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- Have you ever wondered why traditional leadership often fails in horizontal workplaces, and what specific people skills you need to bridge the gap?
- What if you could master the art of confronting underperformers and boosting motivation without creating conflict or resentment?
- What’s the secret to pushing your team through the fear of failure and turning high-pressure situations into predictable successes?
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Key Takeaways from The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management
- Understand why modern businesses have shifted from a traditional top-down pyramid to a horizontal 'wedge' structure and how this impacts your leadership role.
- Learn how to use the organizational wedge model as a diagnostic tool to categorize workplace problems and know exactly when to escalate complex issues to management.
- Discover how to pinpoint the root causes of individual performance issues using the ERAM model: Expectations, Resources, Ability, and Motivation.
- Master the crucial difference between friendship and friendliness to maintain your authority and effectively handle ethical quandaries without alienating your team.
- Find out how to move past outdated command-and-control tactics to successfully align individual employee psychology with your organization's overarching strategic objectives.
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The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management
Organizational Structure & Dynamics
The Wedge Model
Problem Diagnosis
Diagnosing Individual Performance
The ERAM Model
The Prescription
Professional Boundaries
Friendly vs. Friends
Enforcing Rules
Inclusiveness & Motivation
The Loop
Personality Types
The 'We' Mentality
Managing Attitudes
The Ice Cream Lesson
SCOOP Praise
Keeping the Cone Up
Tackling Poor Performance
Overcoming Avoidance
Past-Present-Future Model
Guiding Behavior & Values
Ends vs. Means
Nudging Behavior
Four Consequences
Managing Fear & Risk
The Black Box Effect
Controlling Anxiety
Managing Up (The Boss)
Mutual Dependence
Increasing Visibility
The Halo Effect
Meeting Efficiency
The 80 Percent Rule
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 11
How does the author describe the structural shift in modern businesses compared to traditional corporations?
The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Team leaders' roles have changed as companies have grown increasingly less hierarchical today.
Chapter 3: The wedge model is an excellent tool for visualizing and managing team performance.
Chapter 4: Effective team leaders know the difference between friendship and friendliness.
Chapter 5: Successful teams are defined by their emphasis on inclusion.
Chapter 6: Attitudes matter, and there’s an art to managing them.
Chapter 7: Addressing poor performance is tricky, but it can be done effectively with the Past-Present-Future Model.
Chapter 8: Ends don’t justify means, and lasting success requires focus on team behavior.
Chapter 9: Risk-takers know that you can’t defeat fear, but you can manage it.
Chapter 10: Effective team leaders grasp the importance of managing their bosses.
The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management Summary & Overview
The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management (2018) is a hands-on guide designed to help team leaders diagnose and solve people problems in today’s increasingly horizontal workplaces. The fruit of years of first-hand experience, Zachary Wong’s playbook for effective leadership is packed full of actionable advice on how to boost motivation, confront underperformers and push through fear of failure.
Who Should Listen to The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management?
- Entrepreneurs
- Leaders and managers
- Anyone fascinated by workplace psychology
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