leadership and project management concepts

Connecting Leadership & Project Management Concepts

Susan Gravess.graves@sbcglobal.net

Beyond the PMO

Statistics show change failure as high asBut your company is exceptional with a success rate of 70%

Is ?30%failure good

If your company fails to execute, is it just a collection of failed projects ?

What’s wrong?

Where does the problem really start

?

Is it strategic or tactical?

If your organization can’t do what you think you’re asking….

Do you think they know what you’re asking ?

Things to ponder

If you asked your management team to summarize your strategy on a sticky...

Would everyone say the same thing?

Would they say anything?

How about staff?

What would YOU write?

If your job was an elected position,

how would it change your approach to

human capital management

?

What else?

Never enough people

The pros and cons approach

“I have found great advantage from this kind of equation in what may be called moral or prudential algebra.

Benjamin Franklin, 1772

Never enough resources

It’s difficult to get functional areas to look outside of their environment

It’s complicated

“Where id was, there ego shall be

Sigmund Freud

Now what?

Build foundation

Do proceed with the end in mind

Just make sure others can see it

Yes, you can change the culture,

because you

are the

culture

Align,

not assign

Yes, be agile

but don’t forget that you have prior successes from which to draw

embrace change,&

Make decisions wisely

Do you need a PMO?

Sometimes it’s about the decision you make,

but it’s always about how you implement it

If you build it,

will it show value?

Educate

We used to call project managers supervisors, managers, and directors

!

Nice idea,

but what

does it do

?

Location

Location

Location!

Hire the right people

VisionCulture

AlignProcess

History

Build

?Make sense