We get into the heads of senior executives, find out what’s happening, and understand what they care about. We explore psychology to discover how building a psychological contract with your senior executive can help you secure ‘permission to challenge.’
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In this #PMOwfh session we invited along the PMO Conference 2022 closing keynote speaker Andrew Whyatt-Sames. Andrew is a Executive Team Coach, Psychologist and in this session he gave us the keynote in 10 slides!
Also in this session we covered some insights from the Enterprise PMO paper (you can see more on that here); psychological contracts, "most crucial challenge for the PMO leader is to get the right balance of speed and excitement" (see the article here); commuting and Japanese culture.
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From our sponsor - Planview - take a look at the Visibility and Reporting eBook
If there is one thing the PMO does it's reporting and in this eBook there is plenty to get you thinking differently about the reports you create. We liked the ideas about different visuals and the insights into reporting for senior execs
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Week 16 of #PMOwfh - four months of PMO chat, debate, a few laughs and lots of sharing during four months of the pandemic.
There's one thing we've definitely learnt during this time - there's no limit to the subjects and themes we can choose to get into, the life of a PMO is such a varied and interesting one!
This week we're looking at the theme of "talking to senior executives". It was one suggested by one of the crew so here we are.
We were delighted to have Terry Doerscher join us from good ole Texas. Terry has loads of relatable experiences and knowledge, plus he's a really nice bloke.
He's the author of a great book - Taming Change with Portfolio Management - an excellent choice if you're working at the senior level in portfolio PMO.
The 10-in-10 session from Terry covered:
Role of the PMO from an executive perspective
Communicating project and portfolio performance
Effective portfolio governance and project sponsorship
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