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In high-assurance environments, project management isn’t just about schedules and budgets — it’s about precision, leadership, and decisions where failure simply isn’t an option.Hosted by a senior project manager and Fellow of the Association for Project Management, The…
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Episode 38 - The Feedback Gap: Why Honest Feedback Drives Better Performance (opens the original)
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In Episode 38 of The Critical Path , we explore why honest, constructive feedback is one of the most important tools in leadership, project management and professional development. Good feedback helps people identify blind spots, understand where performance can improve and turn experience into learning. But feedback is not automatically effective. Poorly delivered feedback can create defensiveness, while specific, timely and actionable feedback can help individuals and teams improve. The episod
Episode 37 - Don’t React. Read the Conflict: How Leaders Turn Workplace Tension into Better Decisions (opens the original)
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Episode 37 of The Critical Path explores conflict management as a core leadership skill in complex organisations and programmes. Conflict is normal wherever people have different responsibilities, priorities, incentives and perspectives. The episode explains the difference between task, process and relationship conflict, and why even useful technical disagreement can become damaging when it turns personal. The central message is simple: don’t react immediately — read the conflict first. Using th
Episode 36 - Leadership Lives Everywhere: Agile Leadership Beyond Command and Control (opens the original)
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Episode 36 of The Critical Path , “Leadership Lives Everywhere: Agile Leadership Beyond Command and Control,” explores what agile leadership really means in complex project environments. The episode argues that agile leadership is not about removing leadership or giving teams unlimited freedom. Instead, it is about adapting leadership style to the situation, creating clear goals and boundaries, developing capable teams, and moving decision-making authority closer to the people with the best know
Episode 35 - Lead Without Ego: Servant Leadership on the Critical Path (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Critical Path , we explore servant leadership in project management and why it should not be confused with passive or overly accommodating leadership. A servant leader creates the conditions for the team to perform by providing clarity, removing obstacles, supporting effective decision-making and encouraging the early escalation of problems. Rather than becoming the centre of every decision, the project manager develops a team that can act with confidence, competence and a
Episode 34 - Influence Without Authority: How to Move People When You Don’t Own the Decision (opens the original)
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This episode explores one of the most important leadership skills in complex project delivery: influencing people who do not report to you. In major programmes, especially in defence, aerospace, infrastructure, and systems engineering, project managers rarely control all the people, budgets, suppliers, or technical decisions needed to deliver the outcome. Instead, they operate across a network of stakeholders, functions, and organisations. The episode explains that influence without authority is
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