The Lazy Project Manager

Peter Taylor live as The Lazy Project Manager - talking efficiency and effectiveness at a personal level

In which The Lazy Project Manager plans some celebrations for 10 years of productive laziness and talks 'Project Management for non-Project Managers', along with considering how to deal with the world of the 'Accidental Project Sponsor'

A great interview with Marc Hogan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-4a859a1/ - International Corporate Speaker | The Daily Idea : 365 Day Video Challenge | Specialist in : Communication | Change | Resilience | Influence & inspiring your people - Funny Business

It is 10 years since Peter Taylor, aka The Lazy Project Manager, started public speaking and he celebrates with an interview with Chris Addams of Magic Milestones who is, it has to be said, a bit of a fan of the book

In which Peter Taylor runs a competition to find a new and exciting speaker for future project events Talks about his book 'The Presentation on Presentations: The Lazy way to better public speaking' Talks about his Presentation Skills workshop And mentions his future travel to Rio and Warsaw

An interview with Cristian Soto - Passionate "questionologist"​, speaker, project management geek, Edutech lover and... an avid discomfort zone seeker Especialization: *Critical Points *Experiential Learning *Business Simulation games *Project Management

A blog article - The Meaningless Blog - a summary of 2018 and a look ahead to 2019 with The Lay Project Manager aka Peter Taylor

The Lazy Project Manager has a new sponsor - hear an interview with Tim Stumbles, CEO, Office Timeline and get your free trial licence of Office Timeline at https://www.officetimeline.com/peter Also Peter has a new book out - The Presentation on Presentations - a book about the art of giving good presentations

Two authors join Peter Taylor on this months podcast - Christopher Cook, new book The Entrepreneurial Project Manager (Best Practices and Advances in Program Management) and Patrick Gleeson with Working with Coders: A Guide to Software Development for the Perplexed Non-Techie

Two interviews and two books = 2+2 Cedric Walburger and Parikshit Basrur - interviewed and interesting How to get Fired at the C-Level (a gift for your executives) and The PM Who Smiled (a gift for your PM colleagues and maybe yourself)

A promotion of Synergy 2017 from PMI UK - an experience in dance in Romania - and an interview with someone who is Agile and loves PMOs

Hearing from Romania and Spain and the USA - speaking around the world - as well as hearing from Ed Hoffman, NASA's Chief Knowledge Officer

Critical to any project’s success is having a good project manager. We all know that, but then it is also pretty important to have a good project sponsor: but like the saying goes ‘you can pick your friends but you can’t pick you relatives’. The same might be said of project sponsors. It has been my experience that the skill profile of project managers continues to grow, and more and more organisations are investing in project managers in a disciplined and mature manner. But the same cannot always be said of project sponsors; many wrongly believe that project sponsor is just a figurehead – never called to actual duty – and for these reasons I concluded some time ago that we are in the age of the ‘accidental project sponsor’.

Life is full of changes and now, Peter Taylor is on the hunt for the next opportunity (or opportunities) as he leaves Kronos And an interview with Bobby Kerr, Newstalk 106 'Down to Business' - all about 'How to get Fired at the C Level and The Lazy Project Manager (Oh, and a bit about Brexit)

An interview with Colin D Ellis on his new book THE PROJECT ROTS FROM THE HEAD - How Senior Managers Can Stop Projects From Failing – Forever https://www.colindellis.com/ And a chat with Vince Hines of Wellingtone and Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton of APM PMOSIG fame on a newPMO award and a new PMO conference http://www.wellingtone.co.uk/

The Lazy Project Manager loves seeing his books appear on book lists, his blog on blog lists, and his podcast anywhere at all But there are many, many more voices in project management - so why not check out a few with the help of Peter Taylor www.thelazyprojectmanager.com

More excitement over the new book - How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all www.thelazyprojectmanager.com and http://tailwindps.com/how-to-get-fired-at-the-c-level/ And an interview with Ben Howell, PMI President Sydney Chapter, about the upcoming all-Australia Conference Held at Sheraton on the Park in Sydney 28 – 30 May More information: http://pmiaustraliaconference.org.au/ #PMIAC17

Peter Taylor, with the aid of Alex Marson and Katherine Ritson of Tailwind PS, announces the release of his new book - How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mis-managing Change is the Biggest Risk of All Getting fired at the C-level is easy – and this book will tell you exactly how to go about it with ruthless efficiency. But perhaps not getting fired is your preferred outcome and, if that is the case, then you might have a challenge or two in the arena of strategy execution since the number one reason CEOs get fired is mismanaging change! Leading executives, it seems, do too little about strategy implementation, do not apply the appropriate level of attention to such critical organisational change, and often relegate sponsorship and leadership to lower management, whilst the c-suite get on with their ‘day jobs’. ‘How to get fired at the C-level’ will explore this challenge, and since all challenges are really opportunities, will show ways to not only significantly reduce change failures but also how to dramatically raise the capability, speed, and success rates of delivering strategic change in your organisation. It also offers a simple means to evaluate executive engagement, and to offer a series of very practical steps to let you be the person who puts the ‘C’ for change into the ‘C’ level. Donnie MacNicol talks 'project leadership - Project Leadership Masterclass Open for Booking http://www.pmtoday.co.uk/news/project-leadership-masterclass-open-for-booking/

A farewell message to Black Sabbath with some thoughts on project management legacy along with a request for some help

My new book will be released on 13th March 2017 and it is called ‘How to get fired at the C-level’ with the sub-title of ‘Why Mismanaging Change is the Biggest Risk of All’. The idea of the book is that it offers a simple means to evaluate executive engagement in strategic change, and to offer a series of very practical steps to let the person (or people) who puts the ‘C’ for change into the C-level. Of course, it is all about projects but it is targeting at the highest level in organisations. Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is to engage at least 10 organisations at this C-level and have robust conversations with them about such matters as professional project sponsorship, investment in project management and true portfolio management, amongst other matters. I will though, require your help to do this. The book will be out, as I said, in March, there is a presentation developed and there are two short sharp (1-2 hours) workshop developed to engage and drive the C-level to clear understanding of challenges in this area and offer simple practical advice for improvement. A sort of ‘How not to get fired at the C-level’ plan of action if you like. The help I need from you, if you feel this is a challenge in your own organisation, is to get me an invitation to talk to your executives, to help them see the reality, and to help them make the necessary changes to become truly successful at strategic change delivery. Thank you in helping me with my New Year’s Resolution. www.thelazyprojectmanager.com