We've all faced a lot of uncertainty and change lately. But have you taken the time to think about what that means for your clients and customers? In this episode, I offer a perspective about what's going on inside your CLIENT's mind right now and how you can help and better serve them as a Project Leader.
In the previous episode, I spoke about collecting feedback from your teams. This act of collecting feedback and then implementing changes takes courage! In this episode, I dive deeper into how you can build your courage muscle so that it becomes a reflex when you need it the most on your projects.
Have you ever worked for an organization that only did your performance reviews on an annual basis? Was it difficult to even book time in your supervisor's schedule to get it done? Receiving consistent feedback from your team about how you are performing as a Project Leader is critical to your team's success. In this episode, I share a great technique to help you collect regular feedback from your team.
Government regulations and client standards are constantly changing and can have a significant impact on our projects. In this Episode, I share 4 best practices on how you can make managing the updates to standards and regulations a bit easier.
Can you believe it? This is the 50th episode! In this special milestone episode, I share about my podcast journey so far.
Do you have any stories that come to mind about a time you received disappointing customer service and how that experience changed how you approach your projects? In this episode, I share what my experience with my telecom service provider taught me about how I approach my client relationships on my projects.
Chances are if you are already in a leadership role, you didn't start there. You've likely held different roles along the way and worked your way up the career ladder. In this episode, I share a specific leadership technique that's about meeting the people you lead at their current step and being their guide along the way.
In this episode, I define what is a Project Superpower and why it's important that you know yours!
In a previous episode, I shared that I started working with a new coach awhile back. Since then, I've had a few mental roadblocks that have come up. In this episode, I share some of my thoughts and mental barriers that came up when I started working with my new trusted advisor and how I overcame them.
Being a Project Leader is all about continually improving... which means that sometimes we need to do things outside of our comfort zone! In this episode, I talk about your comfort zone in the context of your strategic projects. I also explore where Project Leaders often get stuck when they hit that comfort zone barrier.
I am often asked by other Project Leaders: how do you balance strategic projects with competing priorities and deadlines? In this episode, I share a quick tip on how you can achieve better balance and ensure your strategic projects and priorities are all moving forward.
Documenting our project successes should be that joyful moment at the end of a project that we look forward to! But it can be easy to fall into the trap of quickly moving on to the next project without taking the necessary time to document our successes. In this episode, I share a quick tip on how to quickly and easily collect testimonials and feedback.
Chances are you have a few high performers on your teams! In this episode, I give some insights into how you can support these high performers to achieve their ambitious projects and career goals.
In this episode, I explore career planning from two perspectives: your responsibilities as an individual for your own career and our Project Leader responsibilities to help our teams do their career planning.
Happy New Year to my listeners! In this new year's episode, I discuss a two-step process that I like to follow to set myself up for success in the coming year both from a career and project delivery perspective.
The days or weeks leading up to the holiday season are always stressful for us and our teams. There are a ton of deadlines and things we want to accomplish before the holiday break. In this episode, I discuss 3 things you can do before the holidays to set your projects up for success in the New Year.
If you've been listening to my podcast for awhile, or seen my content, you've probably noticed that I often draw parallels between Sales and Project Management. There are specific reasons why I do this that I explain in this episode. I also leave you with a simple, yet powerful question you can ask your stakeholders to get them on your side.
In this episode, I share two stories about why it's critically important to your success that you MASTER the skill of identifying true priorities. Not only is this important to your project success but also to your career success and wellbeing.
Chances are if your customer or client has made a big investment to work with you on their project, they are feeling a bit nervous. In this episode, I unpack the three reasons why people purchase and how you can use that information to become a better guide for your customers and clients throughout project execution to put their minds at ease and alleviate those nervous butterflies.
As we move through the Execute Phase of our projects, sometimes our teams can lose sight of the big picture mission. In this episode, I share three ideas on how you can convey and remind your team about the big picture mission and vision of your project.