069 - Project Management in an Alien Environment

06/22/21 • 40 min

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You’re a PM and you have landed on a strange new world where you don’t know the industry, the organization the people or the subject matter. How do you get oriented enough to intelligently deliver a project? How do you succeed in this alien environment?

In this episode, Kate and Kim talk about how to approach getting up to speed when you are faced with leading a project in a new department, new company, new domain or totally new industry where you don’t know the subject matter.

In summary:

Get a head start where you can
Stand on what you know
Build trust then ask for help
Fake it ‘til you make it

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In summary:

Get a head start where you can
Stand on what you know
Build trust then ask for help
Fake it ‘til you make it

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068 - Interviewing PM’s: Inside the Mind of a Hiring Manager with Matt Henderson

Whether you are hiring project managers or hope to get hired, do you know what hiring managers should be looking for? What’s going on in a hiring managers mind when they look at your resume and when they interview you?

In this episode we are joined by Matt Henderson - a long time PMO manager who has hired hundreds of project managers. In fact, at one point he managed both Kate and Kim. How on earth did he manage two such unruly PMs?! We’ll maybe cover that in another episode. In this episode, Matt shares tips on interviewing and selecting PM’s for hire. This will be useful to you whether you are a hiring manager yourself, or being interviewed yourself.

Our amazing guest, Matt Henderson

Matt Henderson is a Senior Executive with over 25 year of experience in Project Management. He has worked globally within Startup and Fortune-500 Services organizations, helping clients achieve business-critical outcomes from their Projects. In these roles, Matt has built and managed several PMO’s and has hired 100’s of PM’s.

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070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey

Project Managers are agents of change. Whether your project changes organizations, technologies, infrastructure or processes, the success of your project likely depends on *people* actually using your deliverables. But how much of your project is really focused on those people and helping them understand and make those changes?

Spoiler: Kate *totally* nerds out on this one :-) After we recorded this, Kate and Kim quoted Tim to just about everyone they met. Mic drops!

In this podcast we are joined by one of the most influential thought-leaders in Change Management today, Tim Creasey, the CIO of Prosci. Tim will take us through the 5 tenets of change management, and their corresponding plain language questions:

We change for a reason
- Plain language question: Why are we changing?
- Who has to do their job differently, and how?
Organizational change requires individual change
- How much of our outcomes depend on adoption and usage?
Organizational outcomes are the collective result of individual change
- What will we do to support adoption and usage?
Change Management is an enabling framework for managing the people side of change
- How will driving adoption and usage improve results?
We apply change management to realize the benefits and desired outcomes of change

About our amazing guest, Tim Creasey

An author, researcher, change expert and human, Tim focuses on the people side of change with process, wit and vigor. Tim’s work forms the foundation of the world’s largest body of knowledge on change management. His role as Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci gives him unparalleled insight into change management challenges, trends and futures. Having spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe, Tim is authentic, knowledgeable and unassumingly funny. He enables audiences with valuable data and actionable information.

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