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Ninjas Need Balance Too

Project Insight Season 1 Episode 3

This episode features "Time Ninja," Lindiwe Stenberg, PMP of PayPal.  She's a master of setting realistic project timelines to make time for work-life balance. (Something often elusive in a project manager's world). 

Listen now, to hear about the "Gantt chart in her head" and how to stack projects to make work efficient as possible.

  • Productivity Balanced with Work-Life Balance: Lindiwe shares strategies for balancing high productivity with personal life.
  • Setting Realistic Timelines: The superpower of establishing achievable project deadlines.
  • Seeking Efficiencies: Techniques to execute tasks without wasting time.
  • Work-Life Balance for Project Managers: Tips on maintaining harmony between work and personal life.
  • Time Management Skills: Gathering abilities to effectively manage timelines.
  • Nursing and Time Management: Applying nursing time management skills to project management.
  • The Art and Intuition of PM Skills: Exploring the skill, art, and intuition involved in project management.
  • Mental Gantt Charts: How to visualize project timelines internally.
  • Stacking Projects: Learning to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Efficient Execution: Executing tasks efficiently without unnecessary delays.
  • Setting Work Boundaries: The importance of stopping work at a specific time.
  • Project Communications: Understanding how others' work impacts yours, especially in cross-functional teams.
  • Automating Messages and Emails: Utilizing automation in project collaboration.
  • Event Project Management Powers: Special skills required for managing events.
  • Balancing Multiple Roles: Managing a full-time job, master's studies, volunteer work, and serving as a chapter secretary.

Lindiwe Stenberg, PMP

Trina Schaetz, Project Insight

PMI-Los Angeles Chapter

Project Insight Website

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