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  The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership
 
 
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Jack Ferraro

©2008, hardcover, 362pp., Auerbach Publications/Center for Business Practices

Today's organizations face the challenge of quickly implementing strategies. Project and program managers are at the forefront of spearheading this effort. In addition to successfully managing projects, they must also create and lend their leadership to an environment conducive to implementing strategy. This volume enables managers to develop the competencies and skills essential to leadership. It offers a practical framework that enables them to take charge of their own career development, while mastering the new role of strategy leader.

The Strategic Project Leader explores the attitudes and behaviors of successful leaders to provide project managers with actionable advice on how to foster and grow leadership skills. It's a practical guide to developing a project manager’s personal competencies and leadership skills, presenting checklists and assessments that enable project managers to self-direct their leadership training.
 
Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • How to Use This Book
  • Introducing: A New Kind of Project Leader
  • Author
  • Section 1: The New Project Leader
    • Leadership in Project Management: A Defining Moment
    • Emergence of the Service-Based Project Leader
    • Trends in Project Management
    • Project Management Certifications: The Leadership Angle
    • Professionalism and the Project Manager
    • Trends Favoring the Service-Based Project Leader
    • Discovering the New Project Leader in You
    • Finding Meaning in Creating, Rather than Problem Solving
    • Making the Commitment
  • Section 2: The MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Framework
    • Competence: The Foundation of Leadership
    • The Customer's Perception of Your Project: Stakeholder Management
    • The Strengths of a Service-Based Project Leader: The MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Pyramid
    • Building Your Base—Knowledge, Skills, Experience
    • Building Subject Matter Expertise
    • Trust-Based Relationships
    • Consultative Leadership: Becoming a Service-Based Project Leader
    • Courage
  • Section 3: Self-Directed Project Leadership Development
    • The Conscious Leader
    • Commitment to Leadership: Taking Control
    • Acquiring and Assessing Project Leadership Skills
    • Practicing to Be a Service-Based Project Leader
    • Serving Your Community as Teacher and Student
    • Communities of Practice
    • Developing Your Action Plan
  • Section 4: Understanding Assessments, by Roberta F. Hill
    • Introduction to Assessments for Project Leaders
    • What?! My Boss Wants Me to Take a 360-Degree: What You Need to Know
    • Team Effectiveness
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Index

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