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The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders: Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management

Autor Alfonso Bucero,MSc,PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI F
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iul 2014
If you want to be a successful project manager, you need to become a person of influence. Without influence, there can be no success as a project manager. And, although all key success criteria point to the importance of developing soft skills as a project manager, few books exist about how to develop the power of influence for achieving better project and business results.

Filling this need, The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders supplies detailed guidance on how to improve your influence skills to achieve better business results. It explains how to set and meet ambitious goals for you, your team, and your stakeholders.

The book describes how to listen actively to influence others and details how you can build partnerships that can pay dividends for a lifetime. Each chapter highlights real-world scenarios about a particular subject linked to the influencing skill being covered. Each chapter also includes practical forms, templates, helpful tips, and best practices to help you develop and refine your skills of influence.

  • Details the ten keys to influencing others to support you and your ideas
  • Outlines techniques for improving your listening skills
  • Includes a trust assessment for determining your level of influence and if others see you as trustworthy
  • Demonstrates how to build a network of informal alliances to achieve success
Supplying you with the vision of influence from an experienced project manager’s perspective, this book will help you procure the informal power required to become a successful influencer. After reading the text and performing the trust assessment, you will gain the understanding required to lead project members down the path to project success.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781466596337
ISBN-10: 1466596333
Pagini: 219
Ilustrații: 23 black & white illustrations, 15 black & white tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția Auerbach Publications
Seria Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management


Public țintă

Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

Training a Better Horse. Ten Keys to Influence. Practice Active Listening. Develop Trust. Practice Your Integrity. Influence to Win. Practice Your Generosity. Understanding People. Develop Commitment. Cultivate Your Informal Power. Understand How to Convert Your Project Vision into Reality. Sell Your Horse. Develop and Sustain Your Influence. Ride Your Horse. The Myths of Influencing. Summary and Conclusions.

Notă biografică

Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI Fellow is the founder and Managing Partner of BUCERO PM Consulting. He managed IIL Spain for almost two years, and he was a Senior Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain (Madrid Office) during thirteen years. Alfonso is a PMI member, a member of ALI (Asociacion de Licenciados, Ingenieros y Doctores en Informatica), AEIPRO (IPMA member) and DINTEL's advisor. Alfonso was the founder, Sponsor and President of PMI Barcelona, Spain Chapter until April 2005, and he is an IPMA Asessor. He was a member of the CoPAT (Congress Project Action Team) of PMI EMEA 2005 Congress in Edinburgh, 2006 PMI EMEA Congress in Madrid, and PMI EMEA Congress in Budapest. He was graduated in The "Leadership Institute Master Class 2007" on October 2007 in Atlanta (PMI Global Congress). He has been the last the President of PMI Madrid Spain Chapter. Now he has been nominated by PMI as Component Mentor for Region 8 South since 2011. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award on October 9th, 2010. He also received the PMI Fellow Award on October 22nd , 2011. Alfonso has a Computer Science Engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, and is finishing up his Phd studies in Project Management at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. He has 27 years of practical experience and twenty two of them in international project management. He has managed and consulted projects in different countries across Europe. Since 1994, he is a frequent speaker at International PM Congresses and Symposiums. Alfonso has delivered PM training and consulting services in Spain, Mexico, UK, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, Costa Rica, Brazil, USA, and Singapore. As a believer in Project Management, he defends that Passion, Persistence, and Patience are the keys to project success. He authored the book Direccion de Proyectos, una nueva vision that was published by LITO GRAPO Editors, in IIL Mexico in 2003. He is a contributor of Chapter 7 in the book Creating the Project Office. Published by Jossey-Bass Editors, in San Francisco, California also in 2003. Alfonso co-authored, with Randall L. Englund, the book Project Sponsorship published by Josse-Bass Editors, in 2006. He has authored the book Today is a Good Day: Attitudes for Achieving Project Success, published by Multimedia Publishing in Canada in 2010. He has also contributed to some professional magazines in Russia (SOVNET), India (ICFAI), Argentina, and Spain. Alfonso co-authored with Randall L. Englund the book The Complete Project Manager and The Complete Project Manager Toolkit published by Management Concepts in 2012.

Descriere

If you want to be a successful project manager, you need to become a person of influence. Without influence, there can be no success as a project manager. And, although all key success criteria point to the importance of developing soft skills as a project manager, few books exist about how to develop the power of influence for achieving better project and business results. Filling this need, The Influential Project Manager: Winning Over Team Members and Stakeholders supplies detailed guidance on how to improve your influence skills to achieve better business results. It explains how to set and meet ambitious goals for you, your team, and your stakeholders. The book describes how to listen actively to influence others and details how you can build partnerships that can pay dividends for a lifetime. Each chapter highlights real-world scenarios about a particular subject linked to the influencing skill being covered. Each chapter also includes practical forms, templates, helpful tips, and best practices to help you develop and refine your skills of influence. Details the ten keys to influencing others to support you and your ideas Outlines techniques for improving your listening skills Includes a trust assessment for determining your level of influence and if others see you as trustworthy Demonstrates how to build a network of informal alliances to achieve success Supplying you with the vision of influence from an experienced project manager s perspective, this book will help you procure the informal power required to become a successful influencer. After reading the text and performing the trust assessment, you will gain the understanding required to lead project members down the path to project success. "