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Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams
By: Janet A. Means , Tammy AdamseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Jossey-Bass
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Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. The authors will help you understand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions to get real work done during a project and get it done better and more efficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. In addition, the book includes: Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge to accelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensure their quality as they are built A work session structure for planning, delivering, and following up facilitated work sessions Guides for building key project deliverables Sample agendas Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams | |
| Release Date: 08-05-2005 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams
Chapter One
Old Dogs and New TricksAn expert is a fellow who is afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore. -HARRY S TRUMAN
WHEN WAS THE last time you tried something new? Applied a new concept or technique in your daily work? Brushed your teeth in the morning with the opposite hand?
Not comfortable with too much change? Join the crowd. Too much change or change poorly conceived and administered is just as damaging as clinging to the status quo. But you already know that because in one way or another, you're involved with projects, and projects are all about change. So how do we know what to change, when to change, how to change? And how do we embrace change and internalize it effectively?
The Context for Change
Peter Senge in his book The Fifth Discipline (1990) suggests that to thrive, companies must be willing to become learning organizations; people must cultivate a mind-set that embraces learning, acquiring knowledge, and applying it intelligently to the challenges of their workplace. Senge describes learning organizations as "organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together" (p. 3).
Any company that intends to remain healthy and competitive in an increasingly global and electronic marketplace must be willing to change, and it must do so based on solid learning and careful appli
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