The Project

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The People

Project Success Rates

What do project managers do mostly each day?

Project Management Hard Skills

SchedulingEstimationScope ManagementRisk analysisControlsProcuringQuality Management

The Project LeaderProject Management Soft Skills

CommunicationEmotional IntelligenceCollaborationNegotiation LeadershipCoachingConflict Resolution

How do project managers get the work on projects

done?

Interpersonal competence, self-awareness and social awareness are better predictors of who will succeed and who won’t.

A 2006 study by Accenture of 251 executives in six countries concluded that while intelligence is important for career success, it’s a matter of how you are smart.

“Communication skills are always No.1 in these surveys (among the most important selection

criteria used by employers) and we consistently get this kind of issue”

Grattan Institute analyst published in The Australian June 3, 2015

Project Management hard skills are like the 3 R’s

No. 1 reason people quite their jobs is because of their manager – recent Randstad Survey

What was it about the best boss you ever had?

Evolution of organisations

100,000 yrs ago

10,000 yrs ago

1,000 yrs ago

100 yrs ago

10 yrs ago

Tribal

Formal hierarcies

Management brains/Workers hands

Workers are People

Self-management

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“The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is innovative, that

is creative.” “We have to recognise that the disruption

that we see driven by technology, the volatility in change is our friend if we are

agile and smart enough to take advantage of it.”

Empowerment

Culture

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Creativity

Opportunity

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Learning

Its the People Stupid!

How To Apply People-Centric Project Management?

Soft skills training and coaching programTraining of contractorsMerger of project management and change managementImplement people-centric principles, processes, systems

Project Managers are people too!

I Don’t Follow A Methodology…

I Am The Methodology!

The Project LeaderThe Project Leader

Providing people-centric project management through principles, processes, and systems that really improve performance.

Michael Gipters

Reach me at: www.theprojectleader.com