Project Team Leadership and Communication

Project team leadership is challenging.Youve been self-motivated your whole life. Youve mastered the skills and technical expertise required by your field. Your colleagues and peers respect you as a professional and a friend. But nothing has prepared you for the host of challenges that come with leading a team: oppressive schedules demanding customers and people who just cant seem to get to work. This book takes a step-by-step approach in helping you to understand how to fulfil the expectations of a team leader -from gaining a basic grasp of what makes a project a project -to techniques in estimating time and creating schedules -to how to properly communicate reports metrics and numbers in a way thats relevant to those who care about your project.Youll learn how to: Understand the principles of leadership and how they apply to you as a professional and those you work withProperly prioritize tasks project schedules and customer demandsAnalyze and manage the expectations of those important to the project through consistent planned communicationBuild trust foster commitment and manage conflict within your teamIdentify and stop common project issues in their tracksand much moreThis edition features expanded resources including key terms and definitions review questions and exercises and practical immediately applicable tools that accompany each chapter. Additionally an appendix explaining Agile Methods and how modern project teams can benefit from new ways of organizing and performing project work is included. Instructional resources are available at lintwood.com/ProjectLeadership