The Sunday Lunch Project Manager

Great to chat with Joel Stone one of the head honchos at Codebreak and host of the Stay Hungry Podcast about my new book Project Manager Productivity Hacks (did I mention it was out?)

Get the book: https://amzn.to/3DYjqwZ

Web: www.codebreak.co.uk

Podcast: https://www.codebreak.co.uk/stay-hungry-marketing-podcast/

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Gary Lloyd, The Gardner, Not The Mechanic!

Gary Lloyd helps organisations make sustainable change, by asking them to think and act like gardeners, not mechanics.

It's an analogy that leverages familiar gardening concepts and practices that effectively combine: Systems Thinking, Behavioural Science, Design Thinking and Lean Project Management (which don't usually mention or talk about explicitly, to avoid off-putting concepts and jargon).

Since 1994, when he managed his first large IT-enabled change programme in retail banking, he has directed and consulted in numerous large-scale programmes and projects that have delivered tens of millions of pounds of business value, primarily, but not exclusively, in financial markets and banking organisations.

In addition to his work in organisational change, for the least ten years, he have been a member of the Warwick Business School Executive Coaching Panel, and a steering committee member for the school's award winning Mentoring Programme, helping senior and mid-level executives to achieve success. The mentoring programme has 240 mentors and has mentored over 1,000 mentees since 2009, providing him with a unique window on the world of work.

He believes that today's organisations are more like ecosystems than machines. Sustainable change, therefore, is more likely to succeed if we approach change as a gardener, rather than a mechanic. Success depends on recognising and embracing unpredictability, not pretending it doesn't exist.

He is the author of two books:

Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at work and

Business Leadership for IT Projects

Web: www.gardenersnotmechanics.com

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/notmechanics

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gardenersnotmechanics

Stuff Nige mentioned

NEW BOOK Project Manager Productivity Hacks: https://amzn.to/3GBTusK

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Gary Lloyd, The Gardener, Not The Mechanic!

Gary Lloyd helps organisations make sustainable change, by asking them to think and act like gardeners, not mechanics.

It's an analogy that leverages familiar gardening concepts and practices that effectively combine: Systems Thinking, Behavioural Science, Design Thinking and Lean Project Management (which don't usually mention or talk about explicitly, to avoid off-putting concepts and jargon).

Since 1994, when he managed his first large IT-enabled change programme in retail banking, he has directed and consulted in numerous large-scale programmes and projects that have delivered tens of millions of pounds of business value, primarily, but not exclusively, in financial markets and banking organisations.

In addition to his work in organisational change, for the least ten years, he have been a member of the Warwick Business School Executive Coaching Panel, and a steering committee member for the school's award winning Mentoring Programme, helping senior and mid-level executives to achieve success. The mentoring programme has 240 mentors and has mentored over 1,000 mentees since 2009, providing him with a unique window on the world of work.

He believes that today's organisations are more like ecosystems than machines. Sustainable change, therefore, is more likely to succeed if we approach change as a gardener, rather than a mechanic. Success depends on recognising and embracing unpredictability, not pretending it doesn't exist.

He is the author of two books:

Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at work and

Business Leadership for IT Projects

Web: www.gardenersnotmechanics.com

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/notmechanics

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gardenersnotmechanics

Stuff Nige mentioned

NEW BOOK Project Manager Productivity Hacks: https://amzn.to/3GBTusK

In this episode, we have part 2 of my interview with Sabrina Dennis, The Charity CEO.

Sabrina is the Chief Executive of First Class Foundation, a charity based in Birmingham UK working with young people aged 13- 25 to do three things.

Connect - young people to their purpose, by creating pathways to jobs, training, apprenticeships and other positive activities

Build - mental health resilience

Reduce - youth violence and issues resulting in negative lifestyles.

