Project Management Leadership Practices

Project Success the Nordic Way

Camilla BrenchleyLeading Partner at Norscat

Camilla Brenchley. Norscat: Leading the Nordic Way. www.norscat.com

Objectives

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leadership and provide a better climate for your team

• Deliver better results: How you can provide better leadership and improve team performance


Why listen to me?• 10+ years PM experience.

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• I help companies improve their performance through implementation of Nordic Leadership Practices.


Classic PM ProblemsProject

priorities?

MVPFeature

priorities?

Time lines / features / budget

Translating / Communication

Who thinksthis project isimportant?

Differentdepartment

objectives


What do they have in common?

• Lack of one common goal in the organisation. Departments seem to have different priorities and go in different directions.

• Clarity on the organisational direction and priorities.Not being clearly informed about company direction and priorities makes your job hard.


Giving directions and communicating them effectively to the people in the organisation

Leadership

• Defining a direction: Mission, Vision and Values

• Working towards one common goal: ensures aligned messages.We all have the same overall objective.

• Making the direction relevant to everybody by putting their job into context.

• Continuously communicating direction and priorities by Informing about why we make the decisions we make.

P E R F O R M A N C E

Clarity of direction

C U L T U R E

C L I M A T E

Autonomy

Involvement Challenge

Organisation

Change orientation

Recognition

ProcessesLeadership



We improve performance• The people in the organisation are able to identify what is important. This

allows them to prioritise their work in accordance with company priorities. We increase their efficiency.

• Collaboration across departments improve. Less time spent on conflicts and rework.

• People are more motivated and engaged. They give more of themselves.


CLIMATE

CULTURA

PERFORMANCE


Lead your manager• Investigate company strategy and direction. Make sure you know and are

informed of organisational priorities. Make sure these are relevant to you, iethat they are translated into tangible targets, values and objectives for your department.Explain to your manager why you feel this is important.

• Make sure you know how your project and each element within it, fits into the company direction.Again, make sure this is transmitted to you in a way that is relevant to the project.Ask questions! Ask WHY 5 times!

• Prompt department misalignment (if your company culture welcomes it)


Deliver Better Results• Make sure company direction, priorities and values are relevant to your

team. Make sure you live these in your daily work.

ResponsibilityWe always take ownership of the tasks we work on. This means that we have to constantly develop our skills, continually challenge the way we work and learn from our mistakes.

• To not be the bottleneck.• To be prepared at a meeting with the client.• To be honest about challenges and not be afraid to

ask for help.• To give the client and ourselves a realistic

timeframe, and speak up if we can't make it.• When we show engagement and take initiative.• To contribute to a great working environment.• Ensure that I test my solution before handing it over

to someone else.• To point out if we are not doing things in the best

possible way.


Deliver Better Results• Make sure you share project objectives with your project team.

Translate the objectives into tangible objectives for each individual.

• Make sure your department or project success can be clearly measured. Install one main success KPI and 5 secondary. Is maintaining budget the most important? Or quality?

• Tell each team member why their position and contribution is important. Make them see how they contribute to the organisational direction and objectives.

• Give your team tools to make decisions by telling them why you make the decisions you make. Show them how you keep organisational values and direction in mind.


• By giving directions

• By communicating them effectively


Norscat.com

• Consultancy: 3 months to improve your performance by 10%.

• Workshops: 3 days to ensure a joined up senior team with one common goal.

• Coaching: Helping any leader improve team performance.

Norscat makes companies successful

through Nordic leadership practices.

Questions?


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