The Persuasive Project Manager: Communicating for Understanding
The Persuasive Project Manager: Communicating for Understanding

Author: Bill Brantley Pmp

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-02-03

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781795728492

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You may have heard that "90% of a project manager's work is communication." But, have you heard why communication is so important and what is good project management communication? Answering those questions is why I spent the last ten years studying project management communication and what makes a successful project. Not only as a working project manager but as a communication researcher. I found that project management communication needs to be reinvented for today's more complex and agile projects. Communication is no longer just the transfer of information and giving directives to project teams. Modern communication theory is based upon creating shared understanding - "the coordinated management of meaning." And nowhere is it more important to manage and coordinate meaning - and understanding - than in projects. In my book, I will explain: -How to communicate for understanding instead of just giving information.-What Aristotle taught us about effective communication and why his 2,000-year old advice is still vital to persuasive communication.-How the "Coordinated Management of Meaning" can help you develop and lead high-performing project teams.-Why the project manager is the communication hub and how you can better manage the flow of project communication.-Why project managers need to master both emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence when communicating with their project teams and stakeholders. Be more effective in negotiations when you understand the hidden emotional and cultural subtexts.-What cognitive biases are and how they are barriers to understanding. This book will teach you how to recognize and overcome cognitive biases to better communicate your message.-How to effectively communicate online with a distributed workforce by virtually "present."-Why communicating for understanding is the foundation of being a coaching, situational leadership, and servant leadership project manager.This is not just a book on theory; I also give the working project manager practical tips and tools to help him or her improve their project management communication. These workplace-tested tips and tools are ready to use today as you manage your projects.I wrote this book because I couldn't find many books on project management communication. And the books I found were mainly focused on the outdated information transfer model. Because communication is important to project success, this book is dedicated to giving project managers the latest communication research and methods so he or she can create a culture of understanding in projects and increase the chances for project success.

The Necessary Art of Persuasion
The Necessary Art of Persuasion

Author: Jay A. Conger

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2008-09-08

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 1633691020

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In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In The Necessary Art of Persuasion, Jay Conger describes four essential components of persuasion and explains how to master them, providing the information you need to fulfill your managerial mandate: getting work done through others.

International Project Management
International Project Management

Author: Kathrin Köster

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1446204839

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With project management becoming an increasingly global endeavour, a comprehensive and international student text that reflects this reality is essential. International Project Management does just that, systematically linking the key elements of cross-cultural management and the particularities of an international context, with the tools and techniques of project management. Key features include: - A wide variety of examples and illustrations, including an in-depth, end-of-chapter case study with case questions; - Student exercises and review questions; - Detailed further reading - The full support of a Companion Website, featuring a Teacher′s Manual

Communication Skills for Business Professionals
Communication Skills for Business Professionals

Author: Celeste Lawson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1108594417

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With its emphasis on Australia and New Zealand, this book is a comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to professional communication.

Communications Skills for Project Managers
Communications Skills for Project Managers

Author: G. Michael CAMPBELL PMP

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2009-05-13

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0814410545

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According to the Project Management Institute, over 80 percent of a project manager’s job is communication—yet most project management books hardly discuss it. Communications Skills for Project Managers provides practical advice and strategies for ensuring success, even in the face of shifting organizational priorities, constantly evolving expectations, and leadership turnover. This important guidebook gives readers the skills they need to keep everyone in the loop. Readers will find out how they can: • keep those on the project team—as well as upper management—involved and informed • establish a plan for communication • effectively present to stakeholders • compete with other initiatives within the organization • convey reasons for change • and more Even a project that is brought in on time and on budget can be considered a failure if those outside a project team haven’t been kept informed. This book provides readers with the skills they need for ensured project success, every time.

