The Manager's Pocket Guide to Team Sponsorship

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Team Sponsorship
Author: Sara Pope
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874254211

Ideal for team leaders or managers who must form and manage teams, this guide provides helpful guidelines for turning the principles of team management into day-to-day actions. Covers steps in forming and managing natural, ad-hoc, and standing teams.

Change Management Pocket Guide

Change Management Pocket Guide
Author: Peter F Gallagher
Publisher: PFG Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre:
ISBN:

Change Management Pocket Guide: This pocket guide contains over thirty concepts, models, figures, assessments, tools, templates, checklists, plans, a roadmap and glossary structured around the ten-step a2B Change Management Framework®. About this Book: This pocket guide is a practical, hands-on guide built around the a2B Change Management Framework® (a2BCMF®) with over thirty models, tool and change concepts. It is designed to support change practitioners delivering hands-on organisational change. The pocket guide supports a programme approach to organisational change, starting with ‘change definition’ (strategy alignment) and moving through to ‘closing and sustain’ the change. The ten-step a2BCMF® is supported by over thirty concepts, a change adoption model, a behavioural change model, figures, assessments, tools, templates, checklists and plans, as well as a roadmap and glossary. It covers the key change management concepts such as sponsorship, communications, readiness, resistance and adoption. The assessments provide valuable input on whether the team should progress from one critical a2BCMF® step to the next. Other Leadership of Change® Volumes: Leadership of Change® Volumes: The volumes in this series are intended to be leading practice in organisational change management and implementation, which supports strategy execution. Volume 1 – Change Management Fables Volume 3 - a2B Change Management Handbook Change Management Fables: Ten fables about the leadership paradox of implementing organisational change management versus delivering normal day-to-day operations. About this Book: Leaders go about their daily task of implementing the organisation’s strategy to deliver financial results. All of a sudden there is a change explosion that disrupts normal day-to-day operations. This is the leadership paradox: implementing change versus delivering day-to-day operations. Leaders then need to adjust their focus to implement the change, so that the organisation stays ahead of the competition and continues to deliver revenue to its shareholders Change Management Handbook: This handbook contains over fifty concepts, models, figures, assessments, tools, templates, checklists, plans, a roadmap and glossary structured around the ten-step a2B Change Management Framework® each with a practical case study. About this Book: This handbook is for growth mindset leaders, senior managers, students, HR professionals and change management practitioners who want to deliver organisational change while their organisation continues with day-to-day operations.

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Strategic and Business Planning

The Manager's Pocket Guide to Strategic and Business Planning
Author: Stephen G. Haines
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874255157

Enterprises in today's Global Information Age must keep up with rapid changes in technology while overhauling businesses, programs, and operations to meet the changing values and demands of customers and employees. This guide will aid you in applying the Systems Thinking Approach to your strategic and business planning by explaining how to develop a strategic plan, ensure successful implementation of the plan, and build and sustain high performance over the long haul.

Team Planning for Project Managers and Business Analysts

Team Planning for Project Managers and Business Analysts
Author: Gail Levitt
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466578653

Supplying busy project professionals with time-tested tips and templates for developing teams efficiently and effectively, Team Planning for Project Managers and Business Analysts provides the planning materials required to increase team collaboration and productivity in a global workplace.This comprehensive resource offers insights and access to c

On-demand Learning

On-demand Learning
Author: Darin E. Hartley
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874255393

The prevalent on-demand services that are available in other walks of life must be adapted to the education and learning field if training departments are to be successful in the new millennium. The book includes a comprehensive profile of the on-demand learner and a checklist for action for purveyors of learning and identifies strategies to maximize the effectiveness of on-demand learning solutions and provides ways to match learners with solutions that work.

Liftoff

Liftoff
Author: Diana Larsen
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1680503847

Ready, set, liftoff! Align your team to one purpose: successful delivery. Learn new insights and techniques for starting projects and teams the right way, with expanded concepts for planning, organizing, and conducting liftoff meetings. Real-life stories illustrate how others have effectively started (or restarted) their teams and projects. Master coaches Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies have successfully "lifted off" numerous agile projects worldwide. Are you ready for success? Every team needs a great start. If you're a business or product leader, team coach or agile practice lead, project or program manager, you'll gain strategic and tactical benefits from liftoffs. Discover new step-by-step instructions and techniques for boosting team performance in this second edition of Liftoft. Concrete examples from our practices show you how to get everyone on the same page from the start as you form the team. You'll find pointers for refocusing an effort that's gone off in the weeds, and practices for working with teams as complex systems. See how to scale liftoffs for multiple teams across the enterprise, address the three key elements for collaborative team chartering, establish the optimal conditions for learning and improvement, and apply the GEFN (Good Enough for Now) rule for efficient liftoffs. Throughout the book are stories from real-life teams lifting off, as seasoned coaches describe their experiences with liftoffs and agile team chartering. Focused conversations help the team align, form, and build enough trust for collaborating. You'll build a common understanding of the teams' context within business goals. Every liftoff is unique, but success is common!

