What Does It Take to Succeed As A Project Manager?
That’s the question that Project Management Institute, the world’s largest project management member association, asked more than 700 project managers around the world in 2011. In this highly accessible guide, you’ll not only learn about their answers, you’ll also receive the practical tools, techniques and knowledge you need to develop the skills they identified as most important to project success.
Leaders aren’t born. They’re made.
Leadership is not a set of elusive traits. It is a practical competency, a concrete set of knowledge, skills and behaviours that you can use to improve you and your team’s effectiveness. Authored by Cynthia Stackpole Snyder, PMP, EVP, MBA, an award-winning project manager and educator, this handbook includes actionable content drawn from her own decades of experience managing projects for organizations such as JPL and Hewlett Packard, as well as the latest in cutting-edge research from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.
Topics include:
- How to develop a foundation understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses
- Tools to increase your awareness and mastery of the complex emotional dynamics that affect you and your team’s success
- Practical strategies on how to build, motivate, manage and communicate with a team - whether they are across the room or around the world
- Effective ways to manage conflict
The book also explores such advanced topics as risk-taking, gender differences, cognitive theory and the effect of technology.
Filled with insight and practical advice, this impactful guide is required reading for anyone who relies upon projects to succeed.