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About this Episode:

In this episode of the Transformative Leader Podcast, I’m happy to bring you a conversation author, speaker, and team-building expert, Clint Padgett, about how leaders can use the art of conversation and the power of commitment to consistently create successful teams and organizations. Clint is the President and CEO of Project Success Inc., a project management company that enables leaders to consistently and successfully deliver high-stakes projects, by providing a proven, repeatable framework that can be applied with teams of any size. Clint’s most recent book is The Project Success Method, while his upcoming book, How Teams Triumph: Managing By Commitment, will be available in January 2021.

Clint is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 30 years experience as a project manager and leader. He is a published author, teacher and expert in team-building and the art of conversation. He is a proponent of conversation, which he defines as separate from communication. That’s because, these days, leaders and team members alike often communicate well, but conversation brings a depth and clarity and that ensures the right things actually get done.

Since joining PSI in 1994, Clint has been helping leaders and their teams implement repeatable, sustainable strategies to deliver high-stakes projects on time, on target. Clint’s vast level of experience positioned him to reshape the landscape of project management to better reflect today’s new business models. With the modern organization becoming more fast, agile and highly reactive, it’s imperative that companies use a method that’s proven to actually work in the real world – not with tools that are just new and trendy at the moment. And that’s exactly what Clint brings to the table – a collaborative, actionable approach that leads to team commitment and buy-in even in a matrix organization. He delivers the knowledge and motivation that, when applied to strategic initiatives, transform businesses and create a competitive advantage.

I have to say, I really love the philosophy behind Clint and PSI’s work. The fact that their goal is to have their clients become self-sufficient—to “put themselves out of business“—just speaks to the integrity and well-earned confidence they have in their proprietary Project Success Method. Not only that, it is also a recognition that each of us has the potential to become a great leader and use the art of conversation and power of commitment to cause a transformation, no matter where we are on the organizational hierarchy or what industry we are in. I see a lot of parallels with the principles of Transformative Leadership, as well as my own journey of attempting to create a repeatable process so that others could put those principles into action for themselves.

So, all in all, I really enjoyed talking to Clint, and I know both his insight and his work with PSI will be of great interest to listeners. On top of that, it is always great to spotlight a fellow kindred spirit, and especially if they are also Atlanta-based like myself! So be sure not to miss this one!

Some topics discussed in this episode include:

• How Clint discovered his passion for leadership, team-building, and conversation, and how he ended up at PSI.

• What exactly is the Project Success Method, and how can leaders put it to work for themselves?

• Why conversation as opposed to communication, and why the difference really matters.

• How to address the challenges of project management and conversation with remote teams.

• And much, much more…

Clinton M. Padgett is a ForbesBooks Featured Author, ForbesSpeakers Thought Leader and frequently speaks at conferences on the subject of project management and teamwork, including the Executive Education program in the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is an adjunct professor. Clint's first book, Project Success Method, is a unique, proven and fire-tested methodology which allows companies, groups or managers to learn and develop consistency in the way they plan, schedule, manage, control and close out projects on time, per spec and within budget-- in as little as 5 days. Agile development has ushered in an obsession with adaptive planning and continuous improvement, and Clint’s upcoming book, How Teams Triumph: Managing By Commitment, provides the missing blueprint for the foundation of collaborative effort of cross-functional teams that Agile development is built upon..

Guest Links:

To learn more about Clint and his work, you can visit his website and the PSI website, where you can download a whitepaper comparing benefits of using the Project Success Method vs Agile vs Waterfall. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and by emailing him at clint.padgett@projectsuccess.com.

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