Book description
Project management is becoming less about managing tools and processes and more about delivering through people. This is the only book on Neurolinguistic Programming written specifically for project managers. It will equip them to communicate across cultures, resolve conflicts, motivate teams and become better leaders.
Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- FRONT MATTER
- HALFTITLE PAGE
- BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- Contents
- Figures
- Author
- Foreword by Mike Nichols
- Foreword by Bob Assirati
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION
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PART 1: THE WORLD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: What is project management?
- 1.3: What is project success and why do projects fail?
- 1.4: Organisational culture and the maturity of the project organisation
- 1.5: People skills through the project management life cycle
- 1.6: People aspects in project management processes
- 1.7: Skills and characteristics of effective project managers
- 1.8: Summary of Part 1
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PART 2: THE WORLD OF NLP
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: About NLP
- 2.3: The four pillars of NLP
- 2.4: Presuppositions of NLP
- 2.5: World-views and filters
- 2.6: The unconscious mind – who is in charge?
- 2.7: Beliefs, values and identity
- 2.8: Meta-programs and behaviours
- 2.9: Frames and reframing
- 2.10: Representational systems and our primary senses
- 2.11: Sensory acuity, body language and mind reading
- 2.12: Sub-modalities – the coding of our memories
- 2.13: Anchoring of state
- 2.14: Rapport – the doorway to better communication
- 2.15: Surface and deep structure of language using the meta-model
- 2.16: Timelines
- 2.17: Modelling of excellence
- 2.18: summaryof Part 2
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PART 3: BRINGING THE TWO WORLDS TOGETHER – PUTTING NLP INTO PRACTICE FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 3.1: Introduction
- 3.2: Ethics and well formed outcomes
- 3.3: Why these skills?
- 3.4: Adopting an attitude of continuous development
- 3.5: Know thyself – developing self awareness
- 3.6: Be your own coach
- 3.7: State management
- 3.8: Handling stress
- 3.9: Presenting yourself
- 3.10: Being assertive while avoiding conflict
- 3.11: Developing flexibility in approach and style
- 3.12: Setting your own goals and achieving well-formed outcomes
- 3.13: Time – managing it and living in it
- 3.14: Seeing the bigger picture while managing the detail
- 3.15: Building rapport with stakeholders
- 3.16: Listening skills – hearing what’s not being said
- 3.17: Reframing difficult situations and delivering bad news well
- 3.18: Bridging the divide – negotiation, persuasion and managing difficult people
- 3.19: Motivating the project team
- 3.20: Giving and receiving feedback
- 3.21: Modelling excellence
- 3.22: Summary of Part 3
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX 1: TAKING THINGS FURTHER
- APPENDIX 2: A VIRTUAL WEEK IN THE LIFE OF AN EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGER
- APPENDIX 3: CHANGING BELIEFS THAT LIMITED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Notes
- Glossary of NLP terms
- Index
Product information
- Title: NLP for Project Managers
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2011
- Publisher(s): BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
- ISBN: 9781780170862
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