She is a consultant at Legacy Consultants, who are specialists in behaviour change using innovative methods to challenge the usual behaviour of organisations when trying to reach new and diverse communities offering training in BAME engagement, creating bespoke events and delivery specialist outreach as just a few of our outputs.  She is the founder of Kitchen Table Talks a platform where females can talk, meet new friends and have fun. In an age where face to face conversations are becoming a thing of the past, where virtual and online messaging is on the rise, I have created a free space where females can learn, be inspired, motivated.  Driven by her passion for sharing learning and skills she is the author of the Educational Programme: Education 4 Life. This tool is used as a reflective personal journey, in the form of a 12-week programme that is available to be delivered in schools. Education 4 Life teaches young people aged 13-16 to set goals, self assess relationships and even learn how to pay bills... something that no one wants to do, but that we all have to do.  Author of A Piece of the Pie a book written for women giving tips and tricks on how to manage yourself, your home and your family all at the same time!

Stuff Nige mentioned

My Website www.nigelcreaser.com

My Marathon Training : https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=NigelCreasersvirtualLondon2021&pageUrl=1

In this episode, we have part 1 of my interview with Sabrina Dennis, The Charity CEO.

Sabrina is the Chief Executive of First Class Foundation, a charity based in Birmingham UK working with young people aged 13- 25 to do three things.

Connect - young people to their purpose, by creating pathways to jobs, training, apprenticeships and other positive activities

Build - mental health resilience

Reduce - youth violence and issues resulting in negative lifestyles.

She is a consultant at Legacy Consultants, who are specialists in behaviour change using innovative methods to challenge the usual behaviour of organisations when trying to reach new and diverse communities offering training in BAME engagement, creating bespoke events and delivery specialist outreach as just a few of our outputs.

She is the founder of Kitchen Table Talks a platform where females can talk, meet new friends and have fun. In an age where face to face conversations are becoming a thing of the past, where virtual and online messaging is on the rise, I have created a free space where females can learn, be inspired, motivated.

Driven by her passion for sharing learning and skills she is the author of the Educational Programme: Education 4 Life. This tool is used as a reflective personal journey, in the form of a 12-week programme that is available to be delivered in schools. Education 4 Life teaches young people aged 13-16 to set goals, self assess relationships and even learn how to pay bills... something that no one wants to do, but that we all have to do.

Author of A Piece of the Pie a book written for women giving tips and tricks on how to manage yourself, your home and your family all at the same time!

Stuff Nige mentioned

My Website www.nigelcreaser.com

My Marathon Training : https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?userUrl=NigelCreasersvirtualLondon2021&pageUrl=1

In this episode, we talk to Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart about their book How to Facilitate Productive Project Planning Meetings: A Practical Guide to Ensuring Project Success

Rich Maltzman PMP, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, to the 2006 integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at:

    Boston University’s Corporate Education Center

    Merrimack College

    Northern Essex Community College

    University of Massachusetts – Lowell

web: http://earthpm.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/exclaim

Jim Stewart PMP has been a project manager for twenty-five years and since 2003 has been independently providing consulting, training and mentoring. A PMP since 2001 and Certified Scrum Master since 2013, he contributes by helping organizations increase their project maturity and best practices.

In 2019, he received three agile certifications: PMI-ACP, IC-Agile coach and SAFe (Scaled Agile.) He is currently a partner in The Agile Collaborative which provides agile consulting and training.

web: https://jpstewartconsulting.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstewartpmp

In this episode, we have Part 2 of my chat with Sheilina Somani, ChPP, RPP, FAPM, FHEA, The Positively Project Manager.

Sheilina is a pragmatic professional with exceptional interpersonal skills. A capable and respected Project, Programme and Product Manager, coach, enabler with significant global business experience.  One of the first Global Chartered Project Professional's (ChPP), and also hold Registered Project Professional (RPP), Fellow (FAPM) Association for Project Management and past PMP (26yrs), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

She provides project, programme and product management consultancy services to a range of public and private organisations. Responsible for embedding project management methodology and practices in a number of organisations. A consummate change agent influencing C-level leadership through to junior staff by training, coaching and mentoring, to facilitate structure, documentation and behavioural change for improved business and personal performance.  With over 30 years of project management expertise, she is passionate about continuing to strengthen this profession through education, coaching, mentoring and support. I possess significant theoretical and practical experience of leadership, management, public speaking and mentoring. Having worked globally as a project manager, successfully delivering a range of projects across most of the fortune top 100 companies; this experience is further augmented by having developed and/or delivered training and education in over 700 global cities.

