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PatrickMayfield
Oxfordshire, UK
I'm a chairman of pearcemayfield, a training & consultancy company in programme and project management.
Interests: how adults learn. generic principles of leading change. spiritual intelligence. creativity.
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What's a Badge? Where's the Value?
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This certificate was waiting for me this morning. It's part of my job, it seems, to be in a perpetual cycle of taking exams and (hopefully) getting sent such things, so forgive me if I sound blasé but this did... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Learning Leader
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Project & Programme Managers: Have We Got It Right?
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We had a great day yesterday with a few of our major clients at Lotus F1 headquarters. That's me with the nearest thing you'll to me sitting in a Lotus position... I'm not a "petrolhead", so it astonishes me how... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Learning Leader
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Widening the net, and why we don't do it
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So we are given a project and pretty soon we ask, "Who are the people affected, our stakeholders?" If we are careful, we don't define this as people who are merely affected during the life of the project, but also... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Learning Leader
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Am I a Customer or a Muppet?
My grown-up son introduced me to Disney's "The Muppets", a movie so gloriously funny, IMHO, that it is wasted on children.See this short video for an example. However, the song, "Am I a man or muppet" reminds me of something... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2013 at Learning Leader
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Navigating through Complexity: the MSP Flow Navigator
First, I wish everyone who reads this a Happy New Year! At pearcemayfield we are continually innovating, mostly in small, but rapid improvements. Recently we launched an online navigator for people who book on our transformational change MSP courses. This... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2013 at Learning Leader
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pearcemayfield India is launched!
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Over the last few years we have been doing an increasing amount of work for clients in India. I have personally visited this amazing country several times and have been invited to speak at conferences in different cities across the... Continue reading
Posted Dec 6, 2012 at Learning Leader
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Transition Planning and Leadership: the Cinderella of #Change?
Over the last couple of weeks I have been delivering a modular MSP Practitioner course ("Managing Successful Programmes") for our partner, Cardiff University, at their premises in Cardiff. I was pleasantly delighted on a couple of counts. First, the delegates... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2012 at Learning Leader
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P3O: The 'Big Idea'
I have found myself frequently sketching out the same diagram on what I see as the fundamental 'grand idea' behind P3O. So I have converted it to a sub-seven minute video. Let me know what you think. Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2012 at Learning Leader
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"Managing Benefits": why this is a critical new contribution
Yesterday I was at Millbank House for the launch of Stephen Jenner's new book, "Managing Benefits: Optimizing the Return from Investments", a book I had the opportunity of reviewing, pre-publication. The book, commissioned by APM Group, will be the source... Continue reading
Posted Sep 26, 2012 at Learning Leader
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Leading Change in a VUCA World
I am just back from India, where I gave a presentation in Bangalore last Friday, at the APMG International Showcase. I spoke at this event two years ago on P3O. I couldn't help but notice that the attendance was much... Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2012 at Learning Leader
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The best job in pearcemayfield
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The best job in pearcemayfield must be giving people the good news that they have passed their Practitioner exam and gained their qualification. Yesterday was a good example. I could hear my colleague, Chris Kemp, in the next office calling... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2012 at Learning Leader
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Searching for the keys to project success
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What drives the success of a project? I'm having a lot of conversations with clients and partners about this at the moment. The story is told of a drunk who is found looking for his house keys under a street... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Learning Leader
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The fulcrum of Change
Last week I led our Change Management Practitioner course for a client in Kuwait. As expected, taking people through this material helps me reflect more deeply on some aspect other. One theme that emerged this time was being clear about... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2012 at Learning Leader
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Wanted: a Different Kind of Project Leader
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It suddenly dawned on me... here was yet another instance of project managers being expected to lead in a way that traditional training ignores. It was last month. I was leading the ever stimulating Change Management Practitioner course in London... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2012 at Learning Leader
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Glen, belated thanks for this comment. This is really a diligent production process you describe; quite time-intensive. However, as you say, you get results, and avoid inflicting people with verbal fumbles and slow pace. Thank you.
Toggle Commented Jan 9, 2012 on With presentation skills practice makes perfect at Learning Leader
The most important thing you must work on
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I'm indebted to the writings of Michael Gerber ('The E-Myth Manager' and other associated titles) for explaining the common error that many of us who lead growing businesses can fall into: we get seduced into working mostly in the business... Continue reading
Posted Dec 30, 2011 at Learning Leader
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The Story of the 100th Monkey
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I came across this story about in one of the groups I subscribe to on LinkedIn. It is attributed to Ken Keyes Jr.: The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30... Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2011 at Learning Leader
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The 'bubble' and why you should worry about it
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Gary Barlow, song-writer and member of Take That! was asked recently how he, generally considered all-round Mr Nice Guy, could be so cruel and cutting wth some of the contestants he was judging on the UK TV's "X Factor". The... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2011 at Learning Leader
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With presentation skills practice makes perfect
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One of the techniques I use is to practice. I always give my worst presentations in private. Rehearsing has given me the crucial feedback that my written notes/mind map would never give me and saved me from much public embarrassment,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 22, 2011 at Learning Leader
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Agile Stakeholder Engagement
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The whole process of stakeholder engagement must not be thought of as purely linear. Management guides on this such as MSP(Managing Successful Programmes) have this sort of sequence: In reality it looks more like this: I came across this account... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2011 at Learning Leader
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Audio Book a Hit! ... #PRINCE2
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Recently we launched an audio series on the increasingly popular PRINCE2 project management method on our website... and it's really taken off! What we set out to do was to record 'informed conversations between John Edmonds and me, where I... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2011 at Learning Leader
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The Art of Training Alchemy
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One way I explain 'what we do' is as a sort of alchemy. We turn the base metal of dry management theory and turn it into the pure gold of business performance. Now although parts of the PRINCE2 reference book... Continue reading
Posted Nov 7, 2011 at Learning Leader
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Strategy: Making it so
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I was talking with a friend last night and our conversation turned to our work. "What is it your company actually does?" "We help our client make their strategies happen." My friend, a retired accountant replied "That's interesting. Do you... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2011 at Learning Leader
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Rear view mirror management
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We' ve been doing research around what people in programmes and projects actually think and do. One of the really disturbing phenomena we have uncovered is that most project managers spend a lot of time reading and writing reports about... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2011 at Learning Leader
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Pipes, Waste, DNA & OBASHI
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I've just read the trainer report of our first OBASHI Foundation course. It was a two-day event run at Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire earlier this week. It seems to have gone extremely well, with Richard Rose, the course owner and trainer,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2011 at Learning Leader
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