Plan Academy

06/26/2026

Find us at Booth 210 in Las Vegas at the iconic MGM Grand for AACE’s 70th Anniversary Conference & Expo. A milestone event you won’t want to miss! Michael and Rama will be there June 28-30, so stop by the booth and say hello! (and as Michael how he's feeling about AI and planning these days)

06/22/2026

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06/17/2026

"Healthy Leadership for Humans Under Pressure" - live tomorrow.

This is the conversation we've been having in our "Humans of Project Controls" podcast, but live and interactive. The soft skills that actually move the needle:
✔️how you listen when people are scared,
✔️how you decide when you're emotionally activated,
✔️how you keep standards high without breaking people.

If you've been listening to the podcast and thinking "I need more of this," this is for you.

If you're a leader feeling the weight of keeping your team steady while everything's urgent, you need to hear this.

If you're on a team that's under pressure and wondering if it's normal to feel this way, yes - and here's how to navigate it.

Three people. Real stories. Practical tools. Your questions answered live.

Join us:

Leadership gets harder when the pressure is real: deadlines, uncertainty, high standards, competing priorities, and a team that’s trying to perform without burning out. This live session is a practical panel conversation focused on the human side of leading under pressure - how stress shows up in ...

06/15/2026

📣 This is the kind of conversation that shifts how people show up together...

Leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's about how you show up when pressure hits.

Soft skills - how you listen, communicate, navigate conflict, build trust - these are what separate leaders who burn out their teams from leaders who keep people steady.

This is exactly what we're exploring in our "Humans of Project Controls" podcast. Real conversations with real leaders about the human side of the work.

On Thursday June 18th 11AM, we're taking it live with a panel on healthy leadership under pressure. You'll hear from a business coach, a psychotherapist, and a business owner about the soft skills that actually matter when things get hard.

It's conversational. It's real. It's free.

Register now: https://bit.ly/4gas01y

06/12/2026

If you’ve ever found yourself re-typing the same value down a column in (activity codes, calendars, etc.), this quick trick will save you a ridiculous amount of time.

In this new post + video tutorial, we walk through how to use “Fill Down” in P6 to copy values fast - so you can clean up schedules, standardize fields, and move on with your day (instead of doing repetitive clicks).

It’s one of those small workflow moves that compounds when you’re working on real projects with hundreds (or thousands) of activities.
Blog: https://hubs.ly/Q04lbnY70
Video: https://hubs.ly/Q04lb5s_0

If you’ve ever used Excel, you already understand the idea behind Fill Down: set a value once, then copy it quickly to a bunch of rows.

06/12/2026

Leadership for Humans Under Pressure 🚨
What you'll actually take away from this panel:

→ The 2–3 early signals that your team is under pressure (before it becomes a crisis)
→ What leadership reflexes make stress worse (and what to do instead)
→ How to have hard conversations without escalating things
→ Why your team is worried and what they actually need from you
→ How to set high standards without burning people out
→ One practical move you can try next week

This isn't theory. It's not clinical. It's real people sharing real examples and the tools that actually work. You'll leave with something you can use on Monday.

Thursday. 11AM EST. Live. Free. Q&A included.

Register: https://bit.ly/49KaehS

06/10/2026

Meet your panelists.

Jen brings 15+ years of business coaching and knows the patterns that show up when leaders are under pressure. She spots what's happening before people can name it.

Juanita is a psychotherapist specializing in interpersonal dynamics. She translates the invisible - what stress does to how we communicate, decide, and relate to each other.

Michael is the owner of Plan Academy. He's lived the pressure of growing a business, making hard calls, and keeping a team steady when uncertainty is real.

Together, they're unpacking what healthy leadership looks like when everything feels urgent.

Thursday June 18th. Live. Free.

Register: https://bit.ly/4x9kE4u

06/09/2026

Your team is spiraling. Decisions are getting slower. People are withdrawing.

You know something's off, but you're not sure what - or how to fix it.

This is what pressure looks like when it's not named.

On Thursday June 18th, we're hosting a live panel with three people who've navigated this exact moment: a business coach, a psychotherapist, and a business owner (our own Lepage).

They're sharing the early warning signs of stress in teams, the leadership reflexes that make it worse, and the small moves that actually lower the temperature.

No theory. No clinical talk. Just real examples and practical tools you can use next week.

It's free. It's live. There's a Q&A.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4g7OlNd

Who should you bring to this? Anyone leading people under pressure. Anyone feeling the pressure right now.

Leadership gets harder when the pressure is real: deadlines, uncertainty, high standards, competing priorities, and a team that’s trying to perform without burning out. This live session is a practical panel conversation focused on the human side of leading under pressure - how stress shows up in ...

06/07/2026

🎙️Have you checked out our Podcast series - Humans of Project Controls?

👷‍♂️👷‍♀️Michael loves to get into the reality of the people behind the schedule who really make things happen.

If you're wondering where your skills can take you, take a listen and follow the varied careers of professional planners. Your story could be next.

We are Passionate about combining technology and training for the project controls community. Plan Academy, an online training company, produces and delivers on-demand training on Oracle Primavera and related applications for the project controls community. Plan Academy shares project controls advic...

06/05/2026

🤔Any Primavera 6 user could be easily confused with the myriad of Percent Complete fields available in your project schedule.

📙Whether you're using Earned Value analysis or just trying to progress your schedule-- we have the essential guide for planners and schedulers in any industry.

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