We’ve talked about this a lot at PMO Flashmob – coaching skills. Skills we could be using to better support those we work within the delivery organisation – skills we could be using within the PMO itself to increase performance and maturity. We’ve talked about the differences between mentoring and coaching – we’ve also talked about being skilled to coach ...

It’s the eighth (maids a-milking) of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and in this one we picked up on the subject of coaching. This session was one of the Lightning talks from two of our Standuppers for PMO and also earned a post up on the ah-ha board with this insight “coaching can happen in all ...

Coaching has often been identified as a key skill for PMO professionals. It’s long been mentioned in job advertisements as “coaching and mentoring skills” and more recently with the PMO supporting Agile delivery approaches, the term ‘coaching’ is heard more frequently. What does that actually mean? Coaching is surrounded in misconceptions and in this session, we’re debunking some myths whilst ...

Coaching has often been identified as a key skill for PMO professionals. It’s long been mentioned in job advertisements as “coaching and mentoring skills” and more recently with the PMO supporting Agile delivery approaches, the term ‘coaching’ is heard more frequently. What does that actually mean?  Coaching is surrounded in misconceptions and in this session, we’ll be debunking some myths ...

In January’s PMO Flashmob we had Susanne Madsen join us for the evening session on Coaching Project Managers. We wanted to explore the idea that the PMO coaches project managers, after all we see it on a number of job specifications as a task that PMO should carry out. We had about 30 PMO Flashmobbers so at the beginning of ...

The first PMO Flashmob of 2015 takes place on Thursday 15th January from 6pm at ESI International’s offices just off Oxford Street. This evening’s session is all about coaching project managers. So many PMO job descriptions and roles & responsibilities include the ability to coach project managers. But do PMO practitioners actually coach project managers? Isn’t it really mentoring? Or ...