The Sunday Lunch Project Manager

In this episode, I have the first part of my chat with Andy Kaufman, The People and Projects Guy Andy Kaufman,PMP is an international speaker, author, & executive coach, and President of the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc. 

Andy works with organizations around the world, helping them improve their ability to deliver projects & lead teams.   Andy’s keynotes, workshops, and executive coaching services have reached tens of thousands of people from hundreds of companies over the years, helping them deliver their projects, become more confident leaders, take focused action, and deliver results. He brings a rich background of over 25 years of experience in executive management, technology, team leadership, project management, consulting, & coaching.   

Andy is a certified trainer and author of "Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life", "Shining the Light on The Secret", and an e-book entitled "How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter", all published by Zurich Press. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®).   

Andy is the host of "The People and Projects Podcast" (http://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com or any podcast app) which provides interviews and insights to help listeners lead people and deliver projects. The podcast focuses on the intersection of People and Projects--where work gets done in the real world.

In this episode I have part two of my chat with Dr Tammy Watchorn, The Change Ninja

Tammy is just about to release her book The Change Ninja Handbook An Interactive Adventure for Leading Change, she has a background in project and programme management, organisational change and innovation alongside many years of mentoring, designing and facilitating workshops, events and training using face-to-face and virtual solutions.

Tammy is a Director at AnSáS which provides facilitation, training, mentoring and coaching for learning and insights for sustainable change, innovation and transformation. A director at Pentacle Scotland, part of Pentacle the Virtual Business School, a revolutionary business school, providing executive and management education to the world's most innovative organisations where they provoke, inspire, educate, enable, coach, and facilitate. Associate at Sparking Performance co-creating and delivering Applied Neuroscience for Delivering Change.

Following a career in scientific research, Tammy moved to working in the public sector and volunteering for the third sector on change, innovation, and transformation. Along the way she has researched, tested, developed and implemented different processes, tools and methods for individual and team learning, leadership, creativity, innovation, collaboration, agile and user centred design. Working at a national level across Scotland she was able to gather key insights into gaps in these methods, gaps in teaching practices and workshops, gaps that impact on scale up, longer term sustainability and delivery of organisational goals and benefits.

Website: https://tammywatchorn.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tammywatchorn

twitter: https://twitter.com/TamWatchorn

In this episode I meet Dr Tammy Watchorn, The Change Ninja

Tammy is just about to release her book The Change Ninja Handbook An Interactive Adventure for Leading Change, she has a background in project and programme management, organisational change and innovation alongside many years of mentoring, designing and facilitating workshops, events and training using face-to-face and virtual solutions.

Tammy is a Director at AnSáS which provides facilitation, training, mentoring and coaching for learning and insights for sustainable change, innovation and transformation. A director at Pentacle Scotland, part of Pentacle the Virtual Business School, a revolutionary business school, providing executive and management education to the world's most innovative organisations where they provoke, inspire, educate, enable, coach, and facilitate. Associate at Sparking Performance co-creating and delivering Applied Neuroscience for Delivering Change.

Following a career in scientific research, Tammy moved to working in the public sector and volunteering for the third sector on change, innovation, and transformation. Along the way she has researched, tested, developed and implemented different processes, tools and methods for individual and team learning, leadership, creativity, innovation, collaboration, agile and user centred design. Working at a national level across Scotland she was able to gather key insights into gaps in these methods, gaps in teaching practices and workshops, gaps that impact on scale up, longer term sustainability and delivery of organisational goals and benefits.

Website: https://tammywatchorn.com/

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tammywatchorn

twitter: https://twitter.com/TamWatchorn

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Find out more here www.nigelcreaser.com

In this episode, we have part two of my chat with Dr Troy Hall, The Talent Retention Expert,

Dr Troy has featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World, Dr. Troy Hall is an award-winning culture strategist, radio show host, speaker, author, and talent retention expert.

As the author of the Best Selling Title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and co-author of a Best New Book Release, Mission Matters: World’s Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips for Success, Dr. Troy was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.”

His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations.

With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's passion is helping others succeed. His consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent.

From the U.S. to Canada and the United Kingdom, from the Middle East to Africa, Asia, and Australia, Dr. Troy has spoken at global conferences as a subject matter expert on the topics of culture & leadership, strategy, and change.

