Make Successful Projects Second Nature for Careers, Teams, and Organizations Lacking Professional Project Management Experience!
Ever wonder why projects (big or small) fail at 70% or higher? Ever realize what main factors are within your control? As your projects go, so goes…your organization! your teams! and your individual careers!
If you want to progress your project work, then you must learn how to assess what your organization knows and supports, what it doesn’t, and what is critical to setup.
If you want to inspire better projects, then do things differently to get different results. Only professional project management (PMP) practices will get you there!
If you want to achieve your professional development goals, then you will pursue opportunities to wholeheartedly participate on Change Project Teams.
Kick your project management (map, plan, and execution) into “high gear”. Make successes the “new norm”. “Get in rhythm”. “Stay on the same page”. Repeat! Individualistic cultures will sabotage you; it will cost way more than it’s worth…
The Secret to Success!
The secret to success on projects is to work as a collaborative cohesive unit to achieve unique outcomes. That’s no small feat, but our programs will guide you!
In stark contrast to the normal failure rate, projects led by a PMP succeed at a rate of 70-80%, but these professionals know it is all about the team. The bigger the project the more organizational support needed. “There is no ‘I’ in Team!”
No matter how many opportunities you have on project teams to progress project work, be prepared so you may help the organization support project teams to make the most of those opportunities and multiply everyone’s success.
Team Preparation + Team Opportunity = Team Success
It isn’t about certification and “book smarts” as much as it is about being project and “people smart”. Both Project Leaders and Project Team members need to:
- Collaborate (Flexible) – Be people-oriented and respect everyone’s input.
- Coordinate (Adaptable) – Be in sync like an orchestra with moving parts.
- Communicate (Versatile) – Be giving and receptive to be on the same page.
Control what you can control. You’re not incompetent, unknowledgeable or anymore unaware than anyone else when navigating “uncharted waters”. Your whole organization is doing things never done before. But you can be prepared!
You should be in this together. At the end of successful projects, you each will be a changed person (not just the project itself). Everyone should experience growth, but most are afraid of change. So, change for the better!
Be the change you want to see in your culture. Improve your work for all. Be a servant leader and a team player. Be willing to lead and follow. Succeed as a team!
The good news is that our project management programs connect everything in a way that guides you through “practical” experiences you can expect on the job.
Solving the Catch 22
(Balancing Functions & Project Adaptations)!
The more disorganized your project management’s form and function takes the more likely things get out of control and people get burnt out. Get ahead of it!
- Most project leaders in today’s business environments have no formal training. These “unofficial” project managers must learn on the job.
- Most organizations won’t get help from external project team professionals.
They rationalize that temporary outside teams don’t know the company as well as insiders who have worked for the organization for years. They have a point!
Unfortunately, this often leads to more chaos, friction, and frustration than not. It’s better if subject area expert team members don’t have to be project managers!
You don’t need to lead out with a professional project team, if your team employs professional project management best practices, but regular functional teams don’t usually know project management. They must learn!
- The less project management knowledge in your organization the more your teams will need to devote time and money to training. But it is worth the investment, if you keep it within reason! And the sooner the better!
If the Organization doesn’t take responsibility to train its’ staff up with project management professional development, then change/project managers (who often already fulfill other middle manager duties) are tasked with doing so “on-the-fly”.
Note: It’s not a realistic obligation in the middle of a project (Especially if said project manager has to teach sponsors and superiors their supporting roles as well.)
“Wearing Too Many Hats
Is Not for Anyone!”
Most, if not all, project managers fall into it, so-to-speak! For me, I was an Operation’s Manager when a couple different organizations with knowledge management, training, and process improvement projects needed me to lead projects. I quickly discovered how ill-equipped we were in project management.
Even after I became certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), I suffered through project failures, but I saw firsthand all that we need to succeed.
Another organization expected me to operate at peak capacity in my functional position while working on a large database transformational project. It was like performing 2 full-time jobs between 8am-5pm. And it did not go well!
A few main reasons for our failures:
- No clear direction on what realistic project success could look like.
- No clear delineation of authority, assignments, and ownership of issues.
- No clear way of work between teammates or even treating it as a team sport.
