176: The Power of Project Leadership, with Susanne Madsen
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Susanne Madsen: The Power of Project Leadership
Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, speaker and consultant. Susanne specializes in helping project managers transform into leaders. She is the author of The Power of Project Leadership*.
“Most organizations jump very quickly from the idea stage to the doing stage.” -Susanne Madsen
Project definition: it’s key to determine the value the project offers to the organization
Be strong enough to show weakness and ask the dumb questions
Two problems in managing risk
- Not properly dealing with expected risks
- Paying little or no attention to unexpected risks
Connect with Susanne on Twitter or LinkedIn
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| 0:00.0 | It's one thing to put together a project management plan and determine who should do what when. |
| 0:05.0 | It's entirely another to lead a project. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, some practical strategy tips for project management. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 1. strategy tips for project management. |
| 0:12.8 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 176. |
| 0:16.5 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:28.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help leaders improve their communication, |
| 0:37.0 | coaching, strategy, productivity, and personal mastery. And today we're going to take a look at one of the key pieces of this |
| 0:46.8 | strategy and particularly we're going to look through the lens of |
| 0:51.7 | project management now we lens of project management. Now we've mentioned |
| 0:54.4 | project management on the show before and many of the topics that we talk about on |
| 0:59.0 | a regular basis are very directly related to project management. |
| 1:03.4 | However, we haven't really taken an entire show |
| 1:05.9 | to look at the importance and the strategy |
| 1:08.4 | behind project management. |
| 1:10.0 | And we could do a whole series of shows on this. |
| 1:12.6 | In fact, there are entire podcasts on project management. |
| 1:15.2 | I think we'll mention at least one of them today. |
| 1:17.6 | But I am so glad to welcome someone who really has an expertise in project management but also is very effective at |
| 1:25.0 | helping people to utilize good leadership skills in project management and |
| 1:29.8 | that is Suzanne Mattson. Suzanne is an internationally recognized project leadership coach, trainer, speaker, and consultant. |
| 1:38.4 | And she is the author of the new book, The Power of Project Leadership, and also of her previous book, The Project Management |
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