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Wrapping Your Arms Around Tough Conversations

July 21, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Wrapping Your Arms Around Tough Conversations Whether it's in our professional or personal life, there are certain conversations we don't look forward to, where we need to get our message across in a way that helps people change their behaviours or how they think. Borrowing the language of Kerry Patterson, these are Crucial Conversations. In...

Knowing Your Thinking Preferences

July 20, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Knowing Your Thinking Preferences Einstein is quoted as saying that we can’t solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them. That’s because we have thinking preferences that often drive how we behave. More importantly, we have zones of thinking discomfort that impact our behaviour. Knowing how we think is vital in a project...

Making Meetings Work

July 20, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Making Meetings Work The topic of meetings is a reoccurring one in project management. We're going to look at meetings from a different perspective than you may be used to, so think back to a recent meeting you attended (or led) as we work through some one-word questions: Why? What? Who? and How? Bill Russell,...

Stay Still and Listen

May 30, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Stay Still and Listen It can be challenging to listen and truly hear what is being said. When listening, our minds wander, we get distracted, and we aren't listening anymore during that time. Neurologically speaking, our brains can really only do one thing at a time, but we're great at zoning in and out of...

Trust is Tricky

May 30, 2022
Ela Stilwell
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Trust is Tricky No matter where you end up in project management, you'll deal with people. Whether you work with investors and funding applications or the CEO and the planning and accountability end of a project, there's a human element involved. We started our podcast, Messy but Essential: the people side of project Management - and this...