ISO 21500 Guidance on project management - A Pocket Guide

ISO 21500 Guidance on project management - A Pocket Guide
Author: Anton Zandhuis
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9087537700

This pocket guide explains the content and the practical use of ISO 21500 - Guidance on project management, the latest international standard for project management, and the first of a family of ISO standards for project, portfolio and program management. ISO 21500 is meant for senior managers and project sponsors to better understand project management and to properly support projects, for project managers and their team members to have a reference for comparing their projects to others and it can be used as a basis for the development of national standards. This pocket guide provides a quick introduction as well as a structured overview of this guidance and deals with the key issues within project management: Roles and responsibilities Balancing the project constraints Competencies of project personnel All ISO 21500 subject groups (themes) are explained: Integration, Stakeholder, Scope, Resource, Time, Cost, Risk, Quality, Procurement and Communication. A separate chapter explains the comparison between, ISO 21500 and PMBOK® Guide PRINCE2, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma and other methods, practices and models. Finally, it provides a high level description of how ISO 21500 can be applied in practice using a generic project life cycle. Proper application of this new globally accepted project management guideline will support organizations and individuals in growing their project management maturity consistently to a professional level.

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide

Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide
Author: Rath & Strong
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2003-03-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071436332

The companion follow-up to one of the bestselling Six Sigma books ever published An alarming number of Six Sigma projects are failing--not because of misuse of Six Sigma's statistical tools but because of internal politics and poor communication between team members and the rest of the organization. The Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Team Pocket Guide helps team leaders and members reverse this trend, explaining the interpersonal and political skills needed to make each Six Sigma project a success. Written in the "pocket guide" format that proved so successful with the first Rath &Strong guide, and based on the firm's popular Six Sigma training workshops, this handy reference will show Six Sigma team leaders and members how to: Get buy-in and cooperation from all levels of the organization Lead or participate in productive team meetings Plan the people/team side just as they would plan the technical side

Praxis® – A Pocket Guide

Praxis® – A Pocket Guide
Author: Emma Jones
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401802807

This pocket guide has been designed to familiarize readers with the principles, goals, tools and techniques of the Praxis framework. It provides an overview of the Praxis process models and management functions, and an understanding of the interpersonal skills required of a P3 (project, program, portfolio) manager. The content of this pocket guide is derived from the Praxis framework.org website, which is available free of charge under a Creative Commons license. APM, the Association for Project Management, has also published the Praxis Framework. Praxis is a framework for the management of projects, programs and portfolios (P3M). The Praxis framework brings together a body of knowledge, methodology, competence framework and capability maturity model into a single integrated framework with a single structure and terminology. No more need for mapping and translation between different guides. There is no such thing as a typical project, program or portfolio and Praxis is not prescriptive in the way its components are applied. The framework is designed to provide building blocks of the discipline of P3 management that can be tailored and assembled to suit all manner of different contexts. The aim is to define the building blocks and is based on the concept of a functional analysis. A key concept of Praxis is that the dividing lines between projects, programmes and portfolios are blurred. Some ventures will exhibit characteristics of all three. The underlying principle is that the terms project, programme and portfolio simply represent points on a continuum that is described by the complexity of the work being managed. Therefore, wherever appropriate, a function is described in terms of its general application and then by its adaptation to increasing complexity. The Knowledge section integrates with all the other sections of Praxis. Each function describes the procedures, tools and techniques that can be used in management processes. In return the Method section provides a structure for the use of the functions within the lifecycle.

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People

675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People
Author: Laurel Alexander
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599960532

Increase your understanding of facilitation and learn interventions and exercises you can use with others. This resource manual provides managers, trainers and consultants a format based on the core skills facilitators need to develop as well as the issues they will face at work. The Fast Facilitator shows the difference facilitation skills can make in helping people learn, be more self-aware, be more flexible in their thinking and behavior and build their self-confidence. The manual is organized into three parts covering a huge amount of groundwork: Essential facilitation, group and team faci.