This episode of 'Conversations with Thought Leaders' is with one of Australia's leading thought leaders in Project and Portfolio management, Rob Loader (Consultant, Keynote Speaker, and Director on the Board of the Australian Institute of Project Management).
At a time when project delivery is prominent in the world's response to a global pandemic, this in depth interview covers the following key topics:
- The interruption of COVID provides opportunity for corporates to reflect on their core business and fundamental purpose. This helps them to identify what’s critical, what’s not, and to provide the required focus and direction to drive their organisations into the new world;
- In addition to potentially reducing their office space footprint, organisations are also seeing productivity gains for some roles and functions as further impetus to continue at least some of the new ways of working, particular telecommuting, beyond the current social distancing restrictions; and
- The core skills that project professionals have always needed to survive and thrive have not changed on account of COVID. Now more than ever, skills such as effective communication and forward planning are critical to the success or failure of projects as the new normal begins to take root.
This interview was part of an online forum that took place on Tuesday 26th May 2020, with more than 70 attendees signed in and posing questions from all around Australia.
