The PMI Salary Survey: What It Says and How to Use It
Project Management Institute
January 04, 2024
Results from PMI’s latest salary survey reveal that PMP certification holders earn higher median salaries than non-PMP certified professionals. But the newly released 13th edition of the survey explores the salary landscape in much greater depth. In this post, Lenka Pincot shares the survey’s most important findings and offers insights into how you can use the survey to gain a competitive edge.
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Tags: Careers, Project Management
Let’s Direct our Potential for Creating Something Good and Useful! Interview with Lenka Pincot, PMP
PM World Journal
October 10, 2023
Interview about the career path from Analyst to the Chief of Staff to the CEO of the Project Management Institute - the leading authority in project management.
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Tags: Careers, Leadership, Project Management
How to Decide Where to Take the PMP Exam
Project Management Institute
October 03, 2023
Ready to take your Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam? PMP certification is the global gold standard for project professionals, helping you work smarter, earn more, and capitalize on a wider range of job opportunities. But before you dive into the PMP exam, you have a decision to make: take it online, or go to a test center? In this post, Lenka Pincot helps you weigh the pros and cons so you can make the best decision for you.
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Agile transformation: 3 obstacles and how to overcome them
The Enterprises Project
April 19, 2023
This article talks about obstacles to agile transformation based on the direct author's experience.
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Tags: Agile, Change Management, Culture
International Women’s Day: Celebrating the Women of Project Management Institute
Project Management Institute
March 07, 2023
Blog post in the form of an interview, sharing experience of a female leader.
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Tags: Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership
Transparency as part of agile culture
LinkedIn
November 14, 2022
One pillar of an agile organization culture is transparency. But what is it really? Can we tick it off by putting documents on a shared drive and make anyone free to dig in? Or by putting information on a board where everyone can find it (if they know what to look for… )? That does not seem to be enough.
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Tags: Culture, Agile, Change Management
Interview With Agile Transformation Master Lenka Pincot
AppVerticals
September 01, 2022
With more than 20 years of international and multi-industry experience, Lenka started her career as a management consulting analyst to later become organization-wide transformation leader focused on the agile way of working and increasing customer value by use of digital technologies.
Her core expertise is aligning business and IT strategies to deliver long-term impact and enhance organizational response-ability. She has outstanding experience in driving digital transformation, implementing new technologies, promoting agile methods and process automation to achieve sustainable and foreseeable value for customers.
While working in different role capacities, be it a transformation leader, business leader, or management consultant, her goal remains to achieve measurable outcomes.
Without any more delay, we would start with her interview to get more insights into her valuable experience.
Now without any delays let’s get started with the interview.
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Tags: Agile, Culture, Digital Transformation
Dare to chase your career dreams
LinkedIn
July 09, 2022
Interestingly enough, when I'm approached by men to provide a mentoring session, their most frequent questions are about practical aspects and “how to” of strategic management, innovation and leadership. It is sad that despite increasing representation of women in leadership positions, women still experience the need to put extra effort to be recognized and get access to career opportunities. So here we go:
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Essential toolkit of an agile transformation leader
www.projectcubicle.com
March 21, 2022
Large organization transformation that requires changes on several fronts is indeed hard to manage. Mostly because the company under the transformation does not stay still until all the changes really happen. The difficulty comes from trying to keep 3 to 5 years consistent change effort while the company external environment constantly creates new challenges and calls for adjustments. It is worth noticing that the world around us is not slowing down, rather on the contrary.
In a disruptive business environment, agile transformation is typically just one of several strategically important initiatives that are executed simultaneously. Consequently, agile transformation leadership team deals with overloaded businesses teams that are supposed to undergo significant changes and at the same time to navigate in the maze of top priorities and pressing issues of the business as usual.
The key demand on the transformation leadership is handling the risk of losing change momentum while facing the challenge described above. What is the best way to achieve success? Change methodology or agile scaling framework plays an important part in the process, but let’s look closer at the capabilities that we look for in people involved in leading the transformation. Because change is hard for everyone and we naturally tend to care of the ones who are going through the change, but how about the change leaders? Who looks after them while some of the hardest part of agile transformation lies on their shoulders? They need to stay resilient and be ready to pivot any time.
