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A Project Manager's Guide to Influence

Colin Gautrey

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Description:"Project managers who think their job is simply to execute their plan are deluding themselves. Clients want people who can fit in and work out how to get it done. Nobody paves the way and project managers have to figure out how to influence." Diane Dromgold, RNC Global Projects, Sydney, Australia. This is not a book about project management. It is a book that shows project managers how to become more influential. It will encourage you to look at your project from a completely different perspective – in fact, many perspectives. You will learn how to make sense of the powerful dynamics shaping life for you and your stakeholders. Then it will show you processes you can adopt to ensure that you influence what needs to be influenced. Based on the author's earlier work in Advocates and Enemies: How to Build Practical Strategies to Influence Your Stakeholders, this book offers you a practical way to make things happen. Large or small, internal or external, all project managers can benefit from learning how to become more influential. If you are managing a project, are facing significant challenges in delivery, and are determined to overcome these challenges and succeed, you need this book. “Colin’s book takes stakeholder management from the abstract and peripheral role it has on most projects, to its rightful place as a powerful, structured discipline core to successful delivery. Full of practical approaches and real world experiences.” Richard Newton, Organizational Change specialist and award winning author of The Management Book and The Project Manager, Mastering the Art of Delivery. "It is hard to understand why highly intelligent capable people often fail to succeed managing complex projects. Project Managers, by their nature, are generally highly task focussed. As a result they often miss important dynamics in the background as all their efforts focus on a logical progression to the goal. This book offers a totally different perspective which could transform your understanding of why projects succeed or fail, and in the process, transform your success rate. I found it enlightening as well as being easy to read! I recommend it highly." Ian Joesbury, Chair of Institute of Mechanical Engineers Management Group. "I found it really refreshing, particularly with regards to the challenges you pose to people's natural inclinations not to question … solid stakeholder management methods but are so well described that they cut through all the technical babble … really helpful in giving new project managers an insight into just how hard it can be if you spend too much time on the outcome and not enough time on the relationship aspect of working in a project within a business" Samantha Negus, CTO Training Delivery, EDF Energy (personal opinion and not the opinion of EDF Energy). "I liked the fact that book is very practical in nature and provides tangible framework to organize thoughts about influencing stakeholders - this part is useful for both experienced and relatively new to profession people, as even if you know the techniques - it's much easier when somebody put them into nice questionnaire and all you need to do is to follow it." Alexander Burnos, Technical Program Manager, Google. "Colin's book is once again, a practical guide for being more influential. It is filled with practical tools that have been created and tested with project managers. If you need a reference guide that will help you see things in a more strategic way, and help you get things done (especially when things are getting slippery), this book is for you." Natalie Michael, Executive and CEO Coach, The Karmichael Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Project Manager's Guide to Influence. To get started finding A Project Manager's Guide to Influence, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Project managers who think their job is simply to execute their plan are deluding themselves. Clients want people who can fit in and work out how to get it done. Nobody paves the way and project managers have to figure out how to influence." Diane Dromgold, RNC Global Projects, Sydney, Australia. This is not a book about project management. It is a book that shows project managers how to become more influential. It will encourage you to look at your project from a completely different perspective – in fact, many perspectives. You will learn how to make sense of the powerful dynamics shaping life for you and your stakeholders. Then it will show you processes you can adopt to ensure that you influence what needs to be influenced. Based on the author's earlier work in Advocates and Enemies: How to Build Practical Strategies to Influence Your Stakeholders, this book offers you a practical way to make things happen. Large or small, internal or external, all project managers can benefit from learning how to become more influential. If you are managing a project, are facing significant challenges in delivery, and are determined to overcome these challenges and succeed, you need this book. “Colin’s book takes stakeholder management from the abstract and peripheral role it has on most projects, to its rightful place as a powerful, structured discipline core to successful delivery. Full of practical approaches and real world experiences.” Richard Newton, Organizational Change specialist and award winning author of The Management Book and The Project Manager, Mastering the Art of Delivery. "It is hard to understand why highly intelligent capable people often fail to succeed managing complex projects. Project Managers, by their nature, are generally highly task focussed. As a result they often miss important dynamics in the background as all their efforts focus on a logical progression to the goal. This book offers a totally different perspective which could transform your understanding of why projects succeed or fail, and in the process, transform your success rate. I found it enlightening as well as being easy to read! I recommend it highly." Ian Joesbury, Chair of Institute of Mechanical Engineers Management Group. "I found it really refreshing, particularly with regards to the challenges you pose to people's natural inclinations not to question … solid stakeholder management methods but are so well described that they cut through all the technical babble … really helpful in giving new project managers an insight into just how hard it can be if you spend too much time on the outcome and not enough time on the relationship aspect of working in a project within a business" Samantha Negus, CTO Training Delivery, EDF Energy (personal opinion and not the opinion of EDF Energy). "I liked the fact that book is very practical in nature and provides tangible framework to organize thoughts about influencing stakeholders - this part is useful for both experienced and relatively new to profession people, as even if you know the techniques - it's much easier when somebody put them into nice questionnaire and all you need to do is to follow it." Alexander Burnos, Technical Program Manager, Google. "Colin's book is once again, a practical guide for being more influential. It is filled with practical tools that have been created and tested with project managers. If you need a reference guide that will help you see things in a more strategic way, and help you get things done (especially when things are getting slippery), this book is for you." Natalie Michael, Executive and CEO Coach, The Karmichael Group, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Project Manager's Guide to Influence. To get started finding A Project Manager's Guide to Influence, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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