Project Leadership

Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate high flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail.

Do you want to become a better project manager? What skills can you improve to do your job more efficiently? How can you implement an agile methodology to improve your team’s productivity? What mistakes should you avoid while managing your team or a project? Do you want to discover the answers to these questions? If yes, this is the perfect book for you! You need better and newer project management methodologies to ensure this doesn’t happen. One such management methodology is Agile.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to overcome your fear of speaking in public and make an impressive presentation. It will help you become more confident in speaking in front of large crowds whenever needed. More importantly, it will help you get your message across to your audience in a direct and clear way. After listening to this book, your fear of speaking in public will not be as much of a challenge as it is now.

Whether you are about to start a brand new career in project management, or you are an existing project manager that is now looking to climb the corporate ladder, this audiobook will teach you how to manage your projects effectively, from beginning to end. The term "project management" is so broad and can be applied to so many aspects of business that a lot of people get confused by it. But don't worry, this audiobook will break it down into bite-size, relevant chunks that you can take away and apply.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.

The agile practice is only one of the many iterative methods devised by development leaders in the past. Fundamentally speaking, iterative methods opposed the overly-incremental approach of the waterfall method by using a multitude of smaller phases. These phases encompass the main parts of the waterfall method (requirement, design, implementation, verification, and maintenance); but done so in smaller, more frequent increments.

Why. What. How. Who. When. What do they have to do with intentional empowerment? Everything!Empowerment is one of the most over-used leadership terms today. Along with its overuse comes a myriad of definitions which range anywhere from total control to total abdication. Empowerment isn’t about sending followers to run errands or leaving them to fend for themselves. There's a systematic intentionality to it that ensures clarity, calibration, and collaboration for line-of-sight completion. See what you do with the why, what, how, who, and when to intentionally empower followers to deliver ...

Projektmanagement ohne formelle Ausbildung? Warum das kein Problem ist, zeigen die FranklinCovey-Experten in ihrem praxistauglichen Leitfaden für alle, ...

Las organizaciones se enfrentan cada vez a más costos y una competencia cada vez mayor. Con Lean Seis Sigma puede combatir estos problemas y hacer crecer su negocio. Lean Seis Sigma es una metodología fascinante que está orientada a ayudarlo a aumentar la productividad de su organización y eliminar los desperdicios. La idea sintetiza dos conceptos diferentes, Lean Enterprise o Lean Manufacturing y Seis Sigma, para darle una excelente comprensión de cómo su empresa está malgastando dinero y recursos, y qué puede hacer para evitarlo.

“会社は育ててくれない”時代のなかで、成長の「機会」と「時間」を自らつくり出す「働きかたのデザイン」の入門書。

A lot of business owners and managers get many things right, but there are also things they can do better. Take communication skills for example: Are you really effective enough at communicating? Are you good at delegating responsibilities? Aside from this, we’ll touch on the topic of project management. People who work in projects typically achieve more if they have been executed effectively. Real leaders get things done fast and proficiently. Are you that leader yet?

A project charter is a formal document that signifies an official kick-off of your project. This audiobook prepares you to understand each component and have hands-on expertise in clearly documenting the specifics needed to convince the top management to approve your project. Whether you are executing a Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, or even a large project management style of project, you would need to document the project charter. And this audiobook covers every aspect of the charter for any and every type of project.

In Project Management with Ease and Purpose, author Evelyn D. Brooks, MSM, PMP, SSGB, pulls from her years of leading multimillion-dollar, high-profile projects to explain theories, techniques, and best practices of project management. She also provides plenty of real-world examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied to avoid PILEUPS and achieve success.

Management is understood in different ways by different people. Economists regard it as a factor of production. Sociologists see it was a class or group of persons, while practitioners of management treat it as a process. For our understanding, management may be viewed as what a manager does in a formal organization to achieve objectives. It is called by Mary Parker Follet "the art of getting things done through people”. This definition throws light on the fact that managers achieve organizational goals by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves.

Today’s workplace has evolved. Yet the strategies to empower employees and teams are still maturing. Getting the Job Done fills this gap by providing a practical framework to inspire teams and keep them accountable for ultimate success. Rather than impose a single method to make you a better project manager, Getting the Job Done gives a flexible strategy that will help you lead confidently, take advantage of all the perspectives on your team, and get the job done on time without having to sacrifice quality.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan.

Un guide pratique et accessible pour apprendre à diriger efficacement un projet ! Comment s'organiser convenablement lorsque l'on se retrouve à la tête d'un projet, afin de le mener à terme avec succès ? Cette question, chacun est amené à se la poser un jour ou l'autre, que ce soit dans le professionnel ou dans le privé, pour un projet personnel qui nous tient à cœur ou pour une mission confiée par un supérieur. La réponse n'est pas évidente et peut varier en fonction de la situation, mais de grands principes généraux peuvent tout de même être dégagés.

The Agile community has always needed a tell-all audiobook on early starts in Scrum that reflects not only on the insights and theories of thought leaders from the Cohn signature series but on updated experience collected from the Agile trenches. What happens in the wild varies widely, and with digital landscape changing at an exponential rate, so do the demands of the Agile marketplace. This audiobook will help you save months if not years of figuring out the avoidable hardships of the early Scrum career.

Lean Six Sigma is a technique for process improvement designed to eliminate challenges, remove waste and inefficiency, and improve working conditions to better respond to customer needs. It integrates the Lean and Six Sigma techniques, processes, and concepts into one popular and powerful approach to improve the operations of your company.

A field manual for leaders who want to roll up their sleeves and disrupt the status quo, The Culture Project will tell you how you can use practical tactics and common sense to really understand what’s going on “in the weeds” of your organization - and why doing so is the only way to end mediocre performance and lukewarm results.