Got downtime? Teach yourself project management with these free videos and tools!

The Situation: You've Got Lots of Down Time & A Great Big Brain to Feed!

As noted in my last article, the vast majority of my fellow Americans -- indeed, people from all over the world -- have been stopped in their tracks by the COVID-19 pandemic. We've been asked to stay home from our jobs and schools and generally "hide out" at home to help stop the spread of this horrible and deadly disease. And you can only spend so much time on YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, etc. until you go numb! So why not teach yourself something valuable so that when you emerge from your cave... and you will eventually emerge!... you will have some "added value" in the workplace?  And project management (PM) is one skill set that provides lots of value in almost any industry!

The Overall Approach: Keep It Simple... Become a PM Minimalist! 

Project Management (PM) Minimalism is the practice of doing “just enough” PM to get the job done, and no more. PM Minimalism may be applied to any project in any industry or professional practice. It's up to you to decide what “just enough” PM is for your particular project, in your unique organization. The Project Management Minimalist: Just Enough PM to Rock Your Projects!*  provides lean, simple, and professional-level PM tools and guidelines to help you make this decision and run a Minimalist project. (*NOTE: Amazon, my book distributor, won't let me list this book in their catalog at a price of $0.00 [FREE!], as I would like to do. So I set it up for sale at the absolute minimum price they allow, which is $2.99 for the Kindle, $6.99 paperback. But honestly -- you don't need to buy the book to get a whole bunch of valuable stuff that you can use to teach yourself PM Minimalism.... See below...)

The Video Series: An In-depth Overview of PM & PM Minimalism

These free videos are short and sweet and matched to the book... but you don't need the book to get a lot out of them! They'll allow you to just kick back and ease into project management and PM Minimalism.

The PM Minimalist Support System & Freebies (Lotsa Good Stuff!)

Inspired by the videos to go a little deeper? This is a HUGE collection of mostly free stuff to help you learn and apply PM Minimalism, coach/lead your project team and even create a do-it-yourself PM Minimalist workshop. There are PDF reference tools, audios, coaching guides and all sorts of useful materials to help anyone who is new to PM get their project up and running immediately.

Enjoy!

The Best of 2018: Seven Posts Worth a Second Look

I began 2018 with the hard (and tedious!) work of moving all my websites to Google's Blogger platform.  (It's a long story... But the move was necessary due to relentless and expensive-to-defend-against attacks by hackers at my old hosting service.) Finally, after the dust settled in April, I was able to gather my energy for creating some new posts.

Looking back over the year, I am proud to say that this new WORTH SHARING website has produced some reasonably good stuff. The following seven posts are the best of the year. You'll find reviews of some simple, useful tools, as well as a couple of meatier posts that will challenge you or shift your perspective. Enjoy! 

A Gift for You: Rock-Bottom Prices on Three Books (Project Management Minimalist, PM Minimalist Mentor & WORTH SHARING)

[12/29/2021 UPDATE:  I've decided to keep these "low as I can go" prices in effect forever. -- MG]

Happy Holidays! Here's my gift to you: BIG SAVINGS on my three most recent books! In fact, I have drastically reduced the prices on all of these to the lowest allowed by Amazon!  (Yep. I tried to go lower, but my Amazon Author's pricing system wouldn't let me go below these.)

The Price Cuts

Here's a summary of these new, lowest-possible prices:

• All Kindles: Now just $2.99. That's 70% off. (Savings: $7.00 on each Kindle)
• Paperbacks: 52% - 72% off (Minimum prices allowed for these physical books is based on number of pages, print production costs & other factors.)
• The Project Management Minimalist: Now just $6.99. That's 72% off. (Savings: $17.96)
• The PM Minimalist Mentor:  Now just $9.99. That's 67% off. (Savings: $19.96)
• WORTH SHARING Essays & Tools... : Now just $11.95. That's 52% off. (Savings: $13.00)

Scroll down for details about each book, plus links to background videos & supporting freebies.

 

• Book overview:  122 pages of PM guidance, including 35 PM tools with PM "Minimalist Squeeze" strategies for tightening up your PM, tips for working with your team, and lots more!
• Find it on Amazon:  Paperback version or Kindle version
• Learn all about this book.
• Learn about the PM Minimalist Support System & Freebies (videos, audios, coaching tools, performance-based tests & do-it-yourself workshop outline)

• Book overview:  This is a collection of coaching tools designed to help your project team get organized and work their way through all ten "Nuts and Bolts" Steps as outlined in The Project Management Minimalist. Included: 10 sets of coaching tools and scripted meeting guides, suggestions about which team members should participate in particular meetings and guidelines for facilitating team building discussions. NOTE: You could easily build your own Project Management workshop based on the Project Management Minimalist (above) using this book and the videos, course outline, etc. listed in the PM Minimalist Support System & Freebies (especially see: Recipe for a Do-It-Yourself PM Workshop) 
• Find it on Amazon:  Paperback version or Kindle version
• Learn all about this book. 
• Learn about the PM Minimalist Support System & Freebies (videos, audios, coaching tools, performance-based tests & do-it-yourself workshop outline).

