Book description
Take These Six Steps to Reach Your Project Management and Leadership Goals!Starting with an insightful self-assessment, The Project Management Coaching Workbook: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Potential offers tools, questions, reviews, guiding practices, and exercises that will help you build your roadmap to project management and leadership success.
Based on her experience as a coach and mentor, Susanne Madsen offers a proven six-step method designed to help you understand and articulate what you want to achieve—and then assist you in achieving those goals.
This workbook will help project managers at any level overcome some of the most common challenges they face by:
• Effectively managing a demanding workload
• Leading and motivating a team
• Building effective relationships with senior stakeholders
• Managing risks, issues, and changes to scope
• Delegating effectively
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Step 1: What Do You Want to Achieve? Create Your Vision and Mission Statement
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Step 2: Self-Assessment: Create a Benchmark of Your Current Skill Set
- Your Self-Assessment
- Skills and Knowledge
- Project Initiation and Planning
- Managing Product Quality
- Tracking Cost and Schedule
- Risk, Issue, and Scope Management
- Managing and Motivating the Team
- Stakeholder Relationships and Communication
- Self-Management
- Leadership Behavior
- Project Stability and Identity
- Consolidate Your Scores
- Analyze Your Scores
- Gap Analysis
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Step 3: 360° Feedback: Seek Feedback from Managers, Peers, and Customers
- 360° Feedback Form: Project Management Performance Review
- Skills and Knowledge
- Project Initiation and Planning
- Managing Product Quality
- Tracking Cost and Schedule
- Risk, Issue, and Scope Management
- Managing and Motivating the Team
- Stakeholder Relationships and Communication
- Self-Management
- Leadership Behavior
- Project Stability and Identity
- Incorporate 360° Feedback into Your Workbook
- Consolidate Your Scores
- Analyze Your Scores
- Refine Your Gap Analysis
- Step 4: Action: Create an Action Plan and Move Forward
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Step 5: Guiding Practices: Learn More about Project Management and Leadership Techniques
- What Causes Poor Project Delivery and Failure?
- Guiding Principles for Project Management Success
- Project Success Criteria
- Managing Risks and Issues
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Initiating and Planning a Project
- Managing Changes to Scope
- Team Motivation
- Adaptive Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Building Trusting and Lasting Stakeholder Relationships
- Time Management
- Stress Management
- Lessons Learned
- Step 6: Progress Review: Examine Your Progress and Determine Next Steps
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Project Management Coaching Workbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2012
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781567263589
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