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In this new episode of Project Shrink my guest is Maria Gajewski of the Never The Same River Twice blog. She writes about personal and organizational change. Personal development and change management. You know, the people stuff.
As I am trying to infuse Project Management with some much needed “human stuff” a chat with her would be very good idea: the intersection between personal development, change management and project management.
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The questions we address are:
- What does personal development have to do with changes in organizations?
- Why is it useless to plan for anything longer than a year?
- How can anyone bootstrap his own personal change?
- and more
You can view the video below… or follow this link to YouTube.com.
Tell us what you think about the intersection between personal development, change management and project management.
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Learn how to change yourself. Then learn how to teach others to change themselves. Right?
Interesting concept but not practical from the standpoint of financing and innovation – examples include projects of large upfront capital expediture (energy supply, health care facilities, infrastructure, conservation, scientific and medical research) where you need to know where you are going to be 15 or 20 years from now. Hospitals and hydro electric dams do not get built in a year. Nevertheless, period review of one's long range plans is a good way to rationalize your objectives.
Bas,
Great interview. I'm also looking for more content on the lighter side of project management, so I linked to this post from LouisvillePM. Keep em coming, please.
-chris
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Bas, thank you for the interview. It was fun!
@Howard Mitchell – You are correct that capital projects and long term research *definitely* require tight budgets, time frames, etc. However, I doubt any of them actually go “according to plan” all the way through. Timelines (and definitely budgets
) are always getting adjusted. Staying agile, as Bas teaches, is vital to successfully managing any project.
Great discussion, as usual, Bas! Some managers don't really grasp the fact that change has to be embraced by individuals and we can all learn from Maria's observations. Even in these hard economic times (possibly especially now), we need to encourage our team and organizational members to advance their own personal and professional development. When there are tough decisions to be made (think: change) that's not the time to start thinking about how to manage change. Having as many people as possible equipped with how to cope with change and keeping them in the decision making process (as appropriate) will make reacting to the fast pace of change that much easier.
I also like her concept of not planning beyond a year. I'm glad I put off doing that!
thanks everyone for your comments!
basically the goals itself (market share, innovation) should guide the long term, and even will focus as a culture maker (or breaker). But also straight execution with continuous evaluation/adaption achieves the same thing (judgments have to be made against something… yep, the original vision/goal)
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changing myself to get well equipped for tomorrow shine.