Project Management Happy Hour
By Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson
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PM Happy Hour is the place for frank and honest discussion about real world issues in project management. We do it in a way that's not too dry, though it may get a bit salty from time to time.
Each episode, your hosts Kim Essendrup and Kate Anderson cover a problem faced in project management today, and share practical advice, real-life examples and the occasional project horror story.
Not only that, but every podcast is also an online class! Our host is a PMI Registered Education Provider, who has structured each podcast as an easy-to-listen-to lesson. To get credit, go to our web site at PMHappyHour.com, purchase your class, take the test (based on the content from our podcast) and you get your PDU certificate instantly!
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114 - Happy Hour Chatter: What PMs Really Do, Fear in Decision-Making, and Lessons from Going solo
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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113 - Top Shelf Replay: Stage direction in the boardroom
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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112 - Burnout: when a 500k job isn't worth it, with Norlander Wilson
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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111 - Top Shelf Replay: How do you start a hard conversation?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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110 - Are you defining project success wrong? Most PM's do! With PMI's Dave Garrett
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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109 - Top Shelf Replay: The Wolf - how to take over broken projects
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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108 - Why Risk Management? Future You Will Thank You
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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107 - Top Shelf Replay: The Closer - Avoiding Project Acceptance Exception
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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106 - Finish Strong: Why the End of Your Project Matters Most
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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105 - Top Shelf Replay: How to Deal with Stupid Executive Asks
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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104 - The one meeting that will make or break your project
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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103 - Lessons not Learned: State of Maine HR System Project Debacle
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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102 - Kim's first day working for the Empire: Kate runs another Project Management role-play
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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101 - The Project Behind: Not Impossible Labs with Mick Ebeling
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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100 - Retrospective: Our 100th Episode
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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099 - The Iron Triangle of Getting a PM Job, with PM Career Coach, Kayla Quijas
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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099 - The Iron Triangle of Getting a PM Job, with PM Career Coach, Kayla Quijas
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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099 - The Iron Triangle of Getting a PM Job, with PM Career Coach, Kayla Quijas
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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098 - Don't Eat the Prickly Pears: Learning how to prioritize with James Louttit
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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097 - PMO: Friend or Foe?
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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096 - Design thinking: don't take things at face value or you will face plant, with guest Erik Rueter
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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095 - The 5 Foundational Behaviors for Developing Informal Authority, with Kory Kogon of Franklin Covey
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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094 - Agile vs Waterfall Smack-Down!
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May 14, 2024 |
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093 - Rising from Tactical PM to Strategic Advisor, with Gregg Richie and Ralph Kliem
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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092 - Goblins in the room! Managing meeting misbehaviors, with Rich Maltzman
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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091 - The Perfect Status Report: How to measure percent complete
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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090 - How to tell other people what to do
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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089 - Reorgs and Restructurings: sailing the waves of organizational change chaos
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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088 - The CHAOS Report: Measuring project failure
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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087 - Creative decision making: do you have the right 4 voices in the room? with Teresa Lawrence
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May 17, 2023 |
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086 - The project behind a Disaster Response, with the ITDRC
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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085 - Deciding on how to make good Decisions, with Kandis Porter
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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084 - OH, We Forgot About Change Management! What to do when you get caught with your ADKAR down, with Tim Creasey
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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083 - The 30 Minute Executive Meeting: Make it count
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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082 - The Project Behind a Tech Startup, with Pete Bernardo from Punchlist
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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081 - The Project Behind an Emergency Covid Vaccination Site, with Aaron Bellinger, PMP
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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080 - First PM on the Beach: How to succeed when you are the first Project Manager in your organization
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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079 - Welcome to the Dungeon! Kate and Kim do Project Management RPG (D&D)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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078 - Recommending Change Without Getting Chased out the Door
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May 24, 2022 |
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077 - Behavioral PM: the Feakonomics approach to project delivery with Dr. Josh Ramirez
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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076 - Imposter Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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075 - Top Tips from a Project Management Coach, with Heather Gates
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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074 - The Project Behind a Movie
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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073 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 2
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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072 - A 12 Pack of Alignment Hacks with Tim Creasey - Part 1
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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The Project Behind an Ironman Triathlon with Paul Huddle, Senior Regional Director for the Ironman Group
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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070 - Change Management Mic Drops with Tim Creasey
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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069 - Project Management in an Alien Environment
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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068 - Interviewing PM's: Inside the Mind of a Hiring Manager with Matt Henderson
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May 17, 2021 |
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067 - What the heck is ITSM? And how is it like Improv?
