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Essential Project Manager Allen Evitts
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What does it mean to be Essential?
� Indispensable � Absolutely necessary � Prerequisite � Obligatory � Compulsory
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3 Essential to Effective Project Management
3, and only 3
What are they??
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Essential Project Management: A New Philosophy
� Three Essentials to Effective Project Management:
◦ Communication Skills ◦ Leadership Skills ◦ Structuring Skills
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Communications
Leadership Structure
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Communications
Interviewing
Negotiation
Status Reports
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Procurement Essential?
Scope Management Essential?
Cost Management?
Quality Management?
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How to use the 3 Essentials to Manage Successful Projects?
Let’s look at …
Structure
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IS YOUR ORGANIZATION A TWO HEADED DRAGON??
Governance
Delivering Project on Time, on Budget & on Scope
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Structure and Projects
� Is your project in a mature organization?
� What’s unique? � Do you have
Governance? � Do you have
regulatory? � Can you work
iteratively?
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Structure and Projects
The Essential Project Manager build the foundation of the project bringing together the organizations structure with other needed structure to make the project successful.
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HOW DOES LEADERSHIP FIT?
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What is Leadership in Projects?
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7 Key Leadership Skills
� Keeper of Vision � Team Builder � Facilitator of “Followship” � Problem Solver � Seeker of Different Opinions � User of Emotional Intelligence � Keep the end in mind
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Keeper of Vision
Problem Solver
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HOW DOES COMMUNICATIONS FIT?
It’s the bridge …
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What is Communications?
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COMMUNICATIONS
• Formal vs. Informal • Verbal vs. Non-verbal • Communications Vehicles • Communications Models • Communication through Learned
Patterns • 10 Key Communications Skills
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10 Key Communication Skills � Know your Audience � Know your Content � Be Specific � C3 – Be Clear, Concise, and Complete � Practice Dynamic Listening � Think Proactively � Be Genuine / Be Honest � Control Communications � Listen and Control Non-Verbal (Body
Language) � Ask Good Questions
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Practice Dynamic Listening
Know Your Audience
Ask Good Questions
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Bringing it together
� The Essential Project Manager … ◦ Identifies Structure and amends as needed ◦ Focuses on the Goals of the Project and
Leads the team to that vision ◦ Communicates with the stakeholder, team,
organization and self to insure clarity and understanding
� Above all, drive projects towards … Success.
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