Day 2: Tuesday 29th of September

Maximising your revenue by value-centred selling and pricing

Value-Centred Selling & Pricing: Enhancing your revenue in Covid timesSales opportunities are precious: we want to make the most of them. When there are many project-managers looking for work, it’s easy for rates to plummet. How do you protect your fee income from being eroded? The answer is to sell and price according to value, rather…

The Projectless Manager – Inspirational Thoughts from a World of Project Managers

The 21-day challenge was to design, write, produce, and publish a book written by project managers from around the world, during lockdown – and we did it! The book is a sharing of ideas and thoughts from this current world crisis, and how project managers have, in many cases, become projectless managers but kept on…

Wellbeing for Teams

His talk on Wellbeing in Teams will cover such topics as trust, building small scale communities, personal values, curiosity, creativity, self-management, self-care and group support and how important this all is for healthy supportive, close-knit teams to thrive and flourish. When teams work well together, they can concentrate all their energy on getting things done,…

Friends and Foes – Managing Stakeholders in an Unpredictable World

Steering your organisation through the maze of stakeholders is always a challenge, but during a crisis the stakes increase and it can be the difference between a temporary setback and permanent organisational damage.In the last months we have seen the amazing speed with which Covid-19 can spread, causing financial and reputational damage to companies, but more importantly also physical harm to…

PMBOK® Guide 7 – A Fundamentally Different Perspective to Project Management

I’m one of the 12 core development team members responsible for the upcoming version of the PMBOK® Guide. In this session, I will explain the changes we’ve made to the standard and the rationale behind them, and I’ll answer your questions. All previous editions of the PMBOK Guide were building on top of each other…

Spreading delight, energy and fun amongst your co-workers and customers.

We’ve heard it all before: – “A self-organizing and cross-functional team.”– “Values embodied and lived by the team.”– “The pillars of empiricism come to life and build trust for everyone.” Feels like a walk in the park. Doesn’t it? There are loads of studies done by (famous…?) social psychologists on the topic of team work,…