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People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast

Welcome to the People and Projects Podcast, where we provide interviews and insights to help you lead people and deliver projects. Since 2009, this show is brought to you by speaker, author, and executive coach Andy Kaufman. If you're looking for insights on project management, leadership, and how AI influences both of those, you've come to the right place! And if you hold a project management certification, you can even earn free PDUs for listening!

PPP 204 | How to Build an A Team, with author Whitney Johnson

44 mins; July 06, 2018

PPP 203 | (Video) What I Learned This Week (You'll Never Experience Meetings the Same Once You Know About It)

6 mins; June 10, 2018

PPP 202 | How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, with author Morten Hansen

48 mins; May 29, 2018

PPP 201 | (Video) What I Learned From a Podcast Listener This Week About Coffee Every Friday (and Strengths, from Marcus Buckingham)

6 mins; April 21, 2018

PPP 200 | Why Too Many Project Managers Are Dying for a Paycheck--And What You Can Do About It, with Jeffrey Pfeffer

46 mins; April 16, 2018

PPP 199 | (Video) What I Learned This Week About Convenience

11 mins; April 11, 2018

PPP 198 | How to Grow Leaders, from Chief Weed Puller (and author) Jeff McManus

32 mins; April 03, 2018

PPP 197 | The Perfect Time for Meetings, Taking the Certification Exam, and Just About Everything Else, with author Daniel Pink

39 mins; March 20, 2018

PPP 196 | The Most Important Talent Project Managers Need to Succeed, with author Ulrich Boser

54 mins; February 28, 2018

PPP 195 | How to Have a Conversation With That Stakeholder Who Drives You Crazy (And Anyone Else), with NPR Host Celeste Headlee

43 mins; February 18, 2018

PPP 194 | How to Get to Yes Without Manipulating, with author and influence expert Tim David

60 hours 31 mins; February 10, 2018

PPP 193 | How To Improve Relationships in the Workplace, with Todd Davis, Chief People Officer at FranklinCovey

40 mins; January 25, 2018

PPP 192 | (Video) Learning About the Business and the Power of Rapport: What Susanne Madsen Learned This Week

11 mins; December 19, 2017

PPP 191 | (Video) Blend In and Play It Safe? Or Take the Risk of Standing Out? What I Learned This Week

5 mins; November 14, 2017

PPP 190 | (Video) Two Lessons About Where to Focus and Gaining Buy-in: What I Learned This Week

4 mins; November 11, 2017

PPP 189 | How to Tame Your Nerves Before the Big Meeting, Presentation, or Exam, with Harvard Business Review Senior Editor Dan McGinn

49 mins; November 08, 2017

PPP 188 | 10 Principles for Leaders of Any Age to Stay Vital, Happy, and Sharp, with Brain Rules author Dr. John Medina

52 mins; October 19, 2017

PPP 187 | (Video) What You Need to Know About PMOs: Today and In The Future, with Peter Taylor, Bill Dow, and Hussain Bandukwala

41 mins; September 28, 2017

PPP 186 | (Video) Two Words You Need to Say This Week. What I Learned This Week

4 mins; September 22, 2017

PPP 185 | Leadership and Self-Deception, with Mitch Warner from The Arbinger Institute

59 mins; August 28, 2017

PPP 184 | How Leaders Can Get Their Head Above Water When Drowning in Email and Commitments, with Steve Kahle

38 mins; August 10, 2017

PPP 183 | (Video) Everything's a Project and Every Project Is a Story. What I Learned This Week

11 mins; August 05, 2017

PPP 182 | Project Management Expert Interview with Dr. Mike Clayton

49 mins; July 19, 2017

PPP 181 | (Video) On Ending Well and Self-Deception. What I Learned This Week

6 mins; July 08, 2017

PPP 180 | The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything Project Managers Know About Success is (Mostly) Wrong

61 hours 48 mins; June 30, 2017

PPP 179 | Tough Conversations, Uncomfortable Challenges, Delivering Bad News: How Successful Leaders Reach Outside Their Comfort Zones

55 mins; June 16, 2017

PPP 178 | How to Find and Work With a Mentor, with Ken Blanchard

42 mins; May 22, 2017

PPP 177 | Why We Can't Look Away From Our Devices, with author Adam Alter

45 mins; May 15, 2017

PPP 176 | (Video) Why Leaders Need to Get Lost! What I Learned This Week

3 mins; May 04, 2017

PPP 175 | (Video) What Would You Advise a Friend to Do? Lessons for Project Managers to Make Better Decisions