I entered the organization after the project had already begun, and we were a few years in before we realized the scope creep was growing faster than we were devoting enough attention to, if we wanted to outpace the moving finish line.
“Being A Project Manager
Is Not for Everyone!”
Ultimately, I turned it around when I became co-project manager, not just team member extraordinaire.
- I insisted that we start over. We course corrected with a project charter that set clear expectations to meet well-defined success criteria.
But directing the work, fixing any problems with the work, and doing the work eventually still went back to a one-person job. Yup, it all fell back on me!
- I negotiated for some help on my regular duties, since my co-workers were acting like any project work was beneath them and outside their priorities.
This company was used to operating in silos where everyone knew their function and any excess work from past “technical” debt (like bad entries into the database), as we called it, just became the job of whatever subject area it affected most.
It probably seemed like I just couldn’t keep up with my work. I took it for the team and for the sake of a less valued (due to no “immediate” concern), but very important (long-term) project (at the crux of better supporting future work). And then I just hoped difficult projects, processes, or work activities would get better.
It did not get better. We actually reverted back to haphazardly launching fixer projects for every fire that came up, just as before, rather than being more organized with launching, executing, and completing preventative maintenance projects.
There’s a much better way of project work to propel you, your team, and your business to better returns on your project investments and our “Practical” project management program will show you your project team’s part in making it happen.
You should be able to use project management to get to whatever position in your career, on your business journey, or up the corporate ladder that you aspire to.
“Learning Project Management
Is Valuable Experience!”
Whatever position you have in a company your position could benefit from understanding project management. Organizational projects impact everyone.
Many of us who chose to pursue project management as a career were first tasked with (or suggested) an improvement project, became the project manager, liked the variety project work gave us, and the fulfillment in achieving project results.
At any point, your organization may call on you to be a project manager, team member, lend subject expertise, or just be an “early adopter” of new processes or tools. This is an opportunity to work your way up the ranks. If you do a good job the organization may have more opportunities for growth that you are interested in. You will need to learn the ins and outs of project management to be most effective.
It doesn’t mean you will always have job security at your current place of work, because sometimes jobs end when projects end, but the value you bring to your career experience, especially to organizational projects, is invaluable.
Most colleges do not offer much studies in project management. But project management gives more understanding in practical business experience than most fields of study.
If your current organization doesn’t give you opportunities to prove your ability to manage teams through project management, get more projects, or step into a more permanent higher function, then maybe your next organization will.
If you already hold a position in management, then you should consider getting more workers the management experience they crave by rotating project management duties. This way you don’t have to wait for functional positions to open up and you don’t risk your best employees outgrowing you and moving on.
Personally, I feel all organizations should provide project management professional development training and opportunities to apply it. Unfortunately, most are focused on growing their bottom-line, but not their people.
Going Down the Corporate Ladder from Operations Manager to Project Coordinator and Back Up to Project Manager!
One problem you will find, due to its very nature, is that you almost have to be a “Jack of all trades, Master of none!”
Getting Worse, Before It Gets Better!
There is no right way to become a Project Manager. And yet, I went about it all backwards. If I had it to do all over again, I would do it very differently
I quickly ascended the ranks to become an Operations Manager in the Cataloging Department of a Top 5 Academic Library, probably too quickly, because I lacked experience I needed to move business change projects forward.
Project Management opportunities afforded me the chance to make a bigger difference in an organization, to progress my experience, and it didn’t feel so monotonous. I jumped at the chance to project manage projects with another company onboarding operations and other teams one after the other!
Learning Project Management
In The Worst Way Possible!
One Executive I worked with was impressed with how well I adapted to the fast pace of a corporate environment.
He said I was the best he had ever seen at it. That said, it kind of pulled the curtain back on the “Wizard of Oz” type of magic of the corporate world experience. All our projects left something to be desired in the way of successful quality outcomes.
I knew Organizational Leaders didn’t know everything, but I was shocked by how much they didn’t know, especially about the direction they were directing us to go.
Whenever I heard that the corporate world was “cut-throat”, I just thought that was referring to other people, who couldn’t “cut it” and couldn’t “keep up”.
