Manage to Lead
Manage to Lead
Flexing Your Leadership Style
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2018
Pages: 114
Size: 7 x 9.5 Inch
Publisher: Project Management Institute
Published in India by: Viva Books
Exclusive Distributors: Viva Books
Sales Territory: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
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.
Target Audience:
This book provides practical strategies to project management professionals on how to build, motivate, manage and communicate with a team - whether they are across the room or around the world.
Contents:
Chapter 1: What is Leadership? • Topic 1 Leadership is not One-Size-Fits-All • Topic 2 Leadership Behaviors (from PMI research) • Topic 3 Leadership Skills • Topic 4 Leadership Traits and Characteristics
Chapter 2: Know Thyself • Topic 1 The Importance of Self-Awareness • Topic 2 Identifying Your Personal Values • Topic 3 Defining What Motivates You • Topic 4 Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses • Topic 5 The Importance of Self-Reflection • Topic 6 Being Authentic
Chapter 3: Emotional Intelligence • Topic 1 What is Emotional Intelligence • Topic 2 A Little More on Self-Awareness • Topic 3 Self-Management • Topic 4 Social Awareness • Topic 5 Social Skills • Topic 6 Utilizing Emotional Intelligence • Topic 7 Increasing Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 4: Leadership Styles • Topic 1 Thinking Style • Topic 2 Personality • Topic 3 The Interaction Between Thinking Style and Personality
Chapter 5: Building Your Project Team • Topic 1 What Does a High-Performing Team Look Like? • Topic 2 Top for Teams • Topic 3 Enrollment, Engagement, and Shared Meaning • Topic 4 Stages of Team Building • Chapter 6: Motivating Team Members • Topic 1 The Importance of Motivation • Topic 2 Intrinsic Motivational Theories • Topic 3 The Role of Influencing
Chapter 7: Communicating is the Key • Topic 1 Communication is About the Audience • Topic 2 The Power of Listening • Topic 3 Communication Dos and Don?ts • Topic 4 Challenging Conversations
Chapter 8: Managing Your Team • Topic 1 Critical Thinking • Topic 2 Problem Solving • Topic 3 Decision Making • Topic 4 Holding Effective Meetings • Topic 5 Team Evaluation • Topic 6 Dealing with Toxic People
Chapter 9: Virtual Teams are Different • Topic 1 Why Virtual is Different • Topic 2 Virtual Behaviors • Topic 3 Virtual Skills
Chapter 10: Managing Conflict Effectively • Topic 1 The Nature of Conflict • Topic 2 The Evolution and Sources of Conflict • Topic 3 Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution Model • Topic 4 Steps to Manage Conflict
Chapter 11: Advanced Topics • Topic 1 Power1 • Topic 2 Building Trust • Topic 3 Gender Differences • Topic 4 How People Think • Topic 5 The Effect of Technology ?