9 mins; April 29, 2017

PPP 174 | 5 Strategies for Staying Productive and Happy in an Age of Shiny Objects, with author Amy Blankson

49 mins; April 19, 2017

PPP 173 | Why Playing It Safe is Holding You Back, with Extreme You author Sarah Robb O'Hagan

43 mins; April 09, 2017

PPP 172 | (Video) What You Need to Know About Critical Path

21 mins; April 03, 2017

PPP 171 | (Video) All the Good Stuff For Leaders Is On The Other Side of Fear

4 mins; March 25, 2017

PPP 170 | (Video) Ideas for When You Sense Your Confidence Slipping

7 mins; March 17, 2017

PPP 169 | But What If They're Bingeing on NetFlix? How to Lead a Virtual Team, with Emily Luijbregts

60 hours 31 mins; March 08, 2017

PPP 168 | (Video) Put Your Phone Down and Get Back to Your Life--An Idea For Managing Your Digital Diet

2 mins; March 03, 2017

PPP 167 | (Video) Why Project Managers Might Just Need to Call an Audible

3 mins; February 24, 2017

PPP 166 | What Project Managers Can Learn from Adele and Beyoncé

56 mins; February 17, 2017

PPP 165 | Why MacGyver Would Be a Great (and Happy) Project Manager

46 mins; February 07, 2017

PPP 164 | What Leaders Need to Know About Reducing Stress, with authors of Nick Petrie and Derek Roger

54 mins; February 04, 2017

PPP 163 | (Video) What I Learned This Week About What To Do Long Before You Lose Your Job

2 mins; January 27, 2017

PPP 162 | How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For, with Jonathan Raymond

51 mins; January 20, 2017

PPP 161 | What I Learned This Week About Influencing Through Questions

6 mins; January 14, 2017

PPP 160 | What I Learned About Stress This Week

6 mins; January 06, 2017

PPP 159 | The Most Important Lesson You Learned Last Year

39 mins; December 29, 2016

PPP 158 | What You Need to Know to Manage Millennials, with author Lee Caraher

55 mins; December 22, 2016

PPP 157 | A Revolutionary Way for Project Managers to Influence and Persuade, with Dr. Robert Cialdini

53 mins; November 23, 2016

PPP 156 | The Messy Project Manager, with author Tim Harford

43 mins; November 08, 2016

PPP 155 | How to Keep Your Project Stakeholders Engaged, with Dr. Lynda Bourne

48 mins; October 11, 2016

PPP 154 | What Project Managers Need to Know About Office Politics, with Dan Rust, author of Workplace Poker

59 mins; September 02, 2016

PPP 153 | The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Project Leader, with Best-Selling Author Jim Kouzes

49 mins; August 26, 2016

PPP 152 | How Scrum Helps You Do Twice the Work in Half the Time, with Scrum inventor and co-creator Jeff Sutherland

41 mins; July 20, 2016

PPP 151 | How to Deal With Bullies on Project Teams, with Paul Pelletier, LL.B., PMP

52 mins; June 09, 2016

PPP 150 | Why Project Managers Need to Say Less and Ask More To Be Better Leaders, with Michael Bungay Stanier

45 mins; May 16, 2016

PPP 149 | (Video) Project Management is a Performance--And Why That Idea Matters, with author Cathy Salit

59 mins; April 26, 2016

PPP 148 | Negotiating the Conflicts That Suck the Life Out of You, with Harvard's Daniel Shapiro

50 mins; April 19, 2016

PPP 147 | Why Your Technical Project Management Skills Aren't Enough, with guest Dave Wakeman

40 mins; April 11, 2016

PPP 146 | How to Tell Someone They Have Body Odor (and Other Tricky Culture Situations), with Dr. Tom Verghese

42 mins; April 01, 2016

PPP 145 | Career Success Hacks for Project Managers, with Bruce Harpham

27 mins; March 23, 2016

PPP 144 | 4 Rules to Help Project Managers Focus in a Distracted World, with Cal Newport

32 mins; February 13, 2016

PPP 143 | How to Deal With the Irrational and Impossible People on Your Projects, with Mark Goulston

52 mins; January 31, 2016

PPP 142 | How to Confidently Rise to the Most Daunting Challenges, with Amy Cuddy

38 mins; January 16, 2016

PPP 141 | How Project Managers Can Make Better Decisions: Year-End Episode

60 hours 6 mins; December 22, 2015

PPP 140 | Tom Rath Goes to the Movies (and Why You Should Too!)

