A Project Manager's Guide to Influence
Author : Colin Gautrey
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781910470107
Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager (Updated and Revised Edition)
Author : Kory Kogon
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1637740506
Book Description
No project management training? No problem! In today’s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren’t formally trained in managing projects—you’re an unofficial project manager. FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon and Suzette Blakemore understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. This updated and revised edition of Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the value, people, and project management process: Scope Plan Engage Track and Adapt Close If you’re struggling to ensure multiple projects are finished with high value and on time, this book is for you. If you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you. Change the way you think about project management—"project manager" may not be your official title, but with the right strategies, you can excel in this project economy.
Glue
Author : Anh Dao Pham
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 172252703X
Book Description
“Glue offers a rare gift to project managers. It artfully blends specific step-by-step recommendations of how to move from project management to project leadership with the psychological rationale for taking those steps.” - Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion An Essential Guide to Get Stuff Done How many books have you read on project management? On leadership? Too many, right? But no other book combines the practice of project management and leadership into one balanced approach with practical examples—except this book. You don’t even need Project Manager in your title to employ the lessons in this book. You can be any person on any team who has stepped up to take a leadership role on a critical initiative. You’ll learn the critical blend of management and leadership skills that will make you indispensable to any project. You’ll learn what it takes to become the binding agent—the glue—that creates cohesive, engaged, high-performing project teams. The author’s methods have been battle-tested against real technology projects. Her insight and vision reach beyond theory into application and can be used immediately regardless of the length, scope, or phase of your project—whether it’s planning a wedding, remodeling a home, or leading a team in a major website revamp or product launch or company start-up. You’ll learn— How to get started when you don’t know much—yet How to lay a solid foundation for your project How to support a project and a team that’s in flight How to communicate (yah, that’s a thing), how to reward (candy works), how to take notes (yes, please), and how to map out your project with Post-it notes
The Influential Project Manager
Author : Alfonso Bucero,MSc,PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI F
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1466596333
Book Description
If you want to be a successful project manager, you need to become a person of influence. Without influence, there can be no success as a project manager. And, although all key success criteria point to the importance of developing soft skills as a project manager, few books exist about how to develop the power of influence for achieving better project and business results. Filling this need, The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders supplies detailed guidance on how to improve your influence skills to achieve better business results. It explains how to set and meet ambitious goals for you, your team, and your stakeholders. The book describes how to listen actively to influence others and details how you can build partnerships that can pay dividends for a lifetime. Each chapter highlights real-world scenarios about a particular subject linked to the influencing skill being covered. Each chapter also includes practical forms, templates, helpful tips, and best practices to help you develop and refine your skills of influence. Details the ten keys to influencing others to support you and your ideas Outlines techniques for improving your listening skills Includes a trust assessment for determining your level of influence and if others see you as trustworthy Demonstrates how to build a network of informal alliances to achieve success Supplying you with the vision of influence from an experienced project manager’s perspective, this book will help you procure the informal power required to become a successful influencer. After reading the text and performing the trust assessment, you will gain the understanding required to lead project members down the path to project success.
A Survival Guide for Project Managers
Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814429693
Book Description
Seeing a project through to completion involves not just technical knowledge--of tools like Work Breakdown Schedule, Gantt Charts, and Network Analysis--but also human skills, such as the ability to communicate, negotiate, listen, and lead. After all, it's people who do most of the work on projects, and "people problems" can derail even the most meticulously planned project. Practical and user-friendly, A Survival Guide for Project Managers covers both the technical side and the human side. Now in an affordable paperback edition, the book has been revised to reflect the latest version of the PMBOK(r) Guide, and includes new material on topics including Project Risk and the Project Management Office. The book shows readers how to: * develop the interpersonal and business skills required of a project manager * resolve conflicts and improve negotiation capabilities * understand and apply the technical tools of project management * establish project teams, and more Packed with forms and other tools, this is the ultimate resource for project managers
A Project Manager's Guide to Passing the Project Management (PMP) Exam
Author : Brent W Knapp Pmp
Publisher : www.pmexam.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Project management
ISBN : 0972665676
Book Description
Apply your project management skills to the unique challenges of information technology (IT) projects with strategies developed in the field by experienced IT project managers. Discover critical success factors and hidden risks?and get proven, cost-effective solutions.This book addresses all areas of IT project management: hardware, software, systems integration, and human resources. In addition, the book addresses the role of the project manager at each phase of the project life cycle and helps you to gain the foundation, experience, techniques and tools to manage each stage of your project. You will learn techniques to set goals tied directly to stakeholder needs, get the most from your project management team and utilize project management tools to get work done on time and within budget.Designed for both new and veteran project managers, this book extends traditional project management concepts into the IT arena. You?ll gain an understanding of the strategies and skills necessary to manage IT projects of any size.