Website: https://drtroyhall.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtroyhall/

Support the show

Get copies of books from all my guests in the shop tinyurl.com/SundayLunchPMPodShop

My latest book Project Manager Productivity Hacks is available: https://tinyurl.com/PMProdHacks

The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Podcast Listener Group: https://tinyurl.com/TheDinnerTable

Sponsor

A massive thank you to Tamplo for sponsoring this episode: Tamplo turns meetings into action plans! The two strengths of Tamplo, Meetings Project and Task Management & follow up easy and intuitive. Get a FREE 1-month trial here tinyurl.com/NigelCreaserTamplo

In this episode, we have part one of my chat with Dr Troy Hall, The Talent Retention Expert,

Dr Troy has featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World, Dr. Troy Hall is an award-winning culture strategist, radio show host, speaker, author, and talent retention expert.

As the author of the Best Selling Title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and co-author of a Best New Book Release, Mission Matters: World’s Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips for Success, Dr. Troy was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.”

His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations.

With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's passion is helping others succeed. His consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent.

From the U.S. to Canada and the United Kingdom, from the Middle East to Africa, Asia, and Australia, Dr. Troy has spoken at global conferences as a subject matter expert on the topics of culture & leadership, strategy, and change.

Website: https://drtroyhall.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtroyhall/

Support the show

Get copies of books from all my guests in the shop tinyurl.com/SundayLunchPMPodShop

My latest book Project Manager Productivity Hacks is available: https://tinyurl.com/PMProdHacks

The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Podcast Listener Group: https://tinyurl.com/TheDinnerTable

Sponsor

A massive thank you to Tamplo for sponsoring this episode: Tamplo turns meetings into action plans! The two strengths of Tamplo, Meetings Project and Task Management & follow up easy and intuitive. Get a FREE 1-month trial here tinyurl.com/NigelCreaserTamplo

In this episode, I have the second part of my conversation with Dr Penny Pullan, The Virtual Leadership PM.

Penny is a renowned expert in Virtual and Hybrid Leadership. She’s the author of the bestseller and CEO Today Top 5 book for lockdown: ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams’. She works with leaders and teams who are grappling with the challenges of our virtual and hybrid world, to enhance collaboration and effectiveness across dispersed and often newly formed teams.

Over the last nineteen years, Penny has built and rolled out globally her Virtual Leadership model, facilitation tools and techniques, achieving stunning results, working with organisations such as Robert Half, Astra Zeneca and the UK Government. Clients say: ‘Penny’s virtual leadership ideas are easy to implement and have transformed my effectiveness and that of my team.’ They find that clarity, connection, collaboration and confidence grow when they apply Penny’s methods.

This year Penny has published the 2nd Edition of her book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Success with Remote or Hybrid Work and Teams you can get a copy here: https://amzn.to/3xH4rqB

Web: https://makingprojectswork.co.uk/penny-pullan/

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pennypullan

twitter: https://twitter.com/pennypullan

Stuff Nigel Mentioned

The conferences I attended https://www.pmconference.gr/ & https://www.pmi.org/virtual-experience-series

Samson Meteor Mic - Portable USB Studio Quality Condenser Microphone: https://amzn.to/3bpi8lh

Support the show

Get copies of books from all my guests in the shop tinyurl.com/SundayLunchPMPodShop

My latest book Project Manager Productivity Hacks is available: https://tinyurl.com/PMProdHacks

The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Podcast Listener Group: https://tinyurl.com/TheDinnerTable

Sponsor

A massive thank you to Tamplo for sponsoring this episode: Tamplo turns meetings into action plans! The two strengths of Tamplo, Meetings Project and Task Management & follow up easy and intuitive. Get a FREE 1-month trial here tinyurl.com/NigelCreaserTamplo

In this episode, I meet Dr Penny Pullan, The Virtual Leadership PM 

Penny is a renowned expert in Virtual and Hybrid Leadership. She’s the author of the bestseller and CEO Today Top 5 book for lockdown: ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams’. She works with leaders and teams who are grappling with the challenges of our virtual and hybrid world, to enhance collaboration and effectiveness across dispersed and often newly formed teams. 

Over the last nineteen years, Penny has built and rolled out globally her Virtual Leadership model, facilitation tools and techniques, achieving stunning results, working with organisations such as Robert Half, Astra Zeneca and the UK Government. Clients say: ‘Penny’s virtual leadership ideas are easy to implement and have transformed my effectiveness and that of my team.’ They find that clarity, connection, collaboration and confidence grow when they apply Penny’s methods.

