Videos
Videos are the energy bars of project management training. You know how it can be sometimes: you might not have the time for lunch so maybe you grab an energy bar to tide you over. In the same way, you may not have the time right now to devote to a book, a class, or even an article in a professional publication. That's where videos can be useful.
Short videos on project management or related topics are a good way for fitting in some training into the small slices of spare time that sometimes are the only time we have available for professional development. Have ten minutes left on your lunch break? Is your carpool running a bit late? Why not make good use of such time snippets by firing up a short video?
The table below lists a selection of videos related to project management or, more broadly, leadership and management. Select a video for viewing by clicking on the link in the last column of that video's entry. The video will open in a new window so you'll be able to get right back to this list to pick another video just in case your carpool still isn't ready to head home.
| Topic | Title | Duration (min:sec) |
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| Leadership & Management | Leadership Training and Change Management | 7:52 | Projects almost always involve bringing about a change in an organization. This presentation discusses the kinds of gut-level reactions that people typically have to changes in their organizations. | View This Video |
| Management | Cisco - Change Management Training Video | 6:25 | A professional-grade company training video that uses a broadcast studio scenario to demonstrate how to overcome a group’s natural resistence to change. | View This Video |
| Leadership | True Leader Tales... Acts of Leadership | 4:39 | The author of the “The 60-Second Leader” argues that an organization’s leadership should not be isolated within one or a few leaders at the top of the organization but should permeate the organization as a leadership culture. Only then can the people who have the right knowledge and the necessary conviction in a situation serve as emergent leaders to take people in the right direction. Illustrates these points with a very memorable true story. | View This Video |
| Leadership - Motivation | Motivation, leadership business change management business | 5:38 | Asks and answers the question "What really motivates people? (Hint: it’s not "shareholder value and bottom-line profit.") | View This Video |
| Leadership - Assertiveness | Assertiveness | 15:05 | A systematic discussion of assertiveness: what it is, what it’s not (aggression), and some tips on how to properly use it in real-life professional and personal situations. | View This Video |
| Project Management | Introduction to Project Planning | 6:38 | An overview of the components of project planning. If you were to find the boldly colored slide border to be a distraction during this presentation, it’s possible that a few well-placed post-its on your screen might remedy the problem. That’s pure speculation, of course. | View This Video |
| Project Management | Project Management Quick Tips - Lesson 1 | 8:37 | A analysis of what exactly project management is through a consideraton of the various meanings that the term has. | View This Video |
| Project Management | 5-Steps to Project Success (Seriously!) v1.1 | 8:16 | Project management boiled down to five key words: “Why”, “What”, “How”, “Who”, and “Tracking”. A solid synthesis of project management principles presented with visuals you’ll either like or hate | View This Video |