On 25 Feb 2010 we had the honour of being interviewed by Samad Aidane of Guerrilla Project Management.  Samad is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 15 years of IT experience spanning Telecom, Finance, Health Care, and Government sectors on projects in U.S, Germany, Austria, and Belgium. His Guerrilla Project Management blog is the place for "conversations about the mindset that Project Managers must adopt to be able to effectively manage today’s complex projects".

Listen to the podcast and hear Samad interview Deanne.

The podcast covers the following topics :

• Her five practical steps that help project managers quickly and effectively take over a poorly performing team or a project in chaos:
  • Step 1: Get clear
  • Step 2: Agenda(s)
  • Step 3: Initial thoughts
  • Step 4: Active Listening
  • Step 5: Plan for Action

• The costs that project managers pay when they let their ego drive their behaviours
• The importance of collaboration and adaptation
• How listening is critical for building trust relationships
• Good advice for project managers on how they can quite their mind so they are mindful, present, and ready for active listening
• The importance of tone management
• Why it is so hard to kill bad projects and why organizations choose “Dead Horse Management” strategies over killing projects
• The difference between leadership and authority and why Project Managers have all the authority they need to lead their projects
• The difference between the rational half and the non-rational half of organizational life and other thoughts on change management based on big ideas from William Tate’s book “The Search for Leadership – An Organizational Perspective” 

Click here to listen to or download the podcast from the Guerilla Project Management blog.