Communications Skills for Project Managers
Author : G. Michael CAMPBELL PMP
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2009-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814410545
Book Description
According to the Project Management Institute, over 80 percent of a project manager’s job is communication—yet most project management books hardly discuss it. Communications Skills for Project Managers provides practical advice and strategies for ensuring success, even in the face of shifting organizational priorities, constantly evolving expectations, and leadership turnover. This important guidebook gives readers the skills they need to keep everyone in the loop. Readers will find out how they can: • keep those on the project team—as well as upper management—involved and informed • establish a plan for communication • effectively present to stakeholders • compete with other initiatives within the organization • convey reasons for change • and more Even a project that is brought in on time and on budget can be considered a failure if those outside a project team haven’t been kept informed. This book provides readers with the skills they need for ensured project success, every time.
Creating a Greater Whole
Author : Susan G. Schwartz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351663038
Book Description
Creating a Greater Whole unlocks the not-so-secret secrets of what aspiring managers need to become strong leaders. This information-rich, easy to understand guide offers readers an immediate clear path to honing their leadership skills using the rigor and discipline of project management principles. Topics include stakeholder management, collaborative communication, multi-criteria decision making, and conflict management. Reflective exercises in each chapter raise key questions for readers to craft their own development path. The process invites emerging leaders to draw from their past experiences, recognize their intrinsic capabilities, and identify specific skills to cultivate.
A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control
Author : Randal Wilson
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0133573125
Book Description
Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial! Randal Wilson's Project Schedule & Cost Control isn't your typical project management guide: it's 100% focused on the specific principles, techniques, and best-practice methodologies of scheduling and cost control. Wilson illuminates key issues through the extensive use of graphs, charts, case studies, and worked examples; and calls your attention to crucial issues that "generic" PM books ignore. Coverage includes: Project structures, including differences between projects and programs, and how those differences affect costing and scheduling Initiation: how projects start, how to develop project charters and stakeholder registers, and how to manage stakeholders Planning, in depth: what costs must be addressed, and what schedule constraints must be considered Project schedule analysis: activity definition, WBS, and work packages; activity sequencing and diagramming; proven methodologies for estimating resources and activity durations; and schedule development Project cost analysis: gathering and estimating all project costs, including labor, materials, vendor bids, subcontractors, contracts, equipment, facilities, and direct/indirect costs. Budgeting via top-down, bottom-up, and activity-based methods Project monitoring and control: earned value, tracking Gantt, S-Curves, performance reviews, milestone analysis, change control systems, estimate at completion, forecasting, and much more For both project management newcomers and working project managers who need to sharpen their skills
The Project Manager as Change Agent
Author : John Rodney Turner
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Leadership
ISBN : 9780077077419
Book Description
The Project Management as Change Agent examines the often overlooked role of the project manager. It is not enough to rely on the relationship between manager and project team. The authors collective experience widens our view beyond this stage to that of relationships with indirect influences such as owners, sponsors, resource providers and consumers. In fact, anyone whose lives are affected by the project' '''s work and outcome. This radical re-evaluation is a comprehensive preparation and guide for any project manager wanting to maximize strategic and successful change as an integral part of their project objective.
