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So tell me... how often do you as a project manager need to give a presentation? This could be as simple as adressing your team during a team meeting, facilitating a telephone conference with your customers, giving a formal status update to your sponsors or customers or even doing a web based meeting. If I look back at my work as a PM I probably had to do this at least two to three times every single week. And I assume that it’s very similar for you as well.

That is why I’ve gone ahead and invited Wayne Turmel (http://www.greatwebmeetings.com/) to the program today. Wayne has been teaching how you can excel at giving presentations for many years and he has published several books on the topic. The latest one is called “#PRESENTATION tweet - 140 Ways to Present with Impact”. The book is full of tweets on improving your presentations and you can find it at http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/presentationtweet01.php

We have selected 12 of these tweets for today’s interview with Wayne and he goes much, MUCH deeper into each topic.

Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Wayne’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with this book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.

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We are continuing The PM Podcast Leadership Series. This is the 2nd interview that I did with Thomas Juli (www.thomasjuli.com and http://thomasjuli.wordpress.com), author of “Leadership Principles for Project Success”. Last week, we learned about his 5 principles and how they work. But wouldn’t it be more interesting if he also told you HOW you actually implement these principles on your project? That’s what we’ll do in this interview.

The problem is of course, that we cannot go through a complete project implementation process and discuss all those leadership principles in a 20 minute interview. That’s why we decided to focus just on initiating a project.

Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Thomas’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with Thomas Juli’s book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.

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Today we're continuing our series of leadership podcasts with another fantastic author interview. In our last 2 episodes you heard me discuss project leadership with Rick Valerga author of “The Cure For The Common Project” and in this and the next episode you will get to hear about five “Leadership Principles for Project Success” from Thomas Juli.

Thomas and I begin with a definition of leadership, then we explore the 5 principles, from where we move on to some hands on tips in regards to skills you need to be a leader and actions you can apply to work more as a leader on your projects.

Thomas Juli (www.thomasjuli.com and http://thomasjuli.wordpress.com), is the author of  the book “Leadership Principles for Project Success” which was published by CRC Press last August. He is the founder and managing director of his own consulting business “Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners”, a professional service organization for innovative empowerment, consulting and interim management in the areas of governance, leadership, project and operational management.  Their unique consultative approach is rooted in the mission statement: „Empowering people and organizations through leadership”

Of course, we are also doing a book giveaway and we have 2 copies of Thomas’s book. As always: 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners and one copy is raffled off via our facebook fan page. So go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, find the post with Thomas Juli’s book giveaway and leave a comment to participate in the giveaway.

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Last week we launched our Project Leadership Series and interviewed author Rick Valerga, author of “The Cure For The Common Project”. In this interview, you got introduced to the 5 Core Themes from his book. As a refresher, they are: Expectation management, Ownership, Winning, Narrative, and Eliciting the best.

In today’s installment of our leadership podcasts series we want to go ahead and put one of these leadership principles into action. Rick and I decided to focus on “Expectation Management” to show you how a project leader approaches this important task.

Remember...if you would like to win a copy of Rick Valerga’s “The Cure For The Common Project” then you are in luck, because we are giving away 2 copies. One copy (as always) is reserved for our premium listeners and the 2nd copy can be grabbed by anyone. To participate in this giveaway, please go go www.facebook.com/pmpodcast, look for the book giveaway and simply leave a comment.