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The Secrets to Conducting an Effective Project Kickoff Meeting

by Dana Brownlee

December 18, 2019 | 59:32 | Views: 3,883 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.70 / 5

The truth is that a project kickoff meeting can make or break a project. Done well, the kickoff meeting can set the project on a path for success, but a nightmare kickoff meeting can wreak havoc for months to come. These are a few simple secrets that can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of your next project kickoff meeting. If you're already familiar with kickoff meetings, no worries. This presentation isn't a soup to nuts overview of how to run a kickoff meeting. Instead, we'll identify several specific techniques that you can throw into your bag of tricks to avoid common pitfalls and move your kickoff meetings from good to great!

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All Things Project Management: Navigating PMI’s Knowledge Resources

by Mark Krob, Shari Rathet, Crystal Sloat, Mary Quill

November 19, 2019 | 58:21 | Views: 821 | PDUs: | Rating: 4.43 / 5

In your day-to-day practice of project management, questions often arise and you need to find the answers. PMI has been publishing articles to help you find solutions since the profession was founded; there are over 9000 articles in the Learning Library alone. Let us help you understand the different types of content available and how to access them, how we have recently improved the PMI.org search function and how to make your own contribution to this valuable collection and share your expertise with other practitioners.

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Project Management with The Living Organization®

by Vitaly Geyman

October 02, 2019 | 57:02 | Views: 3,361 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.44 / 5

At their best, Project Managers are great leaders. A leader’s prime responsibility is to produce positive results. In developing The Living Organization ® operating system, we have reverse engineered how the best leaders create lasting impact with less effort than most others. In this presentation, we reveal the secret source of such leaders and provide practical examples of how project managers can integrate it into their daily practice.

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The Secret Leadership Mindset That Improves Project Delivery

by Eric Wright

June 20, 2019 | 59:58 | Views: 6,173 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.64 / 5

The temporary, unique nature of the project management environment increases the challenges of management and its leadership function because the project manager typically has little to no authority or asset ownership. This dynamic places a premium on influence-based leadership. So how does a project manager develop an influence-based leadership style? By examining an environment extremely similar to the project management environment - the military environment!

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How to be a Chameleon in Your Project: Changing Your Management Style to Lead a Successful Project

by Emily Luijbregts

May 29, 2019 | 60:21 | Views: 5,937 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.55 / 5

The world is becoming a difficult place to work as a Project Manager. We're working globally, across time zones and cultures, with new technology, and industries and projects are losing money at a staggering rate. We need to adapt.

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The 4-Hour (Project) Workweek

by Sean Hull 

May 28, 2019 | 57:35 | Views: 7,236 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 3.87 / 5

Graf von Moltke was a Prussian Field Marshal who developed a rather genius, and simple, method to stack up his generals based on intelligence and initiative (or lack thereof.) The smart & lazy rose to the top because they made the right thing happen, at the right time and found the easiest way to do so. Marshal your projects (pun intended) and take control of your life!

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Phileas Fogg: The Around the World Project Manager

by Chris Greco

May 22, 2019 | 61:03 | Views: 5,851 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.52 / 5

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in Jules Verne's novel, "Around the World in 80 Days," and proves that the project management process works in a voyage to beat all other voyages! Listen to how Phileas used the project management processes that we use every day to navigate various (and dangerous) risks in order to get what he thought would be the greatest reward - a successful trip around the world.

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The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Techniques for Bringing the Best Out in Virtually Any Senior Leader

by Dana Brownlee

April 17, 2019 | 60:42 | Views: 6,857 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.64 / 5

While many professionals are learning the power of managing up, some mistakenly think it's exclusively focused on managing difficult senior leaders...it's not! Whether your boss is a true gift, a nightmare or somewhere in between, you should be managing up! Managing up can be a critical tool for helping a great boss be even better or preventing potential problems with those more difficult senior leaders personalities as well. This presentation explores how managing up techniques can be used proactively to help you anticipate and navigate workplace barriers, communicate more effectively with senior leaders, deliver difficult messages to hierarchy, and enhance your credibility in the workplace.

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PMI-PBA: From “What It Is?” To “I Did It!”

by Andrea Brockmeier

March 28, 2019 | 61:16 | Views: 5,527 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.53 / 5

Find out about PMI’s fastest-growing certification: Professional in Business Analysis, PMI-PBA®. Explore the business drivers that are making this certification so valuable to both organizations and the individuals who earn it. Also learn what the requirements are for PMI-PBA certification and tips for applying past experience to count towards the required hours needed. Project professionals who already have the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification will get perspectives on their project experience to help them capitalize on their PM-BA hybrid role. Attendees will come away with a clear idea of what the exam covers and tips for preparing for and passing the exam. The key resources, including the Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide, and the PMI Guide to Business Analysis, will be discussed to help attendees understand what will be involved in their PMI-PBA journey. The session will include open Q and A from session participants with answers provided by the PBA-certified presenter.

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Project Manager or Scrum Master? Is there a future for both roles?

by Stelian Roman

February 14, 2019 | 48:58 | Views: 10,388 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.30 / 5

For the past 15 years, the Scrum Master and Project Manager roles have coexisted well, especially in IT projects. From the very technical role that was part of the Software Development Team, the Scrum Master evolved into a new organizational role sometimes with a well-defined job description and with responsibilities that transcended the technical background from which it originated. Although the role was defined in the Scrum framework, the Scrum Master role is now present in other frameworks

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