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In the last episode, Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP and Cornelius Fichtner, PMP explored how to keep your cool when you are dealing with Jerks at work. However, there is an increasing focus on project managers in regards that they are now expected to become project leaders. This means that you not only have a lot more responsibility but you also will need different skills. So we are now going to jump a lot deeper into this subject and look at this topic from the point of view of a project leader.

We look at how you handle jerks on your projects in such a way that everyone can walk away feeling good.

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This episode is a few days late because I have been on a week long business trip. I am now all relaxed and ready to once again face my colleagues at work. But of course, in the first meeting that I have to attend today, there is the (grrrr) jerk who every time manages to push my buttons. If there were only a way to deal with this guy!

Well… we have all been in this situation on our projects and luckily, there is help there is help just around the corner. And that help comes to you in the form of Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP. She has been a regular guest here on the Podcast and because all of us know a jerk or two (or have sometimes been a jerk ourselves) Margaret is going to open up her resource toolkit for us and help us deal with the jerk on our project team.

We also take a quick look at Margaret’s two blogs and we announce the winners of two copies of the PM Lecture “Dealing with Difficult People”.

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This is just a quick note to let you know that Episode 106 will be a few days late. I am going on a business trip to Paso Robles, CA, so I won't be able to publish the new episode on the 11th. Instead it will be released on the 14th.

But the good news is that because of this we are extending the deadline for the promotional giveaway of  the PM Lectures "Dealing with Difficult People " until Monday 13th. All you have to do to participate is to go to https://www.pducast.com and sign up to the newsletter. Use the sign up for that you see in the left hand navigation. The prize is worth $60 and 2 PDUs. And just for participating in the contest you will receive a 10% discount coupon.

Oh and we also have a new sponsor, so I want to say thank you to Boeing for supporting us!

Until next time!
Cornelius Fichtner, PMP

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In this Overtime episode we welcome back Gene Dutz to discuss teleconferencing hard tools. We look at Webex, Adobe Connect Pro and Dimdim. The last one, by the way, is free. Gene introduces us to the features of these services and how to use them effectively on your project. For instance did you know that you can use these services to record your teleconference so that team members who were absend can listen to the conference later on and catch up?

This is just one of the many tricks he has up his sleeve to help you use these tools to the fullest.