946: Why Most Projects Fail and What to Do About it with Kory Kogon
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Kory Kogon offers her practical guide for effective project management–even when you’re not the official project manager.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why most projects fail
2) Key questions to ask before starting any project
3) The five behaviors of successful unofficial project managers
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— ABOUT KORY —
Kory Kogon is FranklinCovey’s vice president of Content and Senior Consultant. She is the Wall Street Journal bestselling co-author of The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, and has appeared as an expert on TODAY, MSNBC’s Your Business, Forbes.com, Inc.com, and on FastCompany.com.
She is also one of the authors of the following FranklinCovey work sessions: The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity®, Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager™, and Presentation Advantage®. Kory brings more than 25 years of business expertise, from frontline positions to an executive team member.
• Book: Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title
• Website: FranklinCovey.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to be Awesome at your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The word quality means something different in your mind |
| 0:11.0 | than it does in my mind. |
| 0:12.0 | And as a good project manager if I understand that |
| 0:14.9 | principle around language, quality, trust, any words you can think of. We call it a fat word because there's |
| 0:21.2 | so many different meanings that it's imperative that people ask questions to make sure we are on the same wavelength. |
| 0:29.7 | What do you mean by quality and you continue to drill down until you feel without being |
| 0:34.0 | obnoxious like you're on the same wavelength with the person you're talking to. |
| 0:40.1 | The critical path is a wonderful thing. The critical path will light up in a GAN chart and show you the shortest amount of time it's going to take to get those tasks done. |
| 0:50.0 | So suddenly you have this magical strategic tool that shows you how this project |
| 0:56.7 | needs to go and how you might need to put your best people on critical path items because I got to be done right then and there. |
| 1:05.9 | That's Corey Kogan. She's Franklin Covey's global practice leader for productivity and |
| 1:10.8 | the best-selling co-author of The Five Choices and has appeared as an |
| 1:14.6 | expert on today, MS NBC and many other places. Her latest book is called |
| 1:18.8 | Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager. So you'll learn one |
| 1:22.2 | why most projects fail. Two, key questions |
| 1:25.5 | to ask before starting any project and three, the five behaviors of successful unofficial project managers. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job. of successful unofficial project managers. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm Pete McKitis, this is how to be awesome at your job, and now here's Corey. |
| 1:37.2 | Corey, welcome. |
| 1:38.2 | Thanks for having me, Pete, great to be here. |
| 1:40.8 | Well, I'm excited to talk about your work project management for the unofficial project manager. |
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