Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love present:
Finding Your Passion at Work: How to build a deeper connection between what we’re paid to do and what we love to do.
Downloadable Podcast

This 16 minute Podcast is presented by American Management Association (REP 1294) .

Smart managers know how to engage their employees. The best way to do that is to engage their passions and access what they care about so employees will care about their work and learn to enjoy it. Marc Cugnon and Alaina Love have devised a system to determine what drives employees passions.

The most successful project managers have passion, exhibit purpose and use their emotional intelligence to create highly engaged project teams. This presentation helps you understand the Passion Profile of your team members so that you more effectively motivate each individual. As Alaina Loves says, “The PM who utilizes these skills will deliver a significant competitive advantage to their company.” EdmontonPM

Click here to go to the podcast opportunity (MP3 download).

The podcast references Alaina Love’s article You Can Lead. But Can You Inspire? – Ten Attributes Senior Managers Need to Lead Organizations Through the Recession and its Demoralizing Consequences on Their Workforce

Published in Bloomberg Business Week Magazine December 22 2009.

Click here to go to the article. (PDF).

The podcast is based on the book of the same name, The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results

Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level. How many can you recognize? And where do you fit in?

The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business

The Connector: Born communicators, adept at negotiation and relationship-building

The Conceiver: These “intellectual acrobats” think outside the box, imagine new possibilities, and contribute to innovation

The Altruist: On the lookout to raise your organization’s profile while benefiting the world at large

Leadership development experts Alaina Love and Marc Cugnon have identified ten such “Passion Profile Archetypes,” and in The Purpose Linked Organization, you’ll learn the strengths, vulnerabilities, and proper care and feeding of them all.

Authors Love and Cugnon offer easily implementable ways to channel the power of each individual’s passions in a positive, purposeful direction. You’ll understand how to link skills, values, and passions to performance—and how doing so will bring the results your organization can’t afford to be without.

Just as important, you’ll be able to confidently assess your own purpose and passions so that your own organizational role will be as engaging, fulfilling, and productive as possible. Most employees spend more than 84,000 hours of their lives at work. When that time is personally meaningful, great things can happen, which will enrich your organization, the customers it serves, and even society as a whole.

FREE WITH YOUR PURCHASE: Exclusive access to “The Passion Profiler,” an online tool for identifying your Passion Archetypes—your individual strengths, vulnerabilities, and capacity for achievement, as well as those of every member of your organization.

This book is 233 pages. As a combined activity – reading this book, listening to the podcast, and reading the article would qualify for up to 10 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).

The NEW Category C increases the limit of PDUs allowed in a recertification cycle to 30 from the previous level of 15. Category C PDUs are an excellent way to Increase your Knowledge and Skills as a PM in your time frame.

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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This chapter, from the book, The Art of Project Management,
By Scott Berkuns is a Category C (formerly) 2 SDL opportunity.

This chapter is titled “How to Make Things Happen” and is an excerpt from Scott Berkun’s book The Art of Project Management. In this book, Scott provides lessons from his experience as a project manager at Microsoft. The second edition of this book was renamed to Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management. Both editions cover project management topics organized into three sections – Plans, Skills and Management.

In the 16 pages of this chapter, Scott gives practical advice on Management and How to Make Things Happen.

Contents of this chapter include:

1. Priorities Make Things Happen
   • Priority 1 versus everything else
   • Priorities are power
   • Be a prioritization machine
2. Things Happen When You Say No
   • Master the many ways to say no
3. Keeping It Real
4. Know the Critical Path
5. Be Relentless
6. Be Savvy
   • Guerilla tactics

“Of the 3 sections of this book – Plans, Skills and Management – I found Scott’s insight into Management issues the most useful. Scott describes the building and losing of trust.This book helped shape my focus on trust, transparency and accountability. I have seen too many teams of smart people falter when the project manager or other teams members couldn’t be trusted to complete their commitments.” EdmontonPM

Summary

• Everything can be represented in an ordered list. Most of the work of project management is correctly prioritizing things and leading the team in carrying them out.
• The three most basic ordered lists are: project goals (vision), list of features, and list of work items. They should always be in sync with each other. Each work item contributes to a feature, and each feature contributes to a goal.
• There is a bright yellow line between priority 1 work and everything else.
• Things happen when you say no. If you can’t say no, you effectively have no priorities
• The PM has to keep the team honest and keep them close to reality.
• Knowing the critical path in engineering and team processes enables efficiency.
• You must be both relentless and savvy to make things happen.

This book is 400 pages. Reading this book would qualify for up to 15 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).

The NEW Category C increases the limit of PDUs allowed in a recertification cycle to 30 from the previous level of 15. Category C PDUs are an excellent way to Increase your Knowledge and Skills as a PM in your time frame.

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

(PDF) Book Review of The Art of Project Management by Craig Murphy
(11 Pages) Book receives 5 Of 5 stars – A MUST READ.

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Purchase this book from Amazon USA – Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)

CLICK HERE for the CHAPTER of the book The Art Of Project Management

This Chapter is 18 pages. Reading this Chapter would qualify for up to 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs (formerly Category 2 SDL PDUs).