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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066 - How to be a consultant: Dealing with customers without having a nervous breakdown
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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064 - Getting into - or out of - Project Management, with Ben Aston of The Digital Project Manager podcast
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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063 - Candid Conversations with a Project Management Recruiter, with Norma Gutierrez
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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062 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 2 of 2)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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061 - Do I really need a PMO? (Part 1 of 2)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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060 - Say-Do-Say: Fundamentals of Project Communication
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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059 - Crying Happens
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May 12, 2020 |
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058 - Shut-in but not Shut-down: Managing Projects and Teams from Home
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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057 - ADKAR: It's not a trap! Change Management can save your mission
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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056 Don't buy the bias! Managing bias in project management
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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055 - A slice of Thankfulness from Kate and Kim
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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054 - How to be a Project Manager: Kate and Kim get interviewed by a PM student about breaking into the field
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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053 - What if I told you that you were a PM all along?
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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052 - Who owns this baby when I'm done? Planning for deliverables handover
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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051 - They told me I'm "Too Nice?!" Dealing with inactionable feedback
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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050 - Project Financials 101: A quick and dirty overview of how money affects projects
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May 30, 2019 |
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049 - How to Call BS without getting Sh#t upon
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May 20, 2019 |
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048 - Brand Yourself with Sonia Mundra
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May 01, 2019 |
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047 - Project Management at Burning Man: Managing Volunteers, with Kayla Glenn
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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046 - Process, Data & Maturity: is it BS or does it really matter?
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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045 - Entrepreneurial Project Management with Rolondo Talbott
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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044 - Dear Project Diary: Project (b)logging to keep your head straight
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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043 - How to be "The Wolf" - Taking over broken projects
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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042 - The Closer: Avoiding Project Acceptance Exceptions
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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041 - Witness me! Justifying Project Management
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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040 - I'm a WHAT?! What's the point of personality assessments?
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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039 - Burning Questions: A Trick or treat bag of listener mail
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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038 - Charter? Huh! What is it good for? (absolutely every project)
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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037 - Transform from Project Manager to Project Leader - with Naomi Caietti
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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036 - PMO - What is it really? And how do I run one?
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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PM Happy Hour Membership - Helping new PMs "How to PM"
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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PM Happy Hour Membership - Painless, easy PDU's!
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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035 - Kickass Martial Arts Lessons for Project Managers
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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034 - PM Superhero Smackdown! Kate and Kim share lessons from their favorite movie PMs
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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033 - Lessons from Interviewing 50 Women PMs in 50 days - a chat with Elise Stevens
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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032 - Project Management Thunderdome! Internal versus External Project Managers
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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031 - Crucial Conversations part 3 - Stepping in and taking the lead
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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030 - Crucial Conversations part 2: Oh, man it just got difficult!
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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029 - Stop the Scope Creep! Using Change Control to keep the monsters at bay
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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028 - Embracing the Escalation: raising visibility without raising your blood pressure
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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027 - Crucial Conversations: Part 1 - Oh, man it just got crucial
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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026 - Mastering the Mastermind: facilitating small groups for big results
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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025 - The Last Move - a little bit of game theory for your projects
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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024 - How to Run a Meeting - and not waste everyone's time
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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023-Learning to Swim: Getting oriented in a new organization without going under
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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022-Getting to Yes: Negotiation for non-negotiators (part 2 of 2)
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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021-Getting to Yes: Negotiation for non-negotiators (part 1 of 2)
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May 23, 2018 |
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020-An Influence Toolkit: Getting stuff done without authority
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May 11, 2018 |
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019-Stage Direction in the Boardroom
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May 02, 2018 |
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018-What I wish I'd known when I started Project Management
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Apr 20, 2018 |