• Book overview:  This is an eclectic compilation of practical PM tools, thought-provoking PM essays and suggestions for helping individual project managers and their teams stay sane while delivering quality finished products. Over 300 pages, it consists of 54 chapters and hundreds of links* to additional PM resources. Most of the chapters were originally published as blog posts and have never before been released in book form.
• Find it on Amazon:  Paperback version or Kindle version
• Learn all about this book. 
• * NOTE:  Some links to the free online references in this book may have changed since the book was originally published. If you're having trouble finding something, check one of these resources: Mike Greer's WORTH SHARING website,  Michael Greer's PM Resources Archives or the free podcasts, articles & team tools in my Inspirations collection.

=== YOU WIN THE "SCROLL DOWN TO THE END" PRIZE!! ===>

Get these books for FREE as PDFs!! Just go to this Internet Archive page:
"Michael (Mike) Greer's Publications In Internet Archives," then find what you want and download it!  You're welcome!!  

From the Archives: "Why You Should Trust Your Judgment (Your 'Inner Wisdom Filter')"

Your "Inner Wisdom Filter" is real & it's trustworthy!

“Skill in any performance, whether it be in sports, in playing the piano, in conversation, or in selling merchandise, consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed, but in relaxing, and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.”  -- Maxwell Maltz in Psycho-Cybernetics

“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.” -- Wayne Dyer in The Power of Intention

The message shared by these great teachers… indeed, by many other great philosophers… is that to achieve anything great you must trust that voice which lies deep within you and is trying to be heard...  

Want to learn more? Read the entire chapter (including interactive "Team Challenges") online, for free, here:  Worth Sharing: Essays & Tools to Help Project Managers & Their Teams.  Or listen to/download the podcast that inspired it here:  Trust Your Judgment (the podcast).

Related Posts

• A Lesson from the Humble Pelican: Find Your Unique Mission, Then Soar!
• Overwhelmed by Angst? “Spit on Your Hands & Get Busy!” (Including a Quick Start Guide to Banishing Angst)
• Inspirations: An Archived Collection to Motivate & Bring Peace of Mind
• Inspirations: The Podcast Collection

• Inspired Project Teams Coaching Guide

• Book: The Project Management Minimalist (this chapter originally published there, in this section: "The People Stuff: 10 Sets of Challenges to Inspire Teams”)

Re-Introducing My YouTube Channel (A 10-Video Sampler)

I LOVE sharing cool stuff! And one of the best ways to share anything is through a video "walk through" that demonstrates how it works, what's so great about it, etc.

Over the years I've collected quite a lovely pile of videos in my YouTube Channel.  In fact, as of this writing, there are over 90 videos organized into five different playlists. (And there are absolutely no annoying ads! ☺👍)

So since I've recently relaunched this website, I figured it might be a good time to re-introduce my YouTube Channel.

My 10-Video Sampler: A Little Bit of Everything

Introducing the PDF Collection: Useful Tools and References To Go!

The PDF Collection: downloadable tools & references

My new PDF Collection is an eclectic bunch of free PDFs that I have published over the years.* There are four broad topic areas:  

• General Interest (All sorts of useful stuff) 
• Project Management 
• Project Management Minimalism (See definition here)
• Managing Instructional Design & Development Projects

Until a few days ago, these PDFs were scattered all over the place. As part of my recent website consolidation I've decided to pull them together in a single location so they are easier to find. 

Introducing My PM Resources Archives

As I noted in my previous post, my PM Resources site has been reorganized as an archived collection. And it's LOADED with good stuff on Project Management (PM), PM Minimalism, working with project teams, and more. You'll find links* to PM tools, videos, audios, position papers, references and pretty much anything and everything I've ever published. 

Here's an interactive Table of Contents:

My Website Migration: And Then There Were Three

The One-Minute Version

All my new stuff is right here at ... WORTH SHARING
All my archived stuff is at ... PM Resources or INSPIRATIONS... 

I've closed down two websites ("The Best Free Training" & "Project Management FREEBIES") and I have frozen, but kept available in archived form, two websites ("Michael Greer's PM Resources" & "Inspired Project Teams (archived as "INSPIRATIONS"). I will continue to publish all my new articles, PDFs, podcasts, videos, etc. here at this website, Mike Greer's WORTH SHARING.

Click below to check out my other two sites: 

Go to Michael Greer's PM Resources Archives

Go to INSPIRATIONS... archives.

The Extended Version: Of Hackers & My Quest for Quality of Life