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Powerful Project Leadership

Title: Powerful Project Leadership
Author: Wayne Strider
ISBN: 1567261477 / 9781567261479
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 248
Publisher: Management Concepts
Year: 2002
Availability: In Stock

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Have you ever worked on a project that ran into serious snags? Or a project that was canceled after significant time and expense? Or one that delivered an acceptable result, yet the people involved would have rather jumped off a cliff than work together again?

How many of these situations were caused, at least in part, by people problems? In Powerful Project Leadership you'll find innovative approaches to working with people that enable you (and everyone) to do their best project work. This book will help you acquire a new toolkit for project success. You'll find yourself drawing from it often!

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Powerful Project Leadership provides :

• An interactive approach with exercises guide the reader in becoming a powerful project leader.
• Real-life examples that show the reader how to develop and exercise powerful leadership skills
• An effective approach to help project managers identify and address the root causes of problems faced during most work on projects
• A solid integration of hard and soft skills

Use Powerful Project Leadership as a resource to :

• Learn how to pay attention to early signs that something is going wrong on your project
• Develop practical approaches to stubborn, intractable, and utterly predictable problems on projects
• Improve the vital flow of information by addressing human problems and misunderstandings
• Encourage change at a deep level - within the individual, on the project, and within the organization

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Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1 : Leading Yourself
Chapter 1 : The Zeroeth Step
Chapter 2 : Using Your Internal Resources
Chapter 3 : Dealing with a Difficult Person
Chapter 4 : How Do You Like Learning About Yourself?
Chapter 5 : Being Understood
Chapter 6 : When You Want to Run Away and Hide

Part 2 : Leading Others
Chapter 7 : Leading from a Half-Step Behind
Chapter 8 : What Do People Need to Help Them Learn?
Chapter 9 : Everything That Happens is an Opportunity for Learning
Chapter 10 : Finding the Energy
Chapter 11 : Being a Helpful Person

Part 3 : Shaping Your Project’s Context
Chapter 12 : Getting Useful Information
Chapter 13 : Giving Useful Information
Chapter 14 : Whom Does Your Project Need to Please?
Chapter 15 : Substitutes for Time
Chapter 16 : Infrastructure
Chapter 17 : When You Know Something is Wrong

Postscript
Appendix A : Workshops
Appendix B : Bibliography
Index

 

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