Learning from Mistakes: How Project Professionals Grow from Failure

Mistakes happen. It’s how you respond that really matters. In a group discussion, three project professionals share how they turned failure into lessons learned and career maturity. How do you help team members overcome mistakes? And how can project leaders create a culture that accepts mistakes—and spins them into opportunities for greater efficiency and innovation?

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28 August 2024
With guests Alexandra Schutz, PMI-ACP, PMP, Brian Dlamini, PMI-RMP, PMP, and Valentina Barou, PMP

Mistakes happen. It’s how you respond that really matters. Three project professionals discuss mistakes from their project careers and how they turned those failures into lessons learned. Plus, how can project leaders create a culture that accepts mistakes—and spins them into opportunities for greater efficiency and innovation?

Our guests are Alexandra Schutz, PMI-ACP, PMP, director of program management at Appfire, and she is based in the Washington, D.C., metro area; Brian Dlamini, PMI-RMP, PMP, a project manager at Anglo American Platinum in Johannesburg; and Valentina Barou, PMP, a senior project manager at Ubisoft in Paris.

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