Project Leadership - Ravi Bhatia: Recent Episodes
Ravi Bhatia
Project Leadership Guru's (PLG's) mission is to enable project success for the global project management community. Our global platform welcomes people who are passionate about project management and who embrace project leadership as a pathway to achieve excellence in the delivery of their projects. PLG serves as a forum to drive project leadership principles by providing the tools, resources and best practices needed to drive project management innovation and excellence.
The understanding of contracts and contracts management is fundamental to our role as Project Leaders.
Higher order project leadership demands that we manage external and internal expectations. This requires a thoughtful approach to understanding expectations that are often not explicitly stated.
The 9 Cs ladder provides us with a path towards effective project leadership based on servant-leadership.
Connecting with your team members requires that you recognize their need for expression, joy and relevance, I challenge you to connect with your people in a meaningful way.
PODCAST #16 > Conflict Management & the Role of the Project Leader
Conflict is inevitable on projects and is to be expected in any enterprise where economic resources are limited and constraints exists. The question is not whether or not conflict is bad or good; the question must be about how we actively manage conflict to achieve project and organizational success.
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The Project Leader is a person who understands that the nature of leadership is sacrifice and serving the team. This requires putting the team ahead of personal ego and glory. There is no other path to true leadership.
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Multitasking is a myth. As project managers, we've heard that we need to be great multitaskers to be effective. This is not true and there is a ample research demonstrating the flaws of the multitasking approach.
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As project managers, we fear the dreaded monthly project review meeting with executive management. Why? What can we do as organizations to ensure that project reviews are constructive, transparent and driven by an intent to improve the project, and not as a forum for blame and punishment!
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Project Management as evolved considerably since its inception as a discipline in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, progressive companies and organizations that have achieved a high-degree of project management maturity have recognized the PM as CEO of the Project.
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Project Leaders must provoke a higher order thinking about the effective management of complex projects in an arena, which is increasingly competitive; where owners and stakeholders continue to raise the bar; and where competitive pressures are great. Project leadership is about enabling teams to reach their potential in a manner that is aligned with the goals of project sponsor and its stakeholders.
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As project managers, we must remain fully aware of the importance of listening.
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Software project management is not for the weak or timid and it is not a walk in the park. I learned this the hard way many years ago on a software implementation project for a large transit system. Most of my prior experience had been on building construction projects, so I found it to be a humbling experience. Software management can be a nasty affair which words cannot fully describe.
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The destructive effect of EGO in project management cannot be understated. It erodes trust and undermines project success by diminishing human potential, throttling innovation and reducing employee engagement.
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We hope and pray that you are safe and healthy and that collectively, we will have the strength, courage and compassion to overcome this crisis together.
COVID-19 #crisis #hope #compassion
Our experience informs us that project managers work in complex environments. Complexity on projects manifests itself in six major forms: Organizational, Technological, Contractual, Environmental, Supply Chain and Communication. #complexity #contracts #management #projectmanagement
Information is at the core of project management. How we filter, categorize, dissect, share, report and critically evaluate information is central to our ability to succeed as project managers. #information #informationmanagement #projectmanagement #criticalthinking
The ability to achieve self-awareness and social awareness is central to a project manager's success. This requires a high degree of situational management and requires going from a reactive to a proactive mode. Emotionally intelligent project managers stay focused on the big picture and on nurturing relationships. Ultimately, the leap from project management to project leadership is largely dictated by our ability to become emotionally intelligent. #leadership #emotionalintelligence #awareness #projectmanagement
The Importance of Alignment in Project Management - Aligning our project with the organization's strategic goals is critical building an excellent project organization. #projectleadership #projectmanagement