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Leadership
Stakeholders: How to work together to make it a success?
LinkedIn
February 28, 2021
Every project has a varying number of stakeholders—sometimes too many. Trying to meet all of their requirements is often an impossible mission. Nevertheless, the project manager must be able to deal with all stakeholder situations smoothly, because the evaluation of the project’s success often lies in the hands of the stakeholders—and the people they represent.
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Managing Changing Priorities With Agile
projectmanagement.com
May 07, 2020
When crisis strikes, the first thing we’d like to do is quickly re-prioritize, re-assign resources to the activities that provide the most value under the current circumstances and materialize the benefits as soon as possible. While this may be a distant dream for some organizations, it is far more realistic for those that have gone through at least the early stages of agile transformation.
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How to achieve benefits from agile transformation
LinkedIn
January 06, 2020
The general expectation from conducting an agile transformation is strengthening your ability to quickly adapt and respond on an enterprise-wide level. If a company wants to get more efficient, there are several related topics that need to be addressed simultaneously—and they go far beyond the way of work of individual agile teams (company culture, strategic skill set development, performance management systems, efficient alignment of multiple teams accessing the same technological platforms and many more).
Let's look at the common expected benefits of agile transformation and the ways how to get there.
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The Future of Project Work: Moving Past Office-Centric Models
Project Management Institute
March 21, 2024
At the PMXPO 2024 virtual event, now available on demand, Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO and the executive leader for the PMI Thought Leadership team, shares insights from the Pulse of the Profession report, 15th Edition, "The Future of Project Work: Moving Past Office-Centric Models.”
Lenka talks about the future of project work and trends to prepare for in 2024 to help the participants:
- Identify and analyze key trends in relation to the future of project work;
- Gain actionable knowledge and strategic insights to proactively prepare for emerging trends; and
- Foster adaptability and informed decision-making within the evolving professional landscape.
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Tags: Agile, Future of Work, Project Management
Perpetual transformation: how to thrive when transformation became a new norm?
PMI Ukraine Chapter
September 30, 2023
With the steep rise of emerging technologies, especially generative AI, the perpetual transformation became a new norm. Organizations need to evolve constantly to keep the pace, the call for organizational agility can’t get any stronger. Lenka will share PMI insight and her experience of impact of transformation on the project management profession and how to get ready for the future challenges.
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Project Management Empowering Growth in Digital Era
CIEP, China
April 16, 2023
Keynote speech on the PMI Forum that was part of the 21st Annual conferences of international professionals exchange in Shenzhen, China.
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Personal brand as career accelerator
PMI UK
March 08, 2023
Keynote on the International Women's Day conference organized by PMI UK. Talking about how to build a personal brand and how can such brand help you progress in your career.
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Tags: Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership, Personal Branding
Innovation by Empowerment: when technology and culture get together
The Teal Network
March 02, 2023
Session provided during the annual 2023 Teal around the world conference
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation
Talent management shaped by digital-savvy customers
Retail banking summit
February 22, 2023
Speech about talent management influenced by development of technology
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Tags: Agile, Culture, Digital Transformation
Decentralized innovation: The future of employee empowerment culture?
Amistat group
February 17, 2023
Keynote delivered as part of the annual OPEX conference
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Introducing Citizen Development in an organization
PMI Tbilisi chapter
December 22, 2022
Keynote for PMI Tbilisi annual assembly meeting to talk about low-code/no-code technology and how to introduce citizen development in an organization.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Agile
Get Your Mindset Future-Ready: How to Create Workforce and Operational Agility
Informaconnect
December 08, 2022
Guide to getting yourself oriented in the current challenges of banking impacted by technologies. You will have the opportunity to test your own mindset, as well as learn how to work with organization culture to make it the driver for digital transformation.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Change Management
Supercharging agility through low-code/no-code: creating more room for innovation
Market force live
November 30, 2022
Interview about how is low-code/no-code enabling decentralized innovation and removing bottlenecks in organizations
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Tags: Agile, Emerging Technology, Innovation
OUT OF THE BOX IDEAS FOR CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
Conferenzia World
November 10, 2022
Keynote about low-code/no-code application as a key for open innovation that can significantly improve operational efficiency.