This year Penny has published the 2nd Edition of her book Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Success with Remote or Hybrid Work and Teams you can get a copy here: https://amzn.to/3xH4rqB

Web: https://makingprojectswork.co.uk/penny-pullan/

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pennypullan

twitter: https://twitter.com/pennypullan

Stuff Nigel Mentioned

The conferences I attended https://www.pmconference.gr/ & https://www.pmi.org/virtual-experience-series

Support the show

Get copies of books from all my guests in the shop tinyurl.com/SundayLunchPMPodShop

My latest book Project Manager Productivity Hacks is available: https://tinyurl.com/PMProdHacks

The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Podcast Listener Group: https://tinyurl.com/TheDinnerTable

Sponsor

A massive thank you to Tamplo for sponsoring this episode: Tamplo turns meetings into action plans! The two strengths of Tamplo, Meetings Project and Task Management & follow up easy and intuitive. Get a FREE 1-month trial here https://tinyurl.com/TamploNigelCreaser

This week we have part two of my interview with Elizabeth Harrin FAPM, The Rebellious PM.

Elizabeth Harrin is a project management expert & founder of the growing online site, RebelsGuideToPM.com.  An author of seven project management books, mentor & experienced practitioner, Elizabeth prides herself on her clear-eyed view of the challenges facing project managers today.

Her straight-talking, real-world advice, gleaned from twenty years’ experience doing the job, helps project managers deliver better quality results whilst ditching the burnout.  Elizabeth has led a variety of IT, process improvement and business change projects including ERP deployment and compliance initiatives. Shehasspenteight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France) and over a decade in healthcare.  Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University. She supports project managers through her mentoring programme, Project Management Rebels, & also contributes to a variety of other initiatives including sitting on the advisory board for the RISE Being Lean & Seen programme at Liverpool John Moores University.

Elizabeth speaks at conferences internationally & has appeared on stage and onscreen for events hosted by PMI, APM, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, IIL and more.  She is widely published on project management topics & has contributed to numerous websites and magazines including Project magazine.

Her latest book Managing Multiple Projects is out now, click to grab a copy.

Website: rebelsguidetopm.com or elizabeth-harrin.com

Social media links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethharrin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/otobosgroup

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Elizabeth.Harrin

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/RebelsGuideToPM/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Rebelsguidetoprojectmanagement

Instagram: @elizabeth.harrin

Clubhouse: @elizabethharrin

Stuff Nigel Mentioned

The conference I attended https://www.pmconference.gr/ & the two videos TEDx talks I mentioned

Will Stephens: How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/8S0FDjFBj8o

David JP Phillips: How to avoid death by PowerPoint: https://youtu.be/Iwpi1Lm6dFo

Support the show

Get copies of books from all my guests in the shop tinyurl.com/SundayLunchPMPodShop

My latest book Project Manager Productivity Hacks is available: https://tinyurl.com/PMProdHacks

The Sunday Lunch Project Manager Podcast Listener Group: https://tinyurl.com/TheDinnerTable

Sponsor

A massive thank you to Tamplo for sponsoring this episode: Tamplo turns meetings into action plans! The two strengths of Tamplo, Meetings Project and Task Management & follow up easy and intuitive. Get a FREE 1-month trial here tinyurl.com/NigelCreaserTamplo

This week we have part one of my interview with Elizabeth Harrin, The Rebellious PM.

Elizabeth Harrin is a project management expert and founder of the growing online site, RebelsGuideToPM.com.  An author of seven project management books, mentor and experienced practitioner, Elizabeth prides herself on her clear-eyed view of the challenges facing project managers today. 

Her straight-talking, real-world advice, gleaned from twenty years’ experience doing the job, helps project managers deliver better quality results whilst ditching the burnout.  Elizabeth has led a variety of IT, process improvement and business change projects including ERP deployment and compliance initiatives. Shehasspenteight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France) and over a decade in healthcare.  Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University. She supports project managers through her mentoring programme, Project Management Rebels, and also contributes to a variety of other initiatives including sitting on the advisory board for the RISE Being Lean and Seen programme at Liverpool John Moores University.  

Elizabeth speaks at conferences internationally and has appeared on stage and onscreen for events hosted by PMI, APM, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, IIL and more.  She is widely published on project management topics and has contributed to numerous websites and magazines including Project magazine.

Her latest book Managing Multiple Projects is out now, click to grab a copy.

Website: rebelsguidetopm.com or elizabeth-harrin.com

Social media links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethharrin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/otobosgroup

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Elizabeth.Harrin

RebelsGuideToPM on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebelsguidetopm

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/projectmanagementcafe/

Blog: https://RebelsGuideToPM.com

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/RebelsGuideToPM/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Rebelsguidetoprojectmanagement

Instagram: @elizabeth.harrin

Clubhouse: @elizabethharrin