knowledge.

• Be engaging with people.

Management by walking around - meet your team members on their own turf, get out into the field.

Delegate effectively - provide opportunities for other. After communicating expectations, do not hesitate to take action if people are not performing.

Believe in yourself - know yourself and promote your values.  Remain determined.

This video addresses additional scenarios discussed by participants, including how they would apply these learnings to real-world scenarios faced by Project Managers.

Video & Content by Amrapali Amrapali, Abelio Neto, Nic Jain

Want to deliver a webinar? Here is a simple article to read before you jump into your
preparations.
We are the change management community, organising a webinar every month.
The three simple steps to follow for getting into having delivering your own webinar is as follows:
Step 1) Reach out to us. DM @Nic Jain, @Abelio Neto, @Amrapali and @Laura Schofield with a
proposed topic.
Step 2) After we decide on the date, get ready to provide us following at least 30-45 days before
the scheduled date
Short Biography
Title and Abstract of the Webinar.
Step 3) We send you an agreement and you sign and send it back to us.
Step 4) We perform a practice session 2 days prior to the scheduled date, so be ready to wear
your practice shoes.
For a more detailed view on the process, please watch the video attached. Our volunteer are
sharing knowledge through a zoom call.

Video and content created by Luisa Cristini, Amrapali Amrapali, Nic Jain

Objective of this post is to explain to all stakeholders [e.g., Community Members, Volunteers, Bloggers, New potential bloggers, inquisitive readers too ] how the blogging process works for Change Management / Transformation Community.

Thanks to great efforts from our community, contributors, PMI staff & volunteers we have this blog up and running on top of mostly viewed pages on ProjectManagement.com. We are here with a model blogging procedure, neatly explained with the help of an interactive video and a document for records.

Video here was a live training done for Knowledge transfer amongst volunteers [We didn’t ‘polish’ it up and left it ‘raw’ :-) . So you know the inside story]

We encourage our readers to get in touch with us if they have some interesting stories to contribute.

Feel free to comment and we will respond back or edit the post to clarify.

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