Web: http://www.sheilinasomani.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilina/

twitter: https://twitter.com/SheilinaSomani

In this episode, we have Part 1 of my chat with Sheilina Somani, ChPP, RPP, FAPM, FHEA, The Positively Project Manager.

Sheilina is a pragmatic professional with exceptional interpersonal skills. A capable and respected Project, Programme and Product Manager, coach, enabler with significant global business experience.

One of the first Global Chartered Project Professional's (ChPP), and also hold Registered Project Professional (RPP), Fellow (FAPM) Association for Project Management and past PMP (26yrs), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

She provides project, programme and product management consultancy services to a range of public and private organisations. Responsible for embedding project management methodology and practices in a number of organisations. A consummate change agent influencing C-level leadership through to junior staff by training, coaching and mentoring, to facilitate structure, documentation and behavioural change for improved business and personal performance.

With over 30 years of project management expertise, she is passionate about continuing to strengthen this profession through education, coaching, mentoring and support. I possess significant theoretical and practical experience of leadership, management, public speaking and mentoring. Having worked globally as a project manager, successfully delivering a range of projects across most of the fortune top 100 companies; this experience is further augmented by having developed and/or delivered training and education in over 700 global cities.

Web: http://www.sheilinasomani.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilina/

twitter: https://twitter.com/SheilinaSomani

In this episode, we have Part 2 of my chat with Liz Hobbs, The DISC Personality Profile PM.

Liz works to help you improve your performance and unleash your potential in a way that positively impacts you, your team and your organisation.

She is a licensed trainer in DISC Personality Profiling and a certified Public Speaking Coach, and employs a three-step process of personal, team and organisational transformation that first starts with understanding individual personality profiles, which in turn is used to identify team dynamics and provide additional support in learning how to communicate accordingly.

Her 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲:

✅ A systematic DISC Personality Profile assessment to help you better understand yourself & your team members

✅ In-depth analysis to provide a coaching foundation that strengthens your communication using numerous personality styles

✅ Coaching on public speaking to enhance your communication skills

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:

✅ 20+ years Project Management experience

✅ Director-level Sales & Marketing experience

✅ ILM Level 7 Executive Coach & Mentor

✅ Distinguished Toastmaster with 16 years’ experience

✅ M865 & APM Project Management in Risk, Planning & Stakeholder Management

✅ In-depth understanding of Knowledge & Information Management; experienced facilitator in Lessons Learned workshops

Things I mentioned:

PMI UK National Project Awards 2020 Black Tie Gala Dinner 15th July 2021 tickets here

Project Manager Productivity Hacks pre-order here

My sponsor page for the virtual London Marathon here

Patreon here 

The shop here

In this episode, we have Part 1 of my chat with Liz Hobbs, The DISC Personality Profile PM.

Liz works to help you improve your performance and unleash your potential in a way that positively impacts you, your team and your organisation.

She is a licensed trainer in DISC Personality Profiling and a certified Public Speaking Coach, and employs a three-step process of personal, team and organisational transformation that first starts with understanding individual personality profiles, which in turn is used to identify team dynamics and provide additional support in learning how to communicate accordingly.

Her 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲:

✅ A systematic DISC Personality Profile assessment to help you better understand yourself & your team members

✅ In-depth analysis to provide a coaching foundation that strengthens your communication using numerous personality styles

✅ Coaching on public speaking to enhance your communication skills

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:

✅ 20+ years Project Management experience

✅ Director-level Sales & Marketing experience

✅ ILM Level 7 Executive Coach & Mentor

✅ Distinguished Toastmaster with 16 years’ experience

✅ M865 & APM Project Management in Risk, Planning & Stakeholder Management

✅ In-depth understanding of Knowledge & Information Management; experienced facilitator in Lessons Learned workshops

Things I mentioned:

Project Manager Productivity Hacks pre-order here

My sponsor page for the virtual London Marathon here

Patreon here 

The shop here