27 mins; November 21, 2015

PPP 139 | The Real Reason Why Project Managers and Their Teams Win, with author Fred Kiel

34 mins; November 13, 2015

PPP 138 | Eating Frogs and Throwing Skunks on the Table: The People Side of Project Management

56 mins; October 30, 2015

PPP 137 | How Project Managers Can Invest Their Time Like Money, with Elizabeth Grace Saunders

42 mins; October 17, 2015

PPP 136 | What Science Says About the Happy Project Manager, with Michelle Gielen

41 mins; October 01, 2015

PPP 135 | Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, with Gretchen Rubin

41 mins; August 27, 2015

PPP 134 | How Project Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning, with author Scott Mautz

39 mins; July 13, 2015

PPP 133 | The Most Important Four Seconds for Project Managers, with author Peter Bregman

29 mins; May 26, 2015

PPP 132 | Energizing the Burned Out Project Manager, with author Tom Rath

35 mins; May 04, 2015

PPP 131 | Honoring a Project Management Legacy, with Max Wideman

36 mins; April 16, 2015

PPP 130 | Why Leadership Training Isn't Preparing You to Lead (and What To Do About It), with author Herminia Ibarra

28 mins; March 23, 2015

PPP 129 | Less Panic and More Productivity for Project Managers, with author Kory Kogon

48 mins; March 04, 2015

PPP 128 | How Project Managers Become Project Leaders, with author Susanne Madsen

37 mins; February 07, 2015

PPP 127 | How to Stop Talking About Vision and Actually Create One, with author Rob-Jan de Jong

47 mins; January 18, 2015

PPP 126 | The Most Important Lesson You Learned Last Year

31 mins; December 30, 2014

PPP 125 | Why Project Managers Who Learn Faster Beat Those Who Know More, with guest Liz Wiseman

44 mins; December 19, 2014

PPP 124 | How Adam Smith Can Make You a Better Project Manager, with guest Russ Roberts

49 mins; November 15, 2014

PPP 123 | How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done, with Procrastination Expert Piers Steel

48 mins; October 22, 2014

PPP 122 | Smart Ways to Accelerate Your Success as a Project Manager, with author Shane Snow

42 mins; September 19, 2014

PPP 121 | We're Not Family. But Free Agency Doesn't Work. How to Have Career Discussions with Your Team, with Ben Casnocha

36 mins; September 09, 2014

PPP 120 | Mentoring for Project Managers, with Mark Goulston

51 mins; August 21, 2014

PPP 119 | How to Be a More Influential Project Manager, with Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP, PMI-RMP, and PMI Fellow

34 mins; August 20, 2014

PPP 118 | The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights, With Dr. Gary Klein

45 mins; August 07, 2014

PPP 117 | People and Projects Podcast Webinar Replay: Coach Cast and Jim Johnson Interview

53 mins; July 23, 2014

PPP 116 | Why Projects Fail (and How We Can Fix That), with Jim Johnson from The Standish Group

27 mins; July 10, 2014

PPP 115 | Hire the Younger or Older Project Manager? Does Age Matter?

7 mins; June 27, 2014

PPP 114 | People and Projects Podcast Webinar Replay: Power Cues and Invisibles

55 mins; June 23, 2014

PPP 113 | The Invisible Project Manager (Who Loves Their Job), with author David Zweig

53 mins; June 11, 2014

PPP 112 | How to Read Your Stakeholder's Mind, with Dr. Nick Morgan

37 mins; June 04, 2014

PPP 111 | When Consultants are the Problem, Not the Solution

37 mins; May 02, 2014

PPP 110 | How to Get Your Ideas to Catch On, with author Jonah Berger

34 mins; April 23, 2014

PPP 109 | The Funny Thing About Project Management

45 mins; April 01, 2014

PPP 108 | How Project Managers Can Deal With Stupid Feedback

40 mins; March 04, 2014

PPP 107 | Negotiating Skills for Project Managers

23 mins; February 06, 2014

PPP 106 | How to Fuel the Effective Project Manager

37 mins; January 02, 2014

PPP 105 | Influencing the Impossible Stakeholder, with author Donny Ebenstein

35 mins; December 12, 2013

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