I was wrong! Corporate work has a bad name for a reason. You know what I am talking about if you have experienced it! But I will sum it up, just for fun…
They often go too fast, and in too many directions for anyone to make sense of it: They cut corners; they shout project managers out of the boardroom when projects that “didn’t stand a chance” are done wrong by everyone at every level, them included; they get rid of people once they use them up and wear them out; and they move people up based on who plays the best politics and takes credit for more than they could possibly know or do, rather than by the merits of their managing skills.
Coming Full Circle
To Make Project’s Work Out!
Good Project Management is the not-so-secret solution to better business practices. At the heart of good business are good relationships. At the heart of good relationships are good business project coordination. It is all about the people!
No two projects are alike! Projects, and the related variables, even require you to be a different kind of project manager from one project to the next. You will learn something new from every project. We adapt so that people will adopt new ways!
There’s no set formula for gaining experience and applying it in your Career or Business Model! Still, the better you go about it from the beginning, the better off you are! You just don’t need to experience everything bad, to know what is good.
I learned that there are good, better, and best ways to project manage, but not until I got certified, performed independent contracting, and applied my knowledge in different places and areas of work. You can connect it all using my programs!
It wasn’t until I made a system of 3-in-1 programs that includes change, and knowledge/improvement management (Also available) did I solve for all the challenges I have come across with organizational project management.
Business is like a game of “Chutes and Ladders”. The average person will change jobs 12-14 times, and change careers 5-6 times during their working life. Learn project management and it will be more like just changing projects.
Become expert at a project approach to business and the ride won’t feel so up and down. You will be comfortable with change and be a steady upward force for all.
Focusing on Team Success Will Bring Your Teams More Project Success Beyond Any Success You Can Ever Achieve Alone!
Project management is all about what you can accomplish when people temporarily align their goals toward a greater good…
Success, Realizing Long-term Results!
I have worked for small, medium, and somewhat large business endeavors.
- People employed of 1-50, 51-500, and 500-1000
I have led and worked on small, medium, and large projects.
- Teams of 1-5, 6-10, and 11-20.
- Durations of 3-12 months, 1-2 years, and 3-4 years.
- Budgets of 10s of thousands, 100s of thousands, and even millions.
We have had successful outcomes from developing trainings, to process improvements and optimizations, to large transformations.
- I became Operations Manager and then led 3 yearly strategic initiative projects for a department of 70+ employees.
- I was Special Projects Coordinator for another company when we launched an offshore Business Process Outsourcer (BPO). There I led several knowledge, training, and onboarding projects as we expanded operations from 0-500 employees in one year.
- I led a large transformation of a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Database to improve development and operational functions in another company communicating specifications to a large manufacturer (5,000+) to produce our products.
And of course, I built my own business that provides amazing individual, team, and organizational programs to give back to business and to improve on our work and our places of work.
Every time, I go back to the same essentials of organizational project management that my program guides will teach you…
Lead the Way to Make
The Most of Project Management!
Nothing beats experience, except using my “Practical” program guide to make yours a better experience…
You will experience a lot of hardship with things that are out of your control if the people you work with and the environments and cultures you work in do not understand where Project Management fits in. But together you can fill those gaps!
Get with your teams and assess your business and project management’s maturity.
Use maps and charts in my programs to align projects with business strategy and professional development of project sponsors, project managers, and project teams.
No program guide can tailor everything to your unique challenges and opportunities, but my program guides will save you years and years of frustration trying to figure everything out that I have already figured out for you.
Even if it doesn’t lead to being a project manager in your organization it will help you work with various areas of work and that will lead to better opportunities…
Check Out Other’s
Thoughts on the Subject!
“Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.” – Joy Gumz
“Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.”
– David Rockwell
“The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about ‘project management.’” – Cornelius Fichtner
“Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.” – Henry Mintzberg
“The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard
“Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even though they rarely stick to their plan.” – Winston Churchill
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
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We Offer You the Essentials
at the Lowest Price!
So, how much does it cost already? Buy today and get the “Practical” Project Management Essential Program at its low introductory price, circled below.
Compare our offer with other offerings…
Comprehensive project management training, including certifications like PMP, can cost anywhere from $800 to $3000+ for training courses, plus exam fees (e.g., $405-$655 for PMP) and potentially PMI membership costs (which is $129 annually).
You can expect similar college-level courses (which are rare) to cost about $550 or more, never mind the average semester cost of $10,000-$30,000 at a traditional school.
(Note: The “practical” project management program guides are not intended to replace certification, but rather to supplement it and take it farther by setting up better environments and real-world best practices to optimize what formal project management can actually do. Likewise, certification does not replace real-world experience the way these guides can be better molded and tailored to fit the variables of your business.).
We are offering it well below market value, so that we can spark the market and get early feedback and testimonials.
The “Practical” Program Guide is just $200 when you buy now…
We are offering this 2-in-1 option of “practical” and “perpetual” programs at this time. So you not only get the most cohesive project management program guide for better project team management, you also get the knowledge and improvement program to further your professionals abilities to best assist on projects as subject experts…
Once the market is aware of the value in this amazing offer, the price will go up so that we can support our solution and further efforts to fix problems with broken educational programs and business systems.
You Will Receive All
Program Features as Follows!
Here’s what you get when you buy the “Practical” Guide today…
Project Management Program
| · Project Management Guide Tutorials
o 6 Video Presentations (Approx. 2 ½ Hours) & QSG o 77 Pages of Instruction Material (21,592 words) § Transcript § Process Maps § Charts § Procedural Lists § Explanations and more to connect the dots… (Essentially, all the illustrative solutions you will need to the greatest problems to progressing knowledge and managing your career along your path.) · 7 Project Management Templates o 1 SWOT & Ishikawa Diagrams o 1 “Stakeholder Assessment” Worksheet o 1 “Stakeholder Engagement Plan” Template o 1 “Stakeholders Charts” Template o 1 “Project Charter” Template o 1 “Gantt Chart” Template o 1 “Communications Plan” Chart |
You Will Receive
Added Features as Follows!
Here are some extras where we went above and beyond for you…
| · 8 Supplemental Project Program Materials
o 5 Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Explanation Documents § “Core Values” § “Implementation Roadmap” § “Lean-Agile Principles” § “SAFe Lean-Agile Principles” § Value Management Office (VMO)” o 1 Scrum Guide “2020” (10 pages) o 1 Agile Manifesto (1 page) o 1 Process Group and Knowledge Area Chart (1 page) · 1 Project Management Document Sample
o 1 Communications Plan Chart
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Benefits as Follows (AND MORE)!
Here is a list of benefits you, your teams, and your organization can expect as a result of employing our program in your work…
| · Improves organizational efficiency
· Better Collaboration · Better Coordination · Better Communication · Better Teamwork · Better People Skills · Better Processes · Better Project Management · Better Use of Tools |
Knowledge Management Program
| · Knowledge Management Guide Tutorials
o 5 Video Presentations (Approx. 1 ½ Hours) & QSG o 52 Pages of Instruction Material (14,874 words) § Transcript § Process Maps § Charts § Procedural Lists § Explanations and more to connect the dots… (Essentially, all the illustrative solutions you will need to the greatest problems to progressing knowledge and managing your career along your path.) · 7 Knowledge & Improvement Templates o 1 “Work In Progress” Spreadsheet o 1 “PDP” Template o 1 “PIP” Template o 1 “EDGE” Template o 1 “Policy” Template o 1 “Process” Template o 1 “Procedure” Template |
You Will Receive
Added Features as Follows!
Here are some extras where we went above and beyond for you…
| · 4 Supplemental Knowledge Program Materials
o 1 Kaizen Continuous Improvement Explanation (12 pages) o 1 Knowledge Management Explanation o 1 Professional Development Plan (PDP) Guide o 1 Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) Guide · 4 Knowledge Base Document Samples
o 1 Policy Sample o 1 Process Sample o 2 Procedure Sample
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You Will Receive All
Benefits as Follows (AND MORE)!
Here is a list of benefits you, your teams, and your organization can expect as a result of employing our program in your work…
| · Improves organizational efficiency
· Increases productivity · Fosters innovation · Streamlines operations · Facilitates decision making · Enhances customer support (knowledge at your fingertips) · Backs up primary roles and critical duties · Supports employee growth and development · Enables better training and fluid workflows · Standardizes processes and procedures · Quickens problem-solving · Reduces duplication of work · Creates more consistency · Limits mistakes · Improves quality · Decreases rework |