Episode 108 –Building a Strengths-Based Project Team Manage This - The Project Management Podcast
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The podcast by project managers for project managers. Are you building a strengths-based project team? Projects are more successful when we play to the strengths of the team. Connie Plowman, co-authored a book Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams with Martha Buelt. In this episode, Connie defines the difference between a talent and a strength as she introduces the concept of a strengths-based project team.
Table of Contents
00:35 … Meet Connie
02:15 … StrengthsFinder and Strengths-Based Project Teams
03:20 … Remote Coauthoring
04:15 … Difference between Talent and Strength
06:36 … A Strengths-Based Project Team
10:12 … Benefits to Becoming a Strengths-Based Project Team
11:48 … Being Aware of Weaknesses
13:25 … The Value of Strengths-Based Project Teams
16:45 … Talent Theme Mapping
20:01 … Responding to: “That’s Not My Strength”
22:48 … Getting Started as a Strengths-Based Project Team
24:42 … Maintaining the Strengths-Based Process in a Team
27:50 … Career Advice from Connie
29:32 … Thanks to Connie
30:45 … Closing
CONNIE
PLOWMAN: ...project teams, to be strength-based, intentionally apply and
integrate their skills, experience, knowledge, their talents, their strengths,
their project management tools and techniques, everything that you bring to the
table you intentionally apply and integrate those for greater team
success.
WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome
to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. I’m Wendy Grounds, and with me in the studio
is Bill Yates. This is our bimonthly
meeting to talk about what matters to you as a professional project
manager. And we have a professional here
today; don’t we, Bill.
Meet Connie
BILL YATES: Yes, we
do. I’ve known Connie Plowman for quite
a while now. Connie and I got to know
each other when I was serving on the REP Advisory Group at the global level,
and she was in a global-level position with PMI. And she is a delight. So I’ve been looking forward to having a
conversation with her on Manage This.
And then she goes and writes a great book. So we’ll have fun talking through that
book. When I first met Connie, she was
the chief operating officer for another consulting and project management
training company. And she just had a
wealth of experience. And I’m really
looking forward to this conversation.
WENDY GROUNDS: Yeah,
I’ve been looking forward to meeting her.
BILL YATES: She’s an
award-winner as well, Wendy.
WENDY GROUNDS: Yes, I
hear so.
BILL YATES: Yeah.
WENDY GROUNDS: Talk
about that.
BILL YATES:
Yeah. So in 2016 Connie was
awarded the PMI
Eric Jenett Project Management Award of Excellence. It’s named after one of PMI’s founders, and it’s
one of the highest awards you can win with PMI.
I was delighted for her when she received that. She’s been very involved. She tends to retire and then find something
else that she has to go do. And right
now I know she’s being a guest speaker and instructor with a local
university. She’s out in Portland,
Oregon. She’s serving as executive
director for the CLIMB Center for
Advancement at Portland Community College. She just can’t step away.
WENDY GROUNDS: She’s
having way too much fun to retire. I
like that.
BILL YATES: Yup.
WENDY GROUNDS:
Connie, welcome to Manage This.
We’re so glad that you could join us today.
CONNIE PLOWMAN: Thank
you. I’m thrilled to be in your virtual
podcast studio. It looks like my dining
room. Hey, wait a minute, it is my
dining room.
WENDY GROUNDS: We’re
glad that we can see you virtually.
CONNIE PLOWMAN: Thank
you. It’s a pleasure to be here. I’ve been wanting to do this for some time.
StrengthsFinder and Strengths-Based
Project Teams
WENDY GROUNDS:
Connie, I want to start off by just asking you about this topic. We’re talking about strength-based project teams.
The podcast by project managers for project managers. Are you building a strengths-based project team? Projects are more successful when we play to the strengths of the team. Connie Plowman, co-authored a book Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams with Martha Buelt. In this episode, Connie defines the difference between a talent and a strength as she introduces the concept of a strengths-based project team.
Table of Contents
00:35 … Meet Connie
02:15 … StrengthsFinder and Strengths-Based Project Teams
03:20 … Remote Coauthoring
04:15 … Difference between Talent and Strength
06:36 … A Strengths-Based Project Team
10:12 … Benefits to Becoming a Strengths-Based Project Team
11:48 … Being Aware of Weaknesses
13:25 … The Value of Strengths-Based Project Teams
16:45 … Talent Theme Mapping
20:01 … Responding to: “That’s Not My Strength”
22:48 … Getting Started as a Strengths-Based Project Team
24:42 … Maintaining the Strengths-Based Process in a Team
27:50 … Career Advice from Connie
29:32 … Thanks to Connie
30:45 … Closing
CONNIE
PLOWMAN: ...project teams, to be strength-based, intentionally apply and
integrate their skills, experience, knowledge, their talents, their strengths,
their project management tools and techniques, everything that you bring to the
table you intentionally apply and integrate those for greater team
success.
WENDY GROUNDS: Welcome
to Manage This, the podcast by project managers for project managers. I’m Wendy Grounds, and with me in the studio
is Bill Yates. This is our bimonthly
meeting to talk about what matters to you as a professional project
manager. And we have a professional here
today; don’t we, Bill.
Meet Connie
BILL YATES: Yes, we
do. I’ve known Connie Plowman for quite
a while now. Connie and I got to know
each other when I was serving on the REP Advisory Group at the global level,
and she was in a global-level position with PMI. And she is a delight. So I’ve been looking forward to having a
conversation with her on Manage This.
And then she goes and writes a great book. So we’ll have fun talking through that
book. When I first met Connie, she was
the chief operating officer for another consulting and project management
training company. And she just had a
wealth of experience. And I’m really
looking forward to this conversation.
WENDY GROUNDS: Yeah,
I’ve been looking forward to meeting her.
BILL YATES: She’s an
award-winner as well, Wendy.
WENDY GROUNDS: Yes, I
hear so.
BILL YATES: Yeah.
WENDY GROUNDS: Talk
about that.
BILL YATES:
Yeah. So in 2016 Connie was
awarded the PMI
Eric Jenett Project Management Award of Excellence. It’s named after one of PMI’s founders, and it’s
one of the highest awards you can win with PMI.
I was delighted for her when she received that. She’s been very involved. She tends to retire and then find something
else that she has to go do. And right
now I know she’s being a guest speaker and instructor with a local
university. She’s out in Portland,
Oregon. She’s serving as executive
director for the CLIMB Center for
Advancement at Portland Community College. She just can’t step away.
WENDY GROUNDS: She’s
having way too much fun to retire. I
like that.
BILL YATES: Yup.
WENDY GROUNDS:
Connie, welcome to Manage This.
We’re so glad that you could join us today.
CONNIE PLOWMAN: Thank
you. I’m thrilled to be in your virtual
podcast studio. It looks like my dining
room. Hey, wait a minute, it is my
dining room.
WENDY GROUNDS: We’re
glad that we can see you virtually.
CONNIE PLOWMAN: Thank
you. It’s a pleasure to be here. I’ve been wanting to do this for some time.
StrengthsFinder and Strengths-Based
Project Teams
WENDY GROUNDS:
Connie, I want to start off by just asking you about this topic. We’re talking about strength-based project teams.