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026: Larry Yatch – Building High Performing Teams: Lessons of a Navy SEAL
In episode 26 of The Project Management Show, we are honored to be joined LT Lawrence Yatch, a Navy SEAL, now retired. Larry is the CEO and Founder of Sealed Mindset and Creator of the Exceptional Team Formula, a FORMULA that Navy SEALs have been using for decades in some of the world’s worst places to operate exceptional teams. Larry also discusses how he has adapted these principles into his own personal work/life balance.
Larry has been honored with the ‘Combat V’ for Valor in Battle “above and beyond the call of duty,”
The Achievement Medal for Innovation in Navy SEAL combat tactics;
The Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; and the Humanitarian Service Medal for relief efforts in East Timor and Sri Lanka.
Larry has been recognized as a (Real) Power 50 Award winner by Minneapolis Business Magazine for his team performance planning strategies for turbo-charging teams to speed success.
And after 8 years of teaching innovative team optimization strategies to senior executives and managers at multi-million and billion dollar companies and also coaching high performing CEOs in the same, Larry has now bottled his Exceptional Team FORMULA in a planning software and training program to bring the Expert Navy SEAL Tactical Planner to YOUR teams.
Larry has provided a special offer to PM Show listeners for a free 30-minute strategy session. Please go to:
https://www.plan-sight.com/ProjectManagementShow
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems and Dash360
Resources
The guests on The Project Management Show have either written or recommended the following books:
Lonnie Pacelli
Check out http://www.projectmanagementadvisor.com/ for all of Lonnie’s books, training materials, and other insightful resources.
Jennifer Kahnweiler
Susanne Madsen
Rich Maltzman
Peter Taylor
Elizabeth Harrin
018: Chris Rhodes – Insights for Implementing a Cost Estimating Solution
Episode 018 of The Project Management Show features Chris Rhodes of Project Execution 4 U, providing insight into what you should consider when implementing a cost estimating solution. One solution to consider is PE4U’s Janus, and Chris touches on what Janus has to offer.
Mr. Chris Rhodes is one of the senior leaders at Project Execution 4 U. An organization providing Project Services and Project Management solutions. Chris is an accomplished project management professional with over 15 years of experience with a concentration in cost estimating. Chris graduated with a BSPA from Indiana University, holds an MBA in Accounting from Indiana Wesleyan University, and holds two certificates in Estimating. In his spare time, Chris enjoys aviation and is an Instrument Rated pilot who enjoys flying his Mooney 231 airplane.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems
013: Greg Githens – How to Think Strategically & Using the Tool Between Your Ears to Get Promoted
Episode 013 of The Project Management Show features Greg Githens, one of PMI’s most senior and popular instructors, bringing a pragmatic approach and enthusiastic style to his students and audiences.
He specializes in strategic program management issues; strategic thinking, strategic initiatives, program management, and customer-driven innovation. In taking his courses, you’ll learn that “the most important tool is the one between your ears.” You’ll learn why experts approach problem solving differently than do novices. Greg challenges all of his students to absorb the material and make a productive difference to their organizations.
Greg is the co-author of Successful Project Management (4th edition), a senior contributing editor to Visions magazine, a blogger, the author of 50 articles on improving organizational performance, and he has been a featured speaker at PMI congresses, PMI chapters, The Management Roundtable, and elsewhere.
He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University (USA) and a master’s degree from Miami University (USA). He holds the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems
012: Kurt Knapton – The Essentials for Visionary Leadership That Leads to Positive Change
Episode 012 of The Project Management Show features Kurt Knapton, a visionary leader who turns innovative thinking into results. As President and CEO of Research Now, Kurt helped establish and scale the world’s leading digital data-collection company serving the market research industry. Annually the company executes over 40,000 projects and generates more than $300 Million of global revenue.
Prior to joining Research Now, Kurt spent a decade leading projects as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture, specializing in business and technology strategy and execution. Kurt has served more than 20 “Fortune 1000” clients with business improvement analysis and advice.
Kurt earned his MBA degree from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business and was an Honors Program graduate at Baylor University, where he holds a BBA in Management and Information Systems.
Kurt is currently a board member of Research Now and active as a “social entrepreneur” who is passionate about improving the lives of children in developing countries through holistic micro-finance, educational, and orphan sponsorship programs.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems
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The Project Management Data Experts
There are good software development companies, and there are companies that are experts in project management, but finding a company that excels in both is difficult, …that is until you meet The Trident Group. The Trident Group, Inc. develops, deploys, operates and sustains leading edge project management software applications and data management systems for government agencies and industry leaders. As experts in Microsoft SharePoint technologies, they have delivered dozens of custom solutions from desktop to mobile devices that have satisfied the needs of project management professionals challenged with distilling the mountains of data into usable information to make informed business decisions and make them faster. If you are looking for a development team that understands the project management data they are working with then visit tgi-us.com to learn more about The Trident Group and their solutions.
Visualize Your Data Like Never Before
ash360 is business intelligence company offering a dashboard creation platform and BI consulting services expertise focused on project management. Why the focus on project management and the integration of project management databases to create reports, visualizations and applications?
If you are going to fail, fail fast – Courtesy of Elizabeth Harrin
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Harrin, author of Social Media for Project Managers and the blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management.
The average large company, running around 150 projects at any one time, loses £13 million a year by not stopping projects that are failing. It’s not always management’s responsibility to cancel projects: if you’re working on something that you know isn’t going to deliver the proposed benefits, you need to speak up. Quickly.
Keith Richards, one of the UK’s Agile experts, said, “If you are going to fail, fail fast.” Mistakes happen. Things go wrong. It is how you deal with it that counts. A project manager who makes mistakes and owns up to them early will find people willing to help to get things back on track. These projects are late at the beginning but tend to make up the time later.
A project manager who hides mistakes, crossing her fingers until the project is nearing its due date, will find that people will – for the most part – rally round to help get things back on track. But this will be because there is now little choice about pressing on. These projects are “on track” until near the end but then have been shown to take, overall, twice as long. So, own up to your mistakes, and put things right as soon as you can.
If you can’t, remember that the project manager’s role is partly to direct the work and partly to provide an objective position on how the work is done – and that means suggesting stopping everything and starting again, or even not starting again, if necessary. Recommending that a project is closed can be a very positive action.
Late projects or closed projects can feel like professional failure. One way to deal with things that feel like they are going wrong at work is to have something outside of work that you care about, that helps put things in perspective. Carry out Murray’s Deathbed Test (named after a colleague from a previous job who had a very sensible outlook on life). Think forward to when you are old and dying. How will you complete the sentence, “I wish I had spent more time…”? I very much doubt the answer will be “completing my issue logs” or “updating my Gantt chart”. Work hard, be professional, but keep things in perspective.
Keeping things in perspective will stop you being afraid of challenging senior people. Not all projects are started from the basis of a competent idea. If you know the project is going to fail, explain why it should be stopped: then it’s up to your sponsor to take the final decision to stop it.
007: Dr. Dan Patterson PMP – Tools of the Trade, Inventing Them & Using Them
Like the Great Oz, Dr. Dan Patterson PMP has been the man behind the curtain creating leading project management tools for over 20 years.
A globally recognized project analytics thought leader and software entrepreneur, Dan has several highly successful Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software companies under his belt (most recently Acumen), Dan has a unique combination of solution innovation combined with extensive commercial & technical project management experience including advanced scheduling, risk management, project analytics & artificial intelligence. This experience has been used to lead multiple successful software company start-ups with Dan being a true visionary & renowned marketeer.
Most recently, as CEO and founder of Acumen, Dan spent 5 years organically growing and nurturing this now widely recognized industry leading project analytics company (www.projectacumen.com). Acquired by Deltek in 2013, today, the Acumen suite of products (Fuse, 360 and Acumen Risk) are used by thousands of Fortune 500 project controls specialists.
This episode is sponsored by The Trident Group
006: Elizabeth Harrin answers the question, “How hard can it be?”
Elizabeth Harrin, MA, FAPM, MBCS is director of Otobos Consultants Ltd, a project communications consultancy specializing in copywriting for project management firms. Elizabeth also works as a practicing project and program manager. Elizabeth is a PRINCE2, MSP and P3O Practitioner, and holds the ITIL Foundation certificate. She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of PMI.
She is the author of three books about project management: Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014),
Elizabeth is the award-winning blogger behind A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, a specialist blog aimed at helping project managers communicate more effectively. She is widely published on project management topics and has contributed to numerous websites and magazines.
You can find Elizabeth online at www.GirlsGuidetoPM.com or on Twitter @pm4girls.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems