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PMP Coaching Class Starting on May 23 and 24

We are excited to announce that registration for TWO PM StudyCoach Live Online Coaching Classes is now open. Sign up today and let Kevin Reilly, PMP be your coach and guide you in your studies towards PMP Exam success.

The PM StudyCoach Live is a self-study course that combines recorded training materials with live, online coaching calls: You study the recorded materials on your own time and then join the class for a weekly call. In each call we help you get into the PMI mindset, discuss concepts essential for the exam, review your study assignments and leave lots and lots of room to answer all of your questions. Click here for all the class details...

We have two classes starting for you this month. The first live coaching call is scheduled for Wednesday, May 23rd at 7pm PST and Thursday, May 24th at 7 pm EST respectively, and then each Wednesday/Thursday for 10 weeks after that. So let Kevin's experience guide you on the way!

However, we only accept 15 students for each class!

By limiting class size we can ensure that everyone gets the attention they deserve. So hurry and get your seat today. This is especially important because we have a three-tiered pricing structure, so the sooner you register the less you pay. Here are the prices:

Tier 1: First 5 students to register: $599.00
Tier 2: Next 5 students to register: $624.00
Tier 3: Next 5 students to register: $649.00

Please click here to register and place your order...

Don't wait! This class is for you if...

...you want to prepare for the PMP Exam using self-study
...you can commit to 90 minutes of studying every day
...you want access to a coach helping you in weekly coaching sessions
...you are available on Wednesday evenings at 7pm PST (California timezone) or Thursday evenings at 7pm EST (New York time zone) for the live calls

Do you have any questions about this class? Please click here for The PM StudyCoach Live details... or simply reply to this message and we will give you an answer.

Kevin is looking forward to coaching you and helping you achieve your PMP certification..

Until Next Time,
Kevin Reilly, PMP Head Coach	Cornelius Fichtner, PMP President, OSP International LLC

Episode 213: Unleash Your Project Management Potential

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This episode is sponsored by The PMP Exam Simulator:

Would you like to become the best project manager possible? Yes? Did you know that it takes just six steps to reach your Project Management and leadership goals! All you need is to follow the advice that Susanne Madsen (http://www.susannemadsen.co.uk) outlines in her book The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential.

The advice she gives is based on her experience as a coach and mentor. Susanne Madsen offers a method designed to help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve—and then assists you in achieving those goals, like:

Effectively managing a demanding workload
Leading and motivating a team
Building effective relationships with senior stakeholders
Managing risks, issues, and changes to scope
Delegating effectively

And in our discussion today, we are going to start you off on this journey by looking at four areas to consider: We have to begin with the end in mind (both for your career as well as on any project you manage), we look at the difference between leadership and management (with a strong focus on people rather than tasks), the importance of effective time management and delegation, and how to stay motivated to progress personally and professionally on such a journey by taking action and not procrastinating.

Episode 211: Project Management for Non-Project Managers

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This episode is sponsored by The PDU Podcast:

Jack Ferraro, PMP The projects that you and I manage are crucial to implement change within our organizations. To succeed, we routinely depend on the functional managers - the person who runs the department or division, who resolves day-to-day operational issues, and who is responsible for ensuring that the project team has the resources it needs and keeps its goals aligned with the company’s overall strategy and vision.

Unfortunately, there are only few functional managers who speak our language or even have firm grasp on the most fundamental of project processes. Too often, this knowledge gap leads to poor communications, conflict, schedule delays, cost overruns and lost business opportunity.

And who gets the blame? Yup... we do.

To help bridge this gap we are interviewing Jack Ferraro, PMP (www.myprojectadvisor.com) who wrote the book “Project Management for Non-Project Managers”. We discuss the many ways in which functional managers can get involved in project success and we also discuss the four key project management skills that any functional manager needs:

Articulating the real customer need and business case
Staying focused on project deliverables
Understanding your key dependencies
Being proactive about project risk.

Episode 210: Project Management Templates Recommendation

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There is one question that I get regularly asked from podcast listeners, and that is “Can you recommend any good project management templates?” Of course I can.

Over the years the following two collection of PM Templates have become my favorite:
PM Templates from Method123 at www.pm-podcast.com/method123
PM Templates from The Template Collective at www.pm-podcast.com/collective

In this video I show you what they have to offer and we open up a couple of examples from both products.

Please note that The PM Podcast is a compensated affiliate of both Method123 and The Template Collective. If you click and then buy their templates we will earn a commission, with which I will buy a pizza and that will keep my enthusiasm up to continue producing great podcast episodes for you.

Episode 209: The Accidental Project Manager (or How to Save a Failed Project as Your First Assignment)

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This episode is sponsored by The PDU Podcast:

Today we welcome back Jeff Furman, PMP - the author of The Project Management Answer Book. In this second interview with him we learn how Jeff became a project manager and how he dealt with the fact that the first project ever assigned to him had previously failed and it now fell to him to save the day.

Jeff’s story is simply a great and inspirational tale of (for once) something going right in our profession. It shows how we as PMs can motivate people to do things right, if we can speak to the needs of our customers and then deliver on our promise.