This book provides the tools to integrate key people, organizational, and technical skills. Success in any environment depends largely upon completing successful projects; this book gives you the means and methods to meet that goal. The hands-on, action-oriented tools in this book will help readers develop a complete set of skills--the right set to excel in today’s competitive environment. This book will enable you to implement the easy-to-understand, universal, powerful, and immediately applicable concepts. You may already be aware of what you need to do; this book supplies the how through assessments, checklists, exercises, and examples of real people applying the concepts. Use these tested methods to overcome environmental, personal, social, organizational, and business barriers to successful project management!
Content:
Front Matter
• Introduction
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Leadership and Management Skills
2. The Role of Humor and Fun
3. Personal Skills
4. Project Management Skills
5. Environment Skills
6. Organization Skills
7. Negotiating Skills
8. Political Skills
9. Conflict Management Skills
10. Sales Skills
11. Change Management Skills
12. Market and Customer Knowledge
• Appendix Toolset: Complete Project Manager Assessment
• References and Resources