Effective Communications for Project Management
Effective Communications for Project Management

Author: PMP, Ralph L. Kliem

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-11-28

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1040063543

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Effective communication on projects is a challenging, ongoing process for project managers and stakeholders at all levels within an organization. Project managers experience the greatest challenge due to the nature of their position. They set up and regulate communications that support a project overall. Effective Communications for Pro

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management
The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

Author: Zachary Wong

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1523097949

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Zachary Wong offers practical strategies, skills, and tools to help project managers diagnose and solve their toughest people problems. Based on decades in the trenches, the book shows how to confront and correct bad behavior, increase team performance and inclusion, turn around difficult people and poor performers, get people to do what you want them to do, boost employee motivation and attitude, reduce change resistance and risk aversion, and manage difficult bosses. Wong believes that the best team leaders are problem-solvers and facilitators, so this book provides problem-solving models and tools to diagnose people problems, and facilitative methods, processes, and techniques to correct them. It's an approach that can be personalized to fit any person or situation. Each skill is explained with a well-balanced mix of case stories, examples, strategies, processes, tools, and techniques along with illustrations, graphics, tables, and other visuals to clarify key concepts and their workplace application. To reinforce the most important learnings, Wong includes a “Memory Card” and “Skill Summary” at the end of each chapter. Nothing is harder than leading people and managing project teams. Being successful takes a combination of knowing human psychology, organizational behaviors, and human factors; having supervisory, process, and communication skills; ensuring good teamwork, high integrity, and strong leadership; and having the ability to integrate and apply these skills to a diverse work team. The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management is designed for individuals, team leaders, and managers who oversee and coordinate the daily performance of others and who are seeking solutions that they can apply immediately.

Managing the Workplace Survivors
Managing the Workplace Survivors

Author: Marvin R. Gottlieb

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1995-09-14

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap is written for managers and other staff professionals who are charged with the responsibility of realigning the corporate culture and revitalizing survivor employees. The book helps managers and other organizational leaders understand the critical role they play in today's organization, and identifies specific strategies for increasing quality, productivity, and bottonm-line profitability among survivor employees. Organization leaders are challenged to construct dynamic strategies to empower, retain, and create incentive for the survivor employees, and to facilitate effective strategies to assure the entire organization's survival. The book is divided into two major parts: Gaining a Perspective and Developing a Survivor Strategy. Gaining a Perspective places more emphasis on who the survivors are, where they come from, and what is happening to them. It introduces the Survivor Management Model, which outlines an approach used successfully by the authors to help companies recommit and realign their survivors. Developing a Survivor Strategy shifts more emphasis to recommendations about what to do with them. The Appendices are a Manager's Toolkit that contain several instruments and exercises that have proved effective in implementing the Survivor Management Model.

Project Management
Project Management

Author: Jack R. Meredith

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-23

Total Pages: 1315

ISBN-13: 0470533021

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As the use of project management to accomplish organisational goals continues to grow, skills related to understanding human behavior, evaluating organisational issues, and using quantitative methods are all necessary for successful project management. Meredith and Mantel have drawn from experiences in the workplace to develop a text that teaches the student how to build skills necessary for selecting, initiating, operating, and controlling all types of projects.

Good Charts
Good Charts

Author: Scott Berinato

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13: 1633690717

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Dataviz—the new language of business A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of information and ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication. For a long time “dataviz” was left to specialists—data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new generation of tools and massive amounts of available data make it easy for anyone to create visualizations that communicate ideas far more effectively than generic spreadsheet charts ever could. What’s more, building good charts is quickly becoming a need-to-have skill for managers. If you’re not doing it, other managers are, and they’re getting noticed for it and getting credit for contributing to your company’s success. In Good Charts, dataviz maven Scott Berinato provides an essential guide to how visualization works and how to use this new language to impress and persuade. Dataviz today is where spreadsheets and word processors were in the early 1980s—on the cusp of changing how we work. Berinato lays out a system for thinking visually and building better charts through a process of talking, sketching, and prototyping. This book is much more than a set of static rules for making visualizations. It taps into both well-established and cutting-edge research in visual perception and neuroscience, as well as the emerging field of visualization science, to explore why good charts (and bad ones) create “feelings behind our eyes.” Along the way, Berinato also includes many engaging vignettes of dataviz pros, illustrating the ideas in practice. Good Charts will help you turn plain, uninspiring charts that merely present information into smart, effective visualizations that powerfully convey ideas.