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Steadfast Success, Resilience in Project Leadership: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches – On Being Resilient (S4E075)
Hosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome discuss the importance of resilience in project management, particularly in the face of job loss, reorganizations, and unexpected challenges like COVID-19. Through personal anecdotes and real-life examples, they explore strategies for maintaining team morale, effective communication, and the importance of building strong professional networks. The episode highlights how transparency, collaboration, and preparation can help project managers and their teams successfully navigate uncertain times.
Main Take-Aways
Stories are powerful teachers. Today’s story lessons help your understanding of the importance of developing a strong sense of resilience in planning for and dealing with inevitable setbacks that occur on your projects:
- being resilient in the face of job loss
- building and tapping into a network of professionals to recover from setbacks
- collaborating as a team to look out for each other
- having the courage stand up against prevailing beliefs when you have contrary information
- using challenging situations to develop opportunities to succeed
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches – On Being Resilient
01:03 Tim leads off with an experience of resilience in the face of job loss. He learned from observing how his boss handled the situation by creating a cohesive team that had each other’s backs.
05:52 Merv recounts a time when a contract that he had won had its funding pulled, and how he used his extensive network to find new work. The resilience came in his ability to bounce back from a setback by first having spent the time to develop an extensive network, and secondly tapping into that network.
08:42 Tim had an experience where the collaborative aspect of his team came together in resilient fashion to ensure that a supervisor was honored for his longstanding contribution.
10:51 Merv remembers a tense situation in which he was the lone voice standing up to a prevailing belief that the system they were about to implement was ready to be implemented. At risk to job and reputation, he provided data that indicated implementation should be delayed.
15:33 Tim provides a lesson in resilience from the time of COVID-19 lockdowns, where he was able to use the challenges of the times to scale his training business.
18:29 Merv adds his own COVID-19 timeframe story about how his former project was able to quickly pivot from everyone working at the project site to working remotely, with little loss in productivity.
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By Merv Jersak & Tim JeromeHosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome discuss the importance of resilience in project management, particularly in the face of job loss, reorganizations, and unexpected challenges like COVID-19. Through personal anecdotes and real-life examples, they explore strategies for maintaining team morale, effective communication, and the importance of building strong professional networks. The episode highlights how transparency, collaboration, and preparation can help project managers and their teams successfully navigate uncertain times.
Main Take-Aways
Stories are powerful teachers. Today’s story lessons help your understanding of the importance of developing a strong sense of resilience in planning for and dealing with inevitable setbacks that occur on your projects:
- being resilient in the face of job loss
- building and tapping into a network of professionals to recover from setbacks
- collaborating as a team to look out for each other
- having the courage stand up against prevailing beliefs when you have contrary information
- using challenging situations to develop opportunities to succeed
Show Notes
Today’s Project Managers Coffee Chat: Leadership Lessons from the Trenches – On Being Resilient
01:03 Tim leads off with an experience of resilience in the face of job loss. He learned from observing how his boss handled the situation by creating a cohesive team that had each other’s backs.
05:52 Merv recounts a time when a contract that he had won had its funding pulled, and how he used his extensive network to find new work. The resilience came in his ability to bounce back from a setback by first having spent the time to develop an extensive network, and secondly tapping into that network.
08:42 Tim had an experience where the collaborative aspect of his team came together in resilient fashion to ensure that a supervisor was honored for his longstanding contribution.
10:51 Merv remembers a tense situation in which he was the lone voice standing up to a prevailing belief that the system they were about to implement was ready to be implemented. At risk to job and reputation, he provided data that indicated implementation should be delayed.
15:33 Tim provides a lesson in resilience from the time of COVID-19 lockdowns, where he was able to use the challenges of the times to scale his training business.
18:29 Merv adds his own COVID-19 timeframe story about how his former project was able to quickly pivot from everyone working at the project site to working remotely, with little loss in productivity.