Happy new year! Every evening when I bring my 7 years old daughter Charlotte to bed, I ask her the following two important questions: What did you like most today and made you smile? What have you learned today? Today I received two powerful messages which, in essence, reflected in a beautiful way to the […]
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IPMA International Project Excellence Gala and IPMA Congress 2016
17 and 18 November 2016 I visited the IPMA International Project Excellence Congress in Warsaw. Competences of Professionals The theme of this year’s event was the importance of the PM competences which integrate knowledge and experience of project management professionals. The absolute top of international project managers were present and several of them presented their: Project […]
IPMA Project Excellence Award Training on the new PEB model.
On Monday 28 October 2015, the new Project Excellence Baseline (PEB) was introduced at the World Congress of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in Panama. Please ready my blog about this World Leading Project Management Congress here. As a consequence, all international assessors and jury members had to go through an intensive three days training. I fully support that IPMA […]
IPMA World Congress Panama
Between 28th and 30th September 2015 I joined the World Congress of the International Project Management Association in Panama (IPMA WC). A key part of this important congress for (international) project managers is the Project Excellence (PE) Award gala dinner, where the IPMA PE jury presents the final results. All projects have been assessed by […]
IPMA Project Excellence Award. Site visit Nanjing, China
What an impressive week! From Saturday evening 3 July to Thursday evening 9 July I visited Nanjing in China for the IPMA Project Excellence Awards. Please click here for my previous blog about the preparations in Europe. This visit created an enormously positive view for me on China and the way the Chinese run projects […]
The IPMA International Project Excellence Award Process
Mid-March 2015 I have successfully completed the International Project Management Association (IPMA) PE Award training. Please find my blog about this training in Denmark here. In April I was asked to execute an International PE Award assessment regarding a large project in China. I will not write about the name, location etc. of this multimillion project […]
Project Excellence
Last weekend I attended the Project Excellence Award Training in Denmark (13, 14 and 15 March 2015). This high quality training, executed by the International Project Management Association (IPMA), has learned me how to execute International IPMA Project Award assessments / audits. IPMA is the world leading Project Management Organisation with nearly 60 membership countries. […]
Certification in other professions
See also my first blog regarding my dialogue at the IPMA World Congress here. Update 28 September 2014, Ready to go! Please see this teaser. Update 28 August 2014 As promised (expectation management => ICB 1.02 stakeholder management), please see an update on my blog in preparing for my presentation at the IPMA WC. […]
IPMA World Congress 2014
This week I continued to prepare my presentation for the World Congress of the International Project Management Association in Rotterdam the Netherlands: IPMA WC 2014 (29 Sept. / 1 Oct.) As a certified IPMA Level B project manager, member of the Dutch IPMA exam committee, IPMA Level B and Level C assessor I do recognize […]
IPMA Behavioural competences training
Rome, July 2014, IPMA Behavioural competences training. Early July I gave a training about several IPMA competences to a group of 16 managers in Rome. The key focus was to explain and to share experiences about the most important 15 behavioural Project Management competences. We know that “the larger and more complex the project is, the more important the […]
Topsport community diner
The Topsport Community is a community of Top athletes, Executives from multinationals and scientists. The goal of this community is to learn from each other, to strengthen leadership and to create an inspirational network of excellence. Yesterday evening we had a very inspiring diner with about 40 well known Dutch people. Among them were top […]