Highly Effective Teams & Leadership
How to transform a group of people in a highly effective team? This playlist includes episodes related to teams and leadership.
This playlist has 11 episodes.
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Project Team Management
(24 Sep 2007)
In this podcast Ricardo characterize the project teams and how to dimension them. He discuss the importance of diversity and common objectives during the team building, as the main stages faced by teams, according with Tuckman principles. This podcast was recorded only in Brazilian Portuguese. The...
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Virtual Teams
(10 May 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the management of virtual teams in projects. He explains that this is a big trend in the business world and shows the benefits of leading a virtual team, as well as the major challenges that must be dealt with like cultural, communications and geographic issues....
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Conflicts and Project Phases
(06 Sep 2010)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about the conflicts during the project life cycle. He explains that when the conflict happens in the initial phases of project, the project manager should encourage to discuss the differences and clarify the understanding of the goals, but when the conflict happens in...
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Understanding the 3 Factors to improve the Project Team sizing
(12 Nov 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about how to make a better project team sizing according to three factors: the complexity and geographic dispersion of the work to be done and the team's maturity.
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Getting to know the World of Megaprojects: The Big Challenges - Part 1 of 3
(19 Nov 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo starts a series of podcasts about the world of mega projects. What makes a project a megaproject? Ricardo talks about the characteristics, risks, and impacts of the failure or success of a megaproject. He also begins to introduce the concept of FEL (Front-end Loading), which...
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Getting to know the World of Megaprojects: The FEL Process - Part 2 of 3
(26 Nov 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo continues the series of three podcasts about the world of megaprojects. In this episode, he talks more about the concept of FEL (Front End Loading) and its great importance. In the next and final episode, Ricardo talk about teams, communications and how to engage the...
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Getting to know the World of Megaprojects: Communications and Teams - Part 3 of 3
(03 Dec 2012)
In this podcast, Ricardo concludes the series on megaprojects, talking about communication, teams and some success factors. He comments especially the importance of forming the core team of the project as soon as possible and to be careful on planning the outsourcing of some roles.
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Project Director, Manager, Coordinator or Leader: Who am I?
(16 Nov 2014)
In this podcast, Ricardo raises one question and makes assumptions about why some organizations sometimes provide different titles for whom is responsible for the project management.
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Building Highly Effective Teams – Part 1 of 2
(09 Dec 2014)
In this podcast, Ricardo gives tips on how to transform a group of people in a highly effective team, a subject he addresses in his new book, in partnership with the author Michael Nir. Stay tuned for continuation of this podcast next week.
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Building Highly Effective Teams – Part 2 of 2
(15 Dec 2014)
In this podcast, Ricardo continues to talk about Highly Effective Teams, subject of his new book. He comments on the trust between members, effective decision-making, conflict management and how to recognize the work and create opportunities for the team and for each member.
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Conflict Management and the Project Life Cycle
(29 Dec 2014)
In this podcast, Ricardo talks about managing conflicts. Are conflicts always bad? Listen to the answer of this question and know the different types of conflict that can arise during a project.
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