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation
Agile transformation: How to deal with a demanding change using the SWITCH
Symphera s.r.o.
September 22, 2022
Agile transformation is primarily a change in culture and mindset, but as such cannot be done without changes in the company’s management system, team settings, processes and technologies and IT architecture. The high complexity of interconnected changes is a great challenge on its own, yet if it is combined with a long period of needed time and the need to constantly respond to changing conditions, because customers and competitors do not wait for us to transform. How to keep direction and energy despite the difficulty or agile transformation?
Lenka Pincot shares her practical experience on how to manage large-scale organizational changes using proven methods such as Objectives and Key Results (OKR), but she will also present lesser-known approaches, such as the Value-Based roadmap or Destination Postcard. She will show us an internally created program for Agile Leadership development and will demonstrate how to use such program to identify and remove systemic barriers to transformation. At the end, Lenka will moderate an interactive mini-workshop, where you will have the opportunity to try out how to deal with a demanding change using the SWITCH change management method.
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Importance of Agile Leadership
www.meetupy.cz
May 05, 2022
I was invited to students meetup platform to introduce impact of emerging technologies on banking industry and importance of agile leadership to build hyper-awareness and ability to act.
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Culture as driver for Digital Transformation
itSMF
January 21, 2022
Keynote on the itSMF konference. How to work with culture that will drive digital transformation. Sharing experience from agile transformation.
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Tags: Agile, Culture, Digital Transformation
How to ignite community passion for Sustainability
Project Management Institute
November 12, 2021
Experience sharing of PMI Czech Republic approach to introducing topic of Sustainability and Green Project Management
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Tags: Leadership, Social, Sustainability
Team performance - importance of Soft Skills!
eFocus
October 20, 2021
Exploring importance of soft skills of leaders in direct connection to high performing teams
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Tags: Culture, Digital Transformation, Leadership
Agile and traditional culture under one roof
ISACA
October 19, 2021
Keynote on how to transition from traditional to agile culture during the company transformation.
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Learning and growing from agile teams to agile organization. How to become an agile enterprise?
Empowering Agile
April 22, 2021
Keynote on the Agility & Innovation in Financial Services konference
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Innovation
How to ignite interest in Sustainability
PMI Bulgaria
January 12, 2021
Presentation about working with volunteers passionate about sustainability and how to ignite the interest across wider communities.
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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Sustainability
Leading AI-driven Business Transformation: Are You In?
Project Management Institute
November 16, 2023
C-level executives are experiencing significant pressure to transform their businesses to leverage the unprecedented potential of AI technologies. Our guests will discuss and share recommendations and practices to help executive leaders successfully implement AI-driven transformations in their organizations.
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Tags: Agile, AI, Digital Transformation
Impact of geopolitical uncertainty on industries and economy
PMOGA India Hub
October 14, 2023
Geopolitical shifts and rising uncertainty in the global operating environment are significantly affecting industry, projects and the global economy. Inflation, recession, war, climate change, trade disputes, pandemics, energy access, industrial espionage, cyber attacks have a far reaching impact on the economy. In most economies, the priority remains achieving sustained disinflation while ensuring financial stability.
To discuss these and more, we have renowned international experts, Ambassador Rahul Chhabra (Former Secretary, Economic Affairs at Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India) and Lenka Pincot, Chief of Staff to the CEO of Project Management Institute.
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Tags: Project Management, Risk Management, Sustainability
Implementing ai in project management – global expert panel discussion
greyfly ai
September 18, 2023
Global Project Management experts discussed the impact of project and data maturity on implementing AI in project management. Furthermore, we heard how established project processes and high-quality datasets significantly enhance AI effectiveness, and in turn how these may optimise project outcomes. You will gain valuable insights into how mature project capabilities and data-driven approaches is revolutionising project management through AI. Whether you are a senior project executive or responsible for project delivery, this discussion provides valuable knowledge and practical strategies to harness AI within Project Management.
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Agile Transformation panel
Project Management Institute, Czech Republic Chapter
December 08, 2022
Panel discussion about agile transformation, what to do and not to do. how to support organizations on their agile journeys.
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Adaptive organizations
SME Banking Club
November 25, 2022
Panel discussion about how to transform into adaptive organization, psychological safety, impact on leadership and how to empower the teams in the financial services industry.
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How to safeguard improved performance in turbulent times
Conferenzia World
November 10, 2022
Panel discussion about impact of agility, technology, open innovation and low-code/no-code platforms on operational performance.
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The do’s and don’ts of upskilling and scaling citizen developers across your organization
Venture Beat
November 09, 2022
Panel discussion about introducing LCNC to organizations, sharing experience, discussing security aspects of Citizen Development.
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Open Innovation
Coffee talk: BURNOUT - How to spot, prevent and address it!
Sheleads
February 10, 2022
Participation in the panel discussion about detection and prevention of a burnout at a workplace
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Tags: Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Mental Health
Panel discussion: Learning from biology on organizational transformation
Red Button Brain and Breakfast
January 31, 2022
Participation in the panel discussion to reflect on learning from microbiology and what can be applied in leading organizational transformation.
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Tags: Leadership, Agile, Change Management
Transforming Visions: A Journey with Lenka Pincot into Agile Leadership, Digital Transformation, and the Future of Project Management
Listen Notes
January 22, 2024
In this episode, we discuss:
Common challenges organizations face in adopting agile approaches and strategies to overcome them.
Delve into Lenka's global experience, focusing on leading transformation initiatives in diverse cultural contexts and the impact of culture on these efforts.
The integration of predictive and agile methodologies within an EPMO, exploring benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls.
Strategies for initiating and sustaining culture shifts, along with fostering psychological safety within teams during transformation.
The alignment of transformation efforts with overall business strategy and the role of customer centricity in successful digital transformation.
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Future-Proofing PM Careers in the Age of AI
PM Podcast
December 18, 2023
Episode Highlights:
Understanding the AI Revolution: We kick off the episode by setting the stage for AI's impact on project management. Lenka Pincot joins us to shed light on this rapidly evolving landscape.
Future-Proofing Your PM Career: We discuss the necessity for project managers to develop AI competencies, focusing on AI literacy, data proficiency, ethical awareness, adaptive thinking, and tech collaboration.
Adapting to AI in Project Teams: The conversation will explore how AI integration affects entire project teams, and the importance of fostering a culture of innovation and AI acceptance.
PMI's Course Spotlight: We delve into PMI's "Generative AI Overview for Project Managers" course, an essential resource for staying updated in this changing field.
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Can AI increase success of projects?
greyfly ai
June 22, 2023
AI in Project Management - a job thief or a helper? I always look at technology as something that can help us amplify the value we create, and AI is not an exception. But it always leads to the same question over and over again - what is the true value that we deliver? What is the essence of it? And how to use technology as an opportunity to do things better instead of facing it with fear of the unknown.
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Strategic Project Leader podcast: How To Go From Project Manager to C-suite via the PMO by Lenka Pincot
Strategic Project Leader podcast
May 13, 2023
Strategic Project Leader podcast focuses on helping project managers to break the glass ceiling and become a C-level executive. In this episode, I am interviewed by the podcast author Fola Alabi and I share my learnings, career experience and take aways.
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Tags: Leadership, Personal Branding, Project Management
How to create digital transformation
The Focus Bee
March 29, 2023
Video podcast hosted by Kattie Stoddart about digital transformation.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Agile, Change Management
Episode #14 Career Pivot with Lenka Pincot: From consulting and tech to banking
Ani Filipova
August 30, 2022
I joined podcast Change is possible that focuses on career growth. I shared my experience when working for a non-profit organization, where I learned these two things that helped her for the rest of my career:
- Discover what working with meaning and purpose is
- Understand efficiency. When you work with volunteers, no one wastes time with nonsensical tasks; people value their time and focus on what matters.
Regarding mentors, I always had one of the most unconventional ones. I was taught this: when you have an issue, think about your famous superhero and what they would do.
My three key takeaways for those who are thinking about changing their careers:
1. Keep track of your achievements. Work on your brand and make it easy for people to understand who you are and what you can offer.
2. Work on your self-awareness and use it to build your resilience.
3. Be observant, and connect the dots.
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Tags: Culture, Agile, Change Management
Leading transformation change
Elise Stevens
May 20, 2021
Podcast about key elements of succesfully leading a company-wide transformation change
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Tags: Agile, Digital Transformation, Leadership
Agile transformation in the finance industry
Buzzprout
October 05, 2020
How to approach agile transformation in finance industry which is regulated and typically known for processes and rules rather then for agility? IN this podcast, I talk about change framework and engagement of stakeholders in the change by promoting future core culture values.
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Tags: Agile, Change Management, Culture
How to lead agile transformation
VSE (Czech Economy College)
November 23, 2022
Lecture for the Czech Economic College on how to lead agile transformation
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Tags: Agile, Change Management, Future of Work
Leading agile transformation
WU Academy
November 11, 2022
Delivering lecture on how to lead agile transformation ot EMBA students of Vienna Academy
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Tags: Agile, Change Management, Innovation
System Thinking and its role in Strategy and Innovation
WU Executive Academy
November 12, 2021
Giving a gues lecture on role of system thinking in strategy and innovation.
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Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Business Strategy
The Role of Systems Thinking in Strategy & Innovation
Wienna University
November 13, 2020
Demonstrating the role of Business Dynamics and System Thinking tools in Strategy and Innovation. The webinar was delievered as part of MBA course.
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Tags: Digital Disruption, Leadership, Open Innovation
Power Skills
Nasscom Insights
March 31, 2023
Interview led webinar about importance of power skills for project managers
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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Project Management
Future skills of Project Managers
University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague
December 15, 2022
Delivered lesson to international group of students of Project Management about the impact of technology on industry transformation, current challenges of of project and product managers, need for agile approach and strong Power Skills.
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Effective Enterprise Transformation: How to Set up for Success using Practices from the Disciplined Agile (DA) Toolkit
PMI Netherlands Chapter
November 10, 2022
To be effective at Enterprise Transformation, organizations must embrace the philosophies of becoming a learning organization. Successful transformations require the adoption of new ways of thinking, new ways of working, and new technologies. This is where it gets challenging for many organizations.
Because every organization is unique, with unique priorities and challenges, we need a fit-for-purpose and flexible strategy that reflects actual situations to get you from where you are today to becoming a learning organization in the future.
During this webinar, we will explore a real case study and share experiences on how to Align, Improve and Thrive in your Transformation journey using practices from the DA toolkit.
Topics covered:
1. What it means to be an Agile Transformation leader.
2. How to effectively manage organizational transformation in large-scale organizations.
3. How to address people skills and competencies at scale.
4. A few tools and practices from the Transformation blade of the DA toolkit.
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Tags: Agile, Culture, Future of Work
System Thiking and strategic management
MIRO
February 08, 2022
Webinar about System Thinking and its application in the Strategic Management and Innovation.
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Tags: Leadership, Agile, Business Strategy
We can speak. But can we communicate?
RedButton Edu
April 03, 2021
Educational webinar for project managers how to communicate to maximize a value creation.
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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Project Management
Stakeholder engagement
Red Button Edu
February 05, 2021
Making a video content for education network
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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management
Global Business Agility report interview, EFMA
President, NGO chapter organization
Business Agility, Culture Change and Building High Performing Teams
