E20 Naomi Caietti from Naomi Caietti Consulting and Raoul Encinas from PhosLabs
In this special episode of Project Management Office Hours Joe Pusz, PMO Joe, and his guests Naomi Caietti and Raoul Encinas discuss Leadership and how to be a better Project Manager by improving your Leadership skills.
Naomi shares the details of her new book, Transform Your Project Leadership! She discusses the 10 key leadership competencies – Brainstorming, Coaching and Mentoring, Conflict Management, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Interpersonal Skills, Listening, Negotiating, Problem Solving, and Team Building. We dig into these competencies and how they are beneficial to you, the Project Manager, to grow and advance your career. We also hear from Naomi some of her experiences as a consultant to capture her thoughts on the benefits of improving your leadership skills.
Raoul steps us through his experiences as an Executive Coach and utilizing Leadership exercises/techniques to assist clients on their Leadership Journey. Knowing we are not all at the same spot in our career, Raoul shares different starting points for improving leadership for a new Project Manager or a more season PM professional as well as for a PMO leader. A key for both Raoul and Naomi is to recognize that becoming a Project Management leader goes beyond just improving your technical skills. We must dedicate time to improving soft skills and leadership skills to advance our careers.
Listen in to the full episode to hear the details from both of these industry leaders. We covered so much on Leadership in this hour and I wish we had more time to dig even deeper. You can learn more about Raoul and PhosLabs by visiting https://www.phoslabs.com. To learn more about Naomi and her book visit https://www.naomicaietti.com.
Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders discussing a wide range of current topics and events! Our next show will be December 20th with Mark Price Perry and Don Hardenbrook.
The PhosLabs team of experts designs and delivers coach-facilitated workshops, events, and learning journeys that enable people to better respond to the dynamic needs of the business. PhosLabs’ clients are able to access the unique organizational wisdom that is trapped deep within their people and teams.
As the founder of PhosLabs, Raoul Encinas serves clients who crave fresh thinking, new ways of leading, and more meaningful work. As a credentialed executive coach, Raoul helps people distinguish themselves through their leadership craft. He leads a team that designs and delivers coach-facilitated learning experiences that transform the way teams work.
Raoul is the co-author and designer of a leadership development program for project managers that’s been used by Avnet, Comerica Bank, Charles Schwab, Insight, and several other corporations.
Over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 professionals have benefitted from his coaching and learning sessions. He has a BS-Business Management-IT from Western Governors University and is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara.
Connect with Raoul on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Naomi Caietti Consulting (NCC) is a boutique consulting company that provides niche services to small, medium and large organizations in the area of project, program and portfolio management, performance metrics, and strategic planning. NCC assist organizations to realize business value through delivery of excellence in enterprise-wide projects, leadership, management. 
Naomi Caietti is an award-winning business woman, widely respected global virtual thought leader in the project management community for over 25 years. She was an honoree in the 2018 Woman Kind book by Ferguson & Fox about the 2017 #CelebratingWomen Project. In 2014, Naomi founded her consulting company to meet virtual on demand business needs as a speaker, author and consultant. Naomi has been featured in national and international media/publications including the Project Management Institute, ProjectManagement.com, Workfront.com, Employee Engagement Network, Professional Woman Network, IT Metrics and Productivity Institute and ProjectManager.com. Find out more about her new book “Transform Your Project Leadership” at www.naomicaietti.com. Naomi’s passionately committed to making project leaders successful, to inspire women to lead, and be a voice for project leaders around the globe.
Connect with Naomi on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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