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10 Specific Actions That Can Help You Become Happier and Project Management in Legal Staffing Companies.

Cornelius Fichtner: Our first show, are you ready?

Josh Nankivel: I am.

Cornelius Fichtner: Let’s do it!

Elizabeth Harrin: Not The Status Report with Josh Nankivel and Cornelius Fichtner.

Cornelius Fichtner: Hello everyone and welcome to Not The Status Report with me, Cornelius Fichtner, and on the line is Josh Nankivel. Hey Josh!

Josh Nankivel: Hey, how you doing?

Cornelius Fichtner: So, the idea of the Not The Status Report is that Josh and I, we meet weekly. We talk to each other about the great things that we have found on the internet that may help project managers out there and we give you our recommendation. We give you the status or not the status of project management the way we find it out on the internet. So Josh, what is your recommendation this week?

Josh Nankivel: This week, my recommendation is “Inspired Project Teams” and this is a blog and podcast by Michael Greer and I came across this the other day. Somebody retweeted it and I saw it on Twitter so I went and checked it out. I put it on my iPod so that I could listen to it while I was doing the dishes the other night.

And there was one called “Ten specific actions that can help you become happier.” So I listened to this one and I just really liked it. The first one just to give you an example is “Turn off the local news, it’s not real.” And the second one is “Turn off the National and World News, it’s not real either.”

So it was kind of: Am I going through all the different things for this particular one? But Michael Greer has a good…I like the way that he is approaching it. There are a lot of things that he is talking about that I can relate to and he is pleasant to listen to so check that out. And you, what do you got, Cornelius?

Cornelius Fichtner: Yeah! What’s the URL where people can find this?

Josh Nankivel: www.inspiredprojectteams.com

Cornelius Fichtner: Excellent! And of course, we will have a link to this in the show notes at www.not-the-status-report.com.

I have something that is very out and sort of right field from where I am at because my projects have always been in IT project management, management consulting, logistics, supermarket. That’s the world that I’ve been in. But whenever somebody asks: “What kind of projects that you do?” I tell them: “You know, project management is an extremely wide field. It can be anywhere.”

And what I found is a website by Paul C. Easton. It’s called “Legal Project Management” and it’s at http://legalprojectmanagement.info and here he talks about thoughts, tips and discoveries that are related to the management of legal projects. And in particular, I want to point you to one post that he has on this blog called “Project Management in Legal Staffing Companies”.

Let me read a section here for you. This is really cool because it kind of got my mind thinking: Increasingly, legal staffing agencies are touting their project management expertise as a way to distinguish themselves from competitors who simply supply warm bodies. When I work as a project manager for a legal staffing agency in New York, we employed full-time project managers which was unusual at the time. Now, most of the large legal staffing agencies also provide staging and project management services in addition to temporary attorney placement.

It’s very interesting because I would never have considered that if you have a legal company, your attorney, that project management would be something that you would use in your organization and you would distinguish yourself by not just saying: “Hey, we’re not only giving you legal help here on this and then we’re staffing your company, no! We’re also giving you project management for the projects that you’re running. So very interesting, a every different look, a very different world if you ask me in regards to project management here by Paul C.

And his other blog posts are quite good as well. Although I am following him on Twitter and he tweets sometimes too much like 10 tweets in 5 minutes and I was like, aah! That’s just way too much.

Josh Nankivel: Cool! Yeah, I’ve never really thought about project management in legal profession but it’s a testament to if you do your work in a structured way, you’re going to get better results.

Cornelius Fichtner: Absolutely! Well, I guess that’s it for today. Goodbye, Josh!

Josh Nankivel: Goodbye, Cornelius.

Cornelius Fichtner and Josh Nankivel: Goodbye, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth Harrin: Catch you later! You’ve been listening to Josh and Cornelius, 5 minutes of project management magic.