apm people sig - 'the leadership challenge', 22nd october 2015
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The Leadership
Challenge
Russel Jamieson - Chair People SIG
Eleri Evans -
Leadership
Definition
“Leadership is the ability to establish vision and direction, to
influence and align others towards a common purpose, and
to empower and inspire people to achieve success.”
APM BoK 6th edition
Where’s the Challenge? Diverse stakeholders
Transient teams
Inconsistent levels of support/interest
New and novel products
New and novel methods
New customers
New suppliers
Diverse/conflicting Political and politicalagendas
Human Nature
Why programmes
succeed
Why programmes
succeed
Experience of large numbers of
major programmes
This may affect other programmes
B ELIEF
Programme failure
The programme remembers the business
is usually correct
The programme remembers the business
is usually correct
Front Line Failure
Business and main supplier are aligned Business and main
supplier are aligned
Objectives of business and main supplier
allowed to drift apart
• Failure to recognise what drives supplier and customer
• Zero - sum game – not win - win
• Building individual defences, rather than mutual success
No Alignment
Programme management with a focus on benefits
delivery
Programme management with a focus on benefits
delivery
Dependencies and Risks
are documented not managed
Tacit assumption of slippage
Milestones are too distant to
highlight slippage
Decision making process that makes decisions and sticks
to them
Decision making process that makes decisions and sticks
to them
End Goal is clearly defined and understood
End Goal is clearly defined and understood
Failure occurs when money
Runs out
Too few islands of stability
No contingency
planning
Leaders Lay the Foundations of Programme Success
What are we going to cover
Is it easy to identify good leaders?
– What does a project leader look like?
– Leadership Styles
– Personal Values and personal leadership approaches
– Emotional Intelligence
– Personal Resilience
So What does a Project Leader look like?
Where do you Stand?
PPM Leadership To be a successful leader you
need:
– The right level of training and
capabilities
– A network of peers to support you
– Continuous professional development
– To learn from experience
– Confidence in your professional
heuristics
– A set of tools to assist you
– Determination and resilience
To be a successful leader
you must:
Support your colleagues through:
– Capability building and training
– Providing peer support
– Encouraging ongoing learning
– Sharing your experiences
– Help create more Master Builders
– Share your tools and how best to
use them
– Mentoring and coaching
Why Should Others Follow? Do You:
Promote and uphold the project vision, reinforce positive relationships, build an environment that supports effective team work, raise morale and empower and inspire others to follow throughout the lifecycle of the project?
Determine what leadership style is appropriate for particular situations, individual or group, and adapt your style as appropriate?
Create an environment which encourages high performance and enables team members to reach their full potential?
Gain the trust, confidence and commitment of others and utilise collaboration throughout the lifecycle to ensure continued momentum of the project?
Build and maintain the motivation of the team throughout the project?
Agree SMART performance objectives for the team and individuals which are regularly reviewed and monitored to provide prompt and constructive feedback? and
Identify and address development needs of the team and self?
APM Competence Framework – BC03 Leadership
Why do Others Follow? Never forget followers
have their own identity
Rational
Hopes of gaining money, status,
power, or entry into a meaningful
enterprise and our fears that we
will miss out if we don’t.
Unconscious
Motivations
These lie outside the realm of our
awareness and, therefore, beyond
our ability to control them.
Leadership Styles
Autocratic
Bureaucratic
Democratic
Laissez Faire
More Leadership Styles
Transformational
Transactional Creative
Corrective
Servant
Personal Values and Personal
Leadership Styles
Scenario 1: Late Delivery
Scenario 2: Corporate Hospitality
Emotional Intelligence
The five domains
Knowing your emotions
Managing your own emotions
Motivating yourself
Recognising and understanding other people's emotions
Managing relationships.
Daniel Goleman's - Emotional Intelligence
Personal Resilience
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face
of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant
sources of stress — such as family and relationship
problems, serious health problems or workplace and
financial stressors. It means "bouncing back" from
difficult experiences.
American Psychological Association
Personal Reflection
What’s my identity as a leader ?
What’s my Identity as a follower ?
Am I Emotional Intelligence ?
Is there balance in my personal resilience,
performance and wellbeing ?
Talent
spotting and
recruitment
POTENTIAL
New Capabilities are
Needed for our PPM
Leaders of the Future
You may be interested in:
People SIG
Research
In summary
Is it easy to identify good leaders?
– What does a project leader look like?
– Leadership Styles
– Personal Values and personal leadership approaches
– Emotional Intelligence
– Personal Resilience
RICS APM Conference London 12th February 2016
APM Presents University of Warwick 17th March 2016
Different Way of Learning Comedy school - TBC
Upcoming Events
Invitation: Join us at the People SIG
Leadership
Teamwork
Sponsorship
Collaboration
Communication
Contact ….
– APM People SIG
– Russel Jamieson [email protected]
– Eleri Evans [email protected]
https://twitter.com/PeopleSIG (@PeopleSIG)
https://www.apm.org.uk/group/apm-people-specific-interest-group
A Final Thought