secret (pm) sauce - a guide to leading successful projects
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Projects always go wrong. We so often find ourselves working with dreadful clients, on awful projects, with terrible teams and before we know it, our projects have ended in failure. Is there hope? There is, when we start taking some responsibility as project managers, taking ownership and recognizing our role as project leaders. Leadership is about taking ownership – rather than just managing our teams, and our clients, to be successful, we need to lead. It starts with casting a vision and serving our teams to work together towards our North Star. It’s the difference between letting projects happen around us, being another cog that spins around in the machine or leading from the front. So what does leadership look like – how can we as project managers, be better leaders and drive our projects to success?TRANSCRIPT
Secret (PM) SauceA guide to leading
successful projects
Ben Aston // thedigitalprojectmanager.com // @thedigitalpm
Hello.
I’m Ben.
thedigitalprojectmanager.com
@thedigitalpm
#dpm
Successful projects matter.
Secret sauce for project success.
Story time.
Be a project manager leader.
1. Understand success.
2. Understand your clients.
3. Plan, plan, plan.
4. Build a great team.
5. Keep communicating.
6. Manage risk.
7. Be realistic.
8. Stay positive
9. Start moving. Keep moving.
10. Pay attention.
Understand success.
Understand success.
It’s not the same for everyone.
Understand your clients.
Understand your clients.
You’re in the rockstar-making business.
Plan, plan, plan.
Plan, plan, plan.
Be a vision-caster.
Build a great team.
Build a great team.
Serve from the front.
Keep communicating.
Keep communicating.
Let everyone know how pretty you are.
Manage risk.
Manage risk.
Befriend the elephants.
Be realistic.
Be realistic.
Be confrontationally solutionist.
Stay positive.
Stay positive.
Win small.
Start moving. Keep moving.
Start moving. Keep moving.
There is no substitute for momentum.
Pay attention.
Pay attention.
Lead.
1. Understand success.
2. Understand your clients.
3. Plan, plan, plan.
4. Build a great team.
5. Keep communicating.
6. Manage risk.
7. Be realistic.
8. Stay positive
9. Start moving. Keep moving.
10. Pay attention.
Thank you.
How can you apply
leadership to your projects
– how would it transform
the way you project
manage?
Understand success.
Understand your clients.
Plan, plan, plan.
Build a great team.
Keep communicating.
Manage risk.
Be realistic.
Stay positive
Start moving. Keep moving.
Pay attention.