Tag: Successful Project Leaders

How To Manage Up

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Your boss is a human being. To know your boss, treat him or her as a human being. And your boss will treat you as a human being.

If you want to meet with your boss, to know your boss, according to Mary Abbajay, ‘Don’t make up stories about your boss’s silence.’

‘Tell your boss ahead of time what you want to discuss.’

‘Listen to your boss’s ideas and help her sort out external processing.’

‘Make time for face-to-face conversations or pick up the phone and talk to your boss.’

‘Be positive and support new ideas from the outset.’

‘Keep track of new projects and volunteer to lead.’

‘Learn to love facts and support your ideas with evidence.’

‘Meet with your boss regularly and get to know her as a person.’

‘Take initiative. Ask what needs to be done, not how.’

‘Be a team player and show genuine concern for your boss and coworkers.’

‘Avoid venting in front of your boss; find other outlets to express your emotions.’

Source

Mary Abbajay (2018). Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Types of Boss

How To Become A Great Project Manager

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Successful project managers see their primary role as leading the project from living order to geometric order.’

‘The objective of the manager should be to become a practitioner by learning from practice and not by learning about practice.’

‘In a dynamic environment, formulation of objectives must be bound up with action in an interactive and continous process.’

‘To be successful in practicing responsive agility, a project manager must operate within an organizational culture that acknowledges the unavoidability of unexpected events.’

‘Managers who maintain a stationary position may be forced to make complex judgments with incomplete or misleading information.’

‘In order to prevent a major disruption, the project manager must be willing to initiate a change rather than simply respond to events.’

‘Managers in successful projects feel a total personal accountability for results.’

‘Taking initiative while consistently challenging the status quo is one of the key ingredients in developing leadership competence.’

‘Step away from your work for a moment to better understand it, learn from it, and then share what you learned with others.’

‘A world dominated by living order requires moving from a one-size-fits-all paradigm to tailoring the decisions to the context of the specific situation.‘

‘Successful project managers have a hedgehog’s focus on results and fox’s resourcefulness when challenging the status quo is necessary.’

Source

Alexander Laufer, Terry Little, Jeffrey Russell, and Bruce Maas (2018). Becoming a Project Leader: Blending Planning, Agility, Resilience, and Collaboration to Deliver Successful Projects