Archives: Courses

PM Happy Hour 048-Brand Yourself with Sonia Mundra This course we talk through strategies and tactics to help develop leadership qualities to propel your career.

PM Happy Hour 049-Calling Bulls##t Without Getting Sh#t Upon This course we talk through strategies and tactics for calling out when team members are not being forthright with others -and themselves

PM Happy Hour 047-Project Management at Burning Man: Managing Volunteers, with Kayla Glenn This course we talk through the findings of a survey measuring how data and process impact project performance, and what this means for managing our projects and portfolios

PM Happy Hour 046-Process, Data & Maturity: is it BS or does it really matter? This course we talk through the findings of a survey measuring how data and process impact project performance, and what this means for managing our projects and portfolios

PM Happy Hour 045 – Entreprenedurial Project Management with Rolondo Talbott In this course, we talk about being an “Entrepreneurial Project Manager” and why we need to look past the stated goals of our project and stakeholders and try to engage deeper to drive value

PM Happy Hour 044- Dear Project Diary: Project (b)logging to keep your head straight In this course, we discuss keeping a  detailed log of your project activities. We also discuss the benefits and drawbacks of different tools, and whether or not the log should be public or private. By the end of this course, participants […]

PM Happy Hour 043- How to be “The Wolf” – Taking over broken projects A natural stage in PM professional development is when you become the ‘fixer’ – the one called in to take over or fix ‘broken’ critical projects. This  is hard, stressful work, and you may wonder why you get (or keep getting) […]

PM Happy Hour 042-The Closer: Avoiding Project Acceptance Exceptions In this course, we discuss different problems you can have getting a project closed, and how to address them so you can achieve a crisp, definitive closure.

PM Happy Hour 040 – I’m a WHAT?! What’s the point of personality assessments? In this course, we cover a variety of “most common PM questions” left on our PM Happy Hour social channels. By the end of this course, the attendee should have answers to some of the most common questions we get as […]

PM Happy Hour 039-Burning Questions: A Trick or treat bag of listener mail In this course, we cover a variety of “most common PM questions” left on our PM Happy Hour social channels. By the end of this course, the attendee should have answers to some of the most common questions we get as PMs.

PM Happy Hour 036 – PMO – What is it really? And how do I run one? This Course, we get the great opportunity to speak with Hussain Bandukwala, PMO Coach and founder of the PMO Virtual Summit this October. Hussain helps us understand what a PMO really is (and should be), then shares some […]

PM Happy Hour 038-Charter? Huh! What is it good for? (absolutely every project) In this course, we discuss what a Project Charter is, when you need one, and what should be in a charter. We also provide a template and give you a step-by-step walk through of the template

PM Happy Hour 035-Kickass Martial Arts Lessons for Project Managers This course, Kim shares some lessons from his martial arts studies which apply to Project Management! And no, they do not include giving that troublesome stakeholder a spin-kick to the head 🙂 But they do include how to gently assert yourself and how to approach […]

PM Happy Hour 034-PM Superhero Smackdown! Kate and Kim share lessons from their favorite movie PMs This course, we are excited to have Elise Stevens, podcaster, speaker and PM thought leader join us! Elise shares what she learned in undertaking the task to interview 50 women in Project Management over 50 days, and gives us […]

PM Happy Hour 033-Lessons from Interviewing 50 Women PMs in 50 days – a chat with Elise Stevens This course, we are excited to have Elise Stevens, podcaster, speaker and PM thought leader join us! Elise shares what she learned in undertaking the task to interview 50 women in Project Management over 50 days, and […]

PM Happy Hour 032-Project Management Thunderdome! Internal versus External Project Managers Project Managers can be categorized as “internal” project managers, who deliver projects for stakeholders within their own organizations, or “external” project managers, who delivery projects to customers outside their organization. Although both are project managers, there are some very important differences between the skill […]

PM Happy Hour 031 – Crucial Conversations part 3 – Stepping in and taking the lead One of the toughest – and most important jobs – of a PM is having difficult conversations. These can be with sponsors, stakeholders, team members or other PMs. And the ability to successfully manage these difficult conversations can make […]

PM Happy Hour 030 – Crucial Conversations part 2: Oh, man it just got difficult! One of the toughest – and most important jobs – of a PM is having difficult conversations. These can be with sponsors, stakeholders, team members or other PMs. And the ability to successfully manage these difficult conversations can make the […]

PM Happy Hour 029 – Stop the Scope Creep! Using Change Control to keep the monsters at bay Management escalation, oh, no! When issues get escalated to our managers and executive stakeholders, our hearts sink, a sweat breaks out and we start to freak out. But should we? Maybe